The Industry Innovation Report
Despite a Drop in How Many Companies Are Testing Autonomous Driving on California Roads, Miles Driven Are Way Up
Fewer companies tested autonomous vehicles on California’s public roads last year versus the one before — and yet they logged nearly twice as many miles driven, according to data released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. On Wednesday, the...
Jaguar Land Rover Says All of Its Cars Will Come with Nvidia’s Drive Computers by 2025
Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with Nvidia to install high-powered computers in its vehicles to enable advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving features. Starting in 2025, all JLR vehicles will come with Nvidia’s end-to-end Drive Hyperion platform installed,...
Don’t Underestimate General Motors in Autonomous Driving
Tesla gets a vast majority of the attention in the autonomous driving space, but there are a lot of other companies vying for market share long term. Alphabet's subsidiary Waymo is one of the market leaders, and Niro is already delivering pizzas autonomously in...
Artificial Intelligence Challenges What It Means To Be Creative
When British artist Harold Cohen met his first computer in 1968, he wondered if the machine might help solve a mystery that had long puzzled him: How can we look at a drawing, a few little scribbles, and see a face? Five years later, he devised a robotic artist...
Ibex Investors’ Newest Fund is Betting on a Mobility Revolution
When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility...
Army-Led Hackathon Awards Cash to Autonomous Off Road Vehicle Developers
Self-driving cars are the buzzing news of the future of automobiles, but the Army has a bigger problem – getting tactical vehicles to drive over rough terrain autonomously. To get after that challenge a Pentagon-driven “innovation network” held a hackathon Thursday...
Robot Photos Appear Show Melted Fuel at Fukushima Reactor
A remote-controlled robot has captured images of what appears to be mounds of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Thursday. A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011...
ESA Drone Carries Satellite Navigation Receivers to Collect Data
ESA's Navigation Laboratory has a new recruit: this drone can carry different types of satellite navigation receivers to collect data for follow-on analysis. The NavLab, based at ESA's ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the testing,...
Shared Mobility Company Goto Global Going Public Through Shell Company Merger
GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car-sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. The merger is expected to...
Welcome to Waabi World, the ‘Ultimate Simulator’ for AVs
Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, promised an “AI-centric approach” to autonomous vehicles when she founded her own company last year, Waabi. Now, she’s ready to deliver on that promise with the announcement of the...
