Tech & Society
Robots On the Loading Dock: Tensions mount as automation transforms U.S. shipping ports
Shipping ports are the latest front in the rising tension between labor unions and AI-powered automation.
Autonomous Vehicles
Business
Waymo Spotlights Safety Record: Waymo claims its robotaxis are safer than human drivers, citing new safety data
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, released an analysis of its own safety data. It suggests that the company’s self-driving cars are safer than human drivers on the same roads.
Tech & Society
Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia
Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
Tech & Society
Self-Driving on Indian Roads: Indian self-driving car startups tackle chaotic roads
Few makers of self-driving cars have braved the streets of India. Native startups are filling the gap.
Tech & Society
Cruise Control: Cruise shuts down self-driving cars due to California safety concerns.
The state of California pulled the parking brake on Cruise driverless vehicles. The DMV suspended Cruise’s permit to operate vehicles in the state without safety drivers. The General Motors subsidiary responded by halting its robotaxi operations across the United States.
Tech & Society
More Tesla Crashes: Government data shows increase in Tesla autonomous collisions.
Tesla cars operating semi-autonomously have had many more collisions than previously reported, and the rate of such incidents has risen, government data shows.
Machine Learning Research
Deep Learning at (Small) Scale: How to run PilotNet on a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
TinyML shows promise for bringing deep learning to applications where electrical power is scarce, processing in the cloud is impractical, and/or data privacy is paramount.
Tech & Society
Robotaxis Face Headwinds: San Francisco pushes back on self-driving cars.
San Francisco officials are pushing back on self-driving taxis in the city after a deluge of public complaints.
Tech & Society
Self-Driving Deception: Tesla allegedly misled the public about its self-driving.
Tesla, whose autonomous-vehicle technology has been implicated in a number of collisions, promoted it in a way that apparently was intended to deceive. Tesla deliberately misled the public about its vehicles’ ability to drive themselves, according to Bloomberg and other news outlets.
Tech & Society
Autonomous Drone Carrier: Meet Zhuhaiyun, the Chinese Navy's new autonomous ship.
A Chinese naval ship navigates autonomously and controls a swarm of onboard drones. The Zhuhaiyun, billed as the first autonomous drone carrier, officially entered service after 12 hours of trials on open water, the South China Morning Post reported.
Business
Drive Different: Apple plans self-driving car release for 2026.
Apple is redrawing the road map for its self-driving car. The company is redesigning an autonomous car that has been in development for nearly a decade, Bloomberg reported. Originally intended to be fully autonomous under all conditions, the redesigned vehicle will allow for a human driver.
Tech & Society
Self-Driving Safety Check: U.S. Government Data Details 2021 Autonomous Vehicle Crashes
The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) detailed autonomous vehicle collisions over a 12-month period.