#autonomous-vehicles

#autonomous-vehicles

But China has now raced far beyond the flirtation stage. It's rolling out fleets of autonomous delivery trucks, experimenting with flying cars and installing parking lot robots that can swap out your E.V.'s dying battery in just minutes. There are drones that deliver lunch by lowering it from the sky on a cable. If all that sounds futuristic and perhaps bizarre, it also shows China's ambition to dominate clean energy technologies of all kinds,

At the keynote, Rivian unveiled its Gen 3 platform, which will turn the maker of EV trucks, SUVs, and vans into an autonomy company, a focus he says will subsume "the whole business" of transportation. Debuting late next year in a version of the upcoming R2 SUV, the Rivian Autonomy Computer platform is powered by a chip the company designed itself, the RAP1 (Rivian Autonomy Processor).

For the last year and a half, two hacked white Tesla Model 3 sedans each loaded with five extra cameras and one palm-sized supercomputer have quietly cruised around San Francisco. In a city and era swarming with questions about the capabilities and limits of artificial intelligence, the startup behind the modified Teslas is trying to answer what amounts to a simple question: How quickly can a company build autonomous vehicle software today?

A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn't even the first one. What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles have quietly become part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn't happening in San Francisco's robotaxis. It was playing out in Hollywood, where Netflix made an $82 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio business.

Alphabet ( NASDAQ:GOOG) and Nvidia ( NASDAQ:NVDA) have been two of the best growth stocks to own this year. Both stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 over several years and have multiple AI catalysts that can lead to more gains. However, Alphabet has delivered higher returns than Nvidia over the past year, and that trend is likely to continue. Google's parent company looks like the better AI stock, and there are a few reasons why.

Humans are likewise crucial for Cephla, which is deploying AI-powered microscopes in life science research, drug discovery, and diagnostics, said Hongquan Li, cofounder and CEO of the biotech company. Starting with malaria detection, humans are collecting data for training, annotating images, and providing input on relevant clinical metrics, he said. "When those machines are deployed, humans operate those microscopes and interact with patients and make the critical clinical decisions," Li said.

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Eight years ago, I made a jump to industry: I was chief scientist and head of R&D for Uber's self-driving program, which gave me a lot of visibility in terms of what building a world-class program and bringing the technology to market would look like. One of the things that became clear was that there was a tremendous opportunity for a disrupter in the industry, because everybody was going with an approach that was extremely complex and brittle,

The suit was filed in Alexandria, Virginia, and accuses Tesla of knowingly infringing upon five patents related to robotics systems for self-driving vehicles. The company said its founder, Paul Perrone, developed general-purpose robotics operating systems for individual robots and automated devices. Perrone Robotics claims that all Tesla vehicles utilizing the company's Autopilot suite within the last six years infringe the five patents, according to a report from Reuters. Tesla's new Safety Report shows Autopilot is nine times safer than humans

It's hard to argue that Toyota isn't operating from a position of strength right now. As global electric vehicle sales remain uneven, the Japanese automaker continues to generate robust profits from its broad hybrid lineup and has managed the U.S. tariff challenges more effectively than many of its competitors.

Tesla's Robotaxis, which CEO Elon Musk promised there will be millions of roaming the streets by next year, have now crashed four times in a single month. According to updated filings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration spotted by Electrek, Tesla has reported three more crashes involving its Robotaxis operating in Austin, Texas, bringing it to a total of seven known crashes since the service first launched in late June.