The new trials are part of Dubai’s larger autonomous public vehicle ambitions.

The transaction aligns with Magna’s Go-Forward strategy of accelerating investments in high-growth areas and broadens Magna’s ADAS portfolio with complementary products, customers, and geographies.

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

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

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.

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.

With Tesla in their cross-hairs, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Volkswagen look to create class-leading automated driving systems.

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