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Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car
Google has reportedly shelved its long-standing plan to develop its own autonomous vehicle in favor of pursuing partnerships with existing car makers.
Crunch Report | Tesla and SolarCity-powered Island
Tesla and SolarCity power an island in American Samoa, after skipping last year Apple holds its Black Friday sale, robots will be helping with shopping at Westfield malls in San…
BMW and Baidu’s self-driving car partnership has reportedly run out of gas
It’s been an up-and-down week for Baidu and its autonomous-driving car vision. On the plus, the Chinese tech firm yesterday announced that it had begun testing self-driving vehicles in Wuzhen,…
Crunch Report | GoPro releases the new Karma Drone
GoPro releases the new Karma drone, Nikon launches 3 new action cams, Twitter makes changes looking for new users, Lyft outlined some of its ideas for autonomous driving, and Foundry…
Most of us techies agree that optimal travel is teleportation or apparition. The dream is instantaneous point-to-point transport. All business transportation should be evaluated based on how close it comes…
MIT spinout NuTonomy just beat Uber to launch the world’s first self-driving taxi
Uber has taken the plaudits for its audacious plans to deploy driverless cars as soon as this month, but the U.S. giant has been beaten to the punch for actually…
Otto, founded by ex-Googlers, is bringing self-driving technology to trucks
Self-driving cars are very much a part of the future of tech, with Google, Uber, Apple and plenty of other top names working to develop autonomous vehicles. But what about…
Wheelie: Toshiba's new robot is cute, autonomous and maybe even useful (video)
Toshiba is a huge company, but it’s not necessarily known as a maker of robots. Their “Wheelie” for indoor use is an autonomous, 2-wheeled robot, which is still in prototype…