Fleets and Trucks

In the two-year, $50-million project, Kodiak will develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other high-risk missions.

The University of Tulsa is the latest campus to offer robot delivery service, adding to a Grubhub partnership announced in October for the pioneer that “invented the delivery robot in 2014.”

Funding will support the Sheffield University spin-out’s radical new approach using Antimony to dramatically improve performance over silicon-based sensors, the new architecture being ten times more sensitive and with 50% more range compared to equivalent sensors.

The race towards autonomous road transport is gaining pace, with truck maker Scania and partner TuSimple now testing autonomous hub-to-hub transport in busy, open-road conditions.

Deep dive: A strong business case and less complex driving mean that self-driving trucks may have many market advantages over other autonomous vehicles.

The new advance helps Waymo determine weather conditions close to its autonomous vehicles to guide and improve performance.

At CES 2023, carbon nanomaterial developer Canatu and Covestro will showcase a joint lidar heater demonstrator using flexible transparent film heaters, thermoplastic polymers, and film insert molding processing.

The startup is using its Ottobot autonomous robots with Pittsburgh International Airport’s xBridge innovation unit for a contactless delivery robot pilot project for staff and passengers and on first-mile supply chain automation with Posten Norge for the future of the logistics delivery.

More power and less energy consumption are benefits cited Continental for its assisted driving using Ambarella’s CV3 system-on-chip technology, with the announced selection following others from AI chip company from Inceptio and Invo Tech.

The company is on a mission to reimagine how AI learns by using synthetic data critical for scaling an autonomous future more quickly.