Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that

Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and ...
New Atlas

Toyota-backed air taxi hits 100 km/h, speeding toward commercial debut

Toyota-backed SkyDrive's SD-05 multicopter has achieved stable flight at 100 km/h (62 mph), proving its wingless design ...
Interesting Engineering

BMW’s smart factory in US gets Figure 03 humanoid robot for advanced logistics work

BMW deploys Figure 03 humanoid robot in US production, expanding Physical AI with advanced logistics automation and smart ...
C&EN

Self-driving labs are changing how chemists work

A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry ...

Frontier High School student builds autonomous robot car despite vision impairment

Aiden Bishop, a student at Frontier High School, earns praise for his determination and technical skill in creating an ...
FOX 11 Los Angeles

California's 'robotaxi crackdown': New law allows police to cite driverless cars

California's Assembly Bill 1777 cracks down on driverless robotaxis by allowing police to issue traffic citations to AV ...
Hackaday

LightComposer – Reach Out And Touch Your Lighting

While there is a time and place for wirelessly controlled devices, sometimes you want something you can just reach out and ...

This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California’s roads, but drivers are pushing back

Founded in 2025, Humble Robotics is building self-driving freight trucks with no steering wheel, driver's seat or gas pedal.
Circuit Digest

How to do Object Detection with Raspberry Pi Using CircuitDigest Cloud

That is exactly what this Raspberry Pi object detection project demonstrates. You can build a fully working object detection ...
Popular Science

How can self-driving cars see better? Make their sensors more human.

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Electrek

Waymo buys Apple’s abandoned self-driving car proving ground for $220M

Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre autonomous vehicle proving ground in Wittmann, Arizona, for $220 million — nearly double the $125 million Apple paid for it in 2021. The facility was the ...
SFChronicle

Letters: These riders can’t use Waymo’s driverless cars and are treated like second-class customers

Waymo’s driverless cars may be technologically impressive, but they are not accessible to many severely disabled riders. I am a full-time power wheelchair user, disability civil-rights enforcement ...