Jul 8, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Forests
Airborne Light Detection and Ranging, called LiDAR, has used aircraft lasers to map large forested areas for over 30 years, but high costs and lack of color images have made it a less efficient resource for describing tree variation at smaller scales. Since 2010,...
Jul 1, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
Researchers from Baidu Research Robotics and Auto-Driving Lab (RAL) and the University of Maryland, College Park, have introduced an autonomous excavator system (AES) that can perform material loading tasks for a long duration without any human intervention while...
Jun 17, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors’ plan back in March 2020 was to invest $20 billion over five years in electric and autonomous vehicles. That money would go toward building and equipping factories, engineering expenses, and other development costs. At the time, GM aimed to sell...
Jun 17, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Robots, Transit
FedEx says it will test package deliveries using autonomous vehicles under a new multi-year partnership with Nuro, a leading self-driving startup. Why it matters: The explosion of e-commerce has accelerated demand for reliable, autonomous transportation throughout the...
Jun 10, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
The self-driving vehicle industry may be young, just a bit over a decade old, but already a meaningful trend is taking shape: it’s proving to be more open to women CEOs and founders–including women of color–than the broader tech industry and for U.S. companies...
Jun 10, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Volkswagen’s latest idea is to offer autonomous vehicle rides on a pay-per-use basis. Similar to robotaxis, the automotive OEM would offer the service as a new way to generate revenue from those consumers who are unwilling or unable to buy a self-driving car on their...
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