Fleets and Trucks

Its latest deployment, designed to serve older adults in Sun City, adds to the company’s recent Moovit deal aimed at delivering shared AV solutions and launch of its third-generation AV system, as it prepares to launch driverless commercial operations by the end of the year.

The new terminal is the first of a network to help support Aurora’s planned autonomous trucking service.

The company's fifth-generation truck ditches a central sensor bar for side-mirror-mounted sensor pods.

The new collaboration will help Oxbotica simulate and test its autonomous vehicle operating system.

In recent updates from the autonomous vehicle technology company, CEO Chris Urmson talks about the $700 billion freight opportunity, how the Aurora Driver is nearing the critical feature-complete milestone, and the progress toward a planned Aurora Horizon commercial launch by the end of 2024.

The new project, aimed at bringing automated terminal tractors to series production, adds to Fernride’s work with HHLA Next for highly automated and electric container logistics, both aimed at using autonomous driving and teleoperated technology within live operations.

U.S. self-driving trucking company Plus and Italian vehicle maker Iveco are starting public road testing of their jointly developed highly automated trucks in Germany, with plans to expand tests to Austria, Italy and Switzerland in coming months.

The Pittsburgh Robotics Network’s partnership with Innovation Works-led Robotics Factory funded by Build Back Better Regional Challenge grants is just the latest of the non-profit’s efforts aimed at boosting the region’s robotics and autonomy technology leadership and new business opportunities.

Its CAVstar automated driving systems for two UK-funded test projects, with one for an HVS-led effort to deliver a world-first, autonomous hydrogen-electric heavy good vehicle for the UK market, and the other looks at accelerating autonomous bus development complex traffic flows in Scotland.

The software startup’s top execs talked to Inside Autonomous Vehicles about how their new Hammerhead devkit shown at CES enables its customers to rapidly integrate the company’s game-changing stereo-vision technology for autonomous vehicles and other machines.