Machine Control & Robotics

New AI-driven technology helps autonomous trucks perform key cargo yard operation.

Two battery-powered autonomous trucks will help transport containers in the United Kingdom’s biggest, busiest port.

Targeted for production by 2025, the Kibb represents a product expansion for the Swedish maker of electric two-wheelers, with the semi-autonomous four-wheeler designed to handle light agricultural tasks autonomously with minimal impact to delicate ecosystems.

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.

New Holland’s T8 series, the world’s most powerful conventional tractors, now possess Raven autonomy.

Constellation Brands is purchasing the first six units of Monarch Tractors’ Founder Series MK-V with Nvidia AI at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Livermore, CA, with contract manufacturing to come at Foxconn’s Lordstown, OH, facility in 2023.

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 Innovation Awards in Robotics and Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility Categories are for the company’s tractor that integrates technology such as cameras, artificial intelligence, other sensors, and ultra-fast GPU processors to navigate through a field without an operator in the cab.

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

The company’s proprietary SEDAR platform uses SWIR to offer 2D imaging and 3D determinative depth sensing at what it says is a fraction of the cost and complexity of other sensor systems such as lidar.