Before today, Waymo has welcomed new riders incrementally in the city, and now it’s opening it up to everyone.

SB 915 would have allowed California municipalities to restrict and tax AV companies, similar to how taxi companies are regulated in the state. 

Neya Systems and AUVSI say there is a growing need for standardized evaluation and certification of uncrewed ground vehicles.

Wayve says PRISM-1 enables scalable, realistic re-simulations of complex scenes with minimal engineering or labeling input. 

Waabi, which has been developing self-driving trucks using generative AI, plans to put its systems on Texas roads in 2025.

To date, General Motors has invested more than $8 billion into Cruise, and in 2023 alone, the company lost $3.48 billion.

Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX can generate synthetic data for robotics, says NVIDIA, which is presenting over 50 research papers at CVPR.

Beep discusses its pilot of Miki shuttles with Sustainability Partners and the Honolulu DoT at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

May Mobility’s pilot will run six days per week, and operate across 68 stops in 11 square miles of downtown Detroit. There will be human safety operators inside each vehicle.

Software update corrects an error in the software that “assigns a low damage score” to telephone poles and updates the company’s map.

Waymo plans to widen its robotaxi service area, while Zoox said it will begin testing autonomous vehicles in two more cities.

Foresight will integrate its ScaleCam 3D perception technology with KONEC into a conceptual autonomous driving vehicle. 

Volvo says its autonomous truck is the result of years of research into self-driving vehicle technology and intentional design.

Stratom says its system will be able to lift, load, unload, and transport palletized 463L tactile cargo across operating environments.

As Aptiv pulls back its support in Motional, Hyundai has invested nearly $1 billion in the driverless vehicle developer this year.

Vogt said that the company has already raised $150 million but didn’t give many details on plans for service robots.

While most autonomous vehicles work by extensively mapping out the areas they drive in, Wayve uses deep learning techniques to allow its cars to drive anywhere.

Outrider has obtained a U.S. patent for ‘Systems and Methods for Determining an Articulated Trailer Angle’ with its self-driving yard trucks.

Matt Casella from Richtech Robotics introduces the Adam AI-powered robot, and Chris Padwick from John Deere discusses training machine learning for perception.

March 2024 robotics funding was buoyed by significant investment into software and drone suppliers.

Cruise is taking its first steps towards restarting its robotaxi operations after it paused all operations nationwide in October 2023.

The first devices in AMD Versal Series 2 target high-efficiency for AI Engines, and Subaru is one of its first customers.