Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images Donald Trump’s transition team is taking aim at a Biden-era rule requiring automakers and tech companies to report crashes…
The Trump transition team wants to end a federal rule requiring automakers to report crashes when advanced driver-assistance or autonomous driving technology is engaged, Reuters reports. Federal safety agencies would…
Almost one decade after its $1 billion acquisition of Cruise, automaker General Motors has decided to give up on the self-driving startup. GM will now use Cruise tech to improve…
Boston Dynamics’ robot dog “Spot” has become somewhat of an internet sensation, no doubt thanks to its (perhaps disturbingly) killer dance moves or displays of super-strength. But Spot is far…
From bricklaying robots to zero-carbon cement, startups are shaking up construction in a high-tech bid to build better, greener structures. One of these early-stage ventures is Finland-based Aisti. Founded in…
Gemini 2.0 Flash is available now, with other model sizes coming in January. It adds multilingual voice output, image output, and some trendy “agentic” capabilities. Source
A Cure for Weldness SpaceX is pulling out all the stops in preparation for the upcoming test launches of its gigantic Starship spacecraft next year. Footage shared by NASASpaceflight shows…
GM announced this week that it will no longer pursue the Cruise robotaxi business. (Cruise Photo) Microsoft will take an $800 million charge on its investment in the Cruise robotaxi…
In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast…
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment. The automaker’s…
After spending more than $10 billion to try to develop an autonomous robotaxi, General Motors is now calling time on the endeavor. On Tuesday afternoon, the automaker announced that it…
The news came by Slack message. Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June, posted a message Tuesday afternoon in the company’s announcements channel along with a…
Autonomous-driving operations at Cruise look certain to end after its main backer, General Motors, said it will stop funding the initiative. Source
The automaker has sunk billions into making a self-driving car service work. Now it says it will focus on “personal” autonomous vehicles instead. Source
GM is giving up on its Cruise robotaxi subsidiary. The company today that it will fold Cruise into its own in-house technical team. Under the new strategy, this single unit…
General Motors said Tuesday it will no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and will instead absorb its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and combine it with the…
Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images General Motors said it would no longer fund its Cruise robotaxi service as it seeks to focus autonomous vehicle development on personally owned vehicles. GM…
San Francisco is the most prepared city for new transportation technologies like AI, autonomous vehicles, and air taxis, according to an new urban mobility readiness index released Tuesday. The index,…
Lam Research introduced Dextro, the chip industry’s first collaborative robot designed to optimize maintenance in chip factories.Read More Source
Tesla's vision for driverless cars as a future of transportation will actually start very small, contrary to the grandiose vision outlined by Elon Musk during the Cybercab unveiling. Source