Chatbots needed large language models to learn from text at scale. Robots, self-driving cars and industrial machines need something different. Nvidia just released the most advanced version of it yet. Nvidia launched Cosmos 3, an open world foundation model for physical AI trained on 20...
Uber is teaming with autonomous mobility companies Pony.ai and Verne to launch Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service. The project is slated to get underway soon in the Croatian capital of Zagreb soon, with initial development work already happening, Pony.ai announced Thursday (March 26). “The three...
Self-driving vehicle startup Waymo said Friday (Feb. 6) that the latest virtual world in which it is developing its artificial intelligence (AI) will enhance the company’s ability to scale its service in the real world. The company’s newly introduced Waymo World Model is built on Google DeepMind’s...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will streamline an exemption process to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles. The agency’s efforts will focus on the Part 555 exemption process, which allows manufacturers to sell as many as 2,500 vehicles per year that do not fully...
June 16, 2026
Robots navigating factory floors, drones inspecting power lines, and autonomous vehicles reading traffic all share the same constraint: They need to act in milliseconds. Sending data to a distant computing facility and waiting for a response takes too long. For machines operating in the physical world, that delay can mean a missed obstacle, a wrong […]
August 11, 2018
Americans do a lot of driving. According to the latest edition of the American Driving Survey, each Americans spends about 290 hours a year behind the wheel, driving about 10,000 miles. As a...
January 10, 2018
It’s hard to look at the explosion of order-ahead capabilities for coffee, food and even groceries, and to think, “Now that is a concept that is failing to live up to its...
January 08, 2018
The right connections can open up plenty of opportunities. And, in the automotive world, connectivity is helping automakers find new opportunities to rev up in-vehicle purchases among motorists. Every weekday...
March 26, 2026
Uber is teaming with autonomous mobility companies Pony.ai and Verne to launch Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service. The project is slated to get underway soon in the Croatian capital of Zagreb soon, with initial development work already happening, Pony.ai announced Thursday (March 26). “The three companies plan to collaborate on the deployment of a commercial […]
February 06, 2026
Self-driving vehicle startup Waymo said Friday (Feb. 6) that the latest virtual world in which it is developing its artificial intelligence (AI) will enhance the company’s ability to scale its service...
June 13, 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will streamline an exemption process to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles. The agency’s efforts will focus on the Part 555 exemption process, which...
April 18, 2025
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman — who disclosed in a Thursday (April 17) post on X that the firm owns a 19.8% stake Hertz — said in the post that Hertz and Uber would be ideal...