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China stopped issuing new robotaxi licenses over a glitch. America can’t stop them from crime scenes
On March 31, over a hundred of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on the streets of Wuhan. Vehicles stalled…
Despite fears of drivers losing their jobs to robotaxis, Waymo’s boss says the company will still need humans to fill technician and operator roles
Advanced technology isn’t just automating tasks in the white collar world—AI agents and robots are flipping burgers, stocking warehouses, and…
Summer Yue isn’t the most famous employee at Meta. The director of “superintelligence alignment and safety research” posts pictures of herself walking her dog on the beach and messages about testing the honesty…
Cofounder of bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of robots is ‘pure fantasy’
While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for…
Gatik, a Silicon Valley startup developing self-driving delivery trucks, says its commercial operations are about to scale up dramatically, from…
Waabi raises up to $1 billion and partners with Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis as the race to dominate self-driving heats up
Waabi, the Toronto-based AI company building software to enable autonomous driving, has raised $1 billion in new funding and struck…
Qualcomm exec says buckle up for the next 5 years. Your car is going to be the first shoe to drop
A future filled with robots that can reason is fast approaching—and it starts with your car, Qualcomm’s executive vice president…
Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based startup that is turning heavyweight construction machines into autonomous robots, has raised $23 million to expand…
San Francisco continues to cement its role as one of the world’s most important testing grounds for autonomous mobility. The…
WeRide’s CEO pitches robotaxis as a solution to aging populations and long commutes, as the firm raises more money for R&D with a HK IPO
Shares of WeRide start trading on Hong Kong’s stock exchange today, just over a year after the robotaxi firm forayed…












