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The newest member of May Mobility's executive team is eager to expand the company's fleet of autonomous vehicles
Kathy Winter has been working on the deployment of autonomous vehicles for more than a decade, first at the auto parts supplier Delphi and now as the general manager of Intel's autonomous transportation branch. May Mobility is a 5-year-old autonomous vehicle firm, and they've just hired a...
The restriction on autonomous drone flights over residential zones in Japan has been lifted
Japan removed its restriction on autonomous drone flights over residential areas on Monday to allow for airborne parcel deliveries and to assist solve the country's labor shortages caused by an aging population, particularly in rural areas.
Unattended drone flights were previously o...
Global Autonomous Case-Handling Robots (ACR) Market is Forecasted to Witness Growth at a CAGR of 19.34% over the Forecast Period (2022 – 2030)
Exponential growth seen by the e-commerce companies across the globe like Alibaba and Amazon has resulted in creation of huge warehouses and distribution centers. These warehouses and distribution centers are needed to be highly automated in order to cater to the growing number of orders and cons...
The first autonomous vehicle without a cabin is being built by an Australian tech company
The first fully autonomous and cabinless commercial vehicle, which may be used for everything from last-mile delivery to industrial logistics, is being developed by Oxford, England-based Oxbotica and Australian technology company Applied EV.
To integrate Oxbotica's autonomous car so...
CHINA XINJIANG’S PERMANENT POPULATION ROSE 18.52 PERCENT IN A DECADE
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- China Xinjiang’s permanent population rose 18.52 percent in a decade.
- By October 2020Xinjiang's permanent population had reached 25.85 million.
- The population of the Uygur ethnic group grew by 1.62 million. ...
TOYOTA TO INCREASE ITS SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTAKE BY 50%
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- Toyota to increase its software engineer intake by 50%.
- Toyota wants to boost the development of autonomous and other next-generation vehicles.
- Toyota employs a traditional mass recruitment system for university students....
SONY INDIA SOFTWARE TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FEMALE IISC STUDENTS
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- Sony India Software is going to award scholarships for female students at IISc.
- Scholarship is meant to encourage more women to pursue higher studies at IISc.
- Special attention is being given to engineering and technology so that...
CHINA INVESTMENTS WITH EU STATES UNDER THREAT OVER EP RESOLUTION ON UYGHURS
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- China investments with EU states under threat over EP resolution on Uyghurs.
- The EP passed a resolution on Dec. 18 on forced labour and conditions of Uyghurs.
- Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic minorities live in X...
PANASONIC CORP. TO TEST OUT SELF-DRIVING ROBOTS IN FEBRUARY FOR HOME DELIVERIES
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- Panasonic Corp. to test out self-driving robots in February for home deliveries.
- The first phase of the test will be done in a residential area near Tokyo.
- The autonomous robot travels at a maximum speed of 4 kms per hour...
SOFTBANK CORP. SUBSIDIARY TO LAUNCH THE FIRST AUTONOMOUS BUS SERVICE IN JAPAN
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- SoftBank Corp. subsidiary to launch the first autonomous bus service in Japan.
- The company will launch the starting Thursday.
- The passenger bus can carry 9 people and drive around 20 kms per hour.
- The autonomou...
KFC CHINA RIDES IN WITH AUTONOMOUS DINING ON WHEELS
It is really not so that the world is moving over to a robotized cyber-loving nation and all this is coming due to the on-going pandemic, but we couldn’t care less as we will remain glued to the going-on in a quite disconnected fashion and take what we get!
In China, KFC lau...
HYUNDAI-APTIV DRIVERLESS CAR VENTURE- MOTIONAL- SAVED FOR 2022 RELEASE
- Hyundai Motors announced Wednesday that its driverless joint venture with Aptive has been christened Motional.
- The automaker had lately kicked-off a joint venture in March with Aptiv-a self-driving technology company-as it seeks to develop and commercialize its autonomous techn...
EAST JAPAN RAILWAY CO. UNVEILED ITS AUTONOMOUS DISINFECTION, MOBILITY ROBOTS
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- East Japan Railway Co. unveiled its autonomous disinfection, mobility robots.
- The cleaning robot was developed by Nippon Signal Co. and Cyberdyne Inc.
- The name of the robot is Clinabo CL02.
- Another robot at Yam...
GERMAN COURT BANS TESLA AD ON AUTONOMOUS DRIVING
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- A Munich court has banned a Tesla ad about autonomous driving.
- The court considered the ad as misleading.
- Tesla has the right to appeal the ruling.
- Tesla‘s autopilot system has received criticism from many regula...
AUTOMATIC PERSONAL MOBILITY MACHINE NOW AT HANEDA AIRPORT
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- At Haneda Airport, an autonomous mobility system that can work like a wheelchair is available for use.
- This mobility system can cover many distances at airport and also help with social distancing.
A new autonomous mobilit...
A THUMBS-UP TO SHENZHEN FOR INITIATING DRY RUN OF AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER CARS
- City of Shenzhen opens up earmarked roads for autonomous cars to be tested in a tentative manner.
- This follows a similar exercise being carried out in Beijing and Shanghai.
Shenzhen is riding the technological wave with introduction of autonom...
Autonomous cars versus normal cars should be half as large
Think that all of the vehicles were gone by in traffic. Picture the beautiful morning commute in what used to be gridlock traffic, zipping along at 70 mph in. Immediately to your left you look out the window and see something you have never seen before on your commute: the scenery rolling past yo...
DOUBTS OVER LEVEL 3 AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS IN KOREA
Korea is expected to accommodate operations of basic level 3 self-driving vehicles on public roads by July 2020. However, it is raising a lot of questions among the users. The new initiative requires a brief amount of time for trial and error. Uncertainties in the technology will urge the early a...
ION and Navya partnership - Sustainable and autonomous transportation
(MENAFN-WAA)–ION has partnered with NAVYA, the leading independent driving firm, to operate and maintain electric and autonomous shuttles and also to finance their vehicles and related activities in both the UAE and the GCC region, in a strategic partnership with ABUDHABI, 13 January 2020 ,...
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES A FUTURE CALL?
The future of cars is predicted to be an autonomous electric vehicle. It promises to provide a hand-free solution to various transportation issues. A common belief of people is that electric vehicle (EV) cars will solve several environmental issues and social problems.
Futurama, a Gener...