How autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along
Cyrus Radfar Contributor Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide. More posts by this contributor Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need… Read more »
Category: Emerging-Technologies
Altitude Angel launches an API for safer drone flights
Altitude Angel, a U.K. startup that provides safety, data and traffic management systems for drones, is launching a de-confliction service for drone flights — available via its developer API platform…. Read more »
Peloton’s new automated vehicle system gives one driver control of two trucks
The trucking world has been inundated in recent years by startups and large companies alike pitching an array of automated driving technology and business strategies, all aiming to solve the… Read more »
Cambridge Uni graphene spin-out bags $16M to get its first product to market
Cambridge, UK based graphene startup, Paragraf, has closed a £12.8 million (~$16M) Series A round of funding led by early stage VC Parkwalk. Also investing this round: IQ Capital Partners,… Read more »
May Mobility reveals prototype of a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle
Autonomous transportation startup May Mobility is doing more than just talking about accessibility when it comes to self-driving transportation tech development. The company recently began developing a wheelchair-accessible prototype version… Read more »
Zoox’s self-driving car will provide a smooth ride via independent active suspension
Zoox CTO and co-founder Jesse Levinson revealed a few more details today about the company’s autonomous vehicle hardware, which it’s designing along with its software stack from the ground up…. Read more »
Waymo has now driven 10 billion autonomous miles in simulation
Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous driving company announced a new milestone at TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility on Wednesday: 10 billion miles driving in simulation. This is a significant achievement for the company, because… Read more »
Check out the breakout sessions at TC Sessions: Mobility
TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10 in San Jose is fast approaching. Get ready for a superb lineup of speakers like Dmitri Dolgov (Waymo), Eric Allison (Uber) and Summer Craze… Read more »
Researchers create first mind-controlled robot arm that works well without surgery
Carnegie Mellon researchers working with peers from the University of Minnesota have made a big breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and robotic technology: They’ve developed a way for a person… Read more »
CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners
Future autonomous vehicle and other machine intelligence systems might not need line-of-sight to gather incredibly detailed image data: New research from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University… Read more »
Is your product’s AI annoying people?
James Glasnapp Contributor James Glasnapp is a senior UX researcher at PARC. More posts by this contributor Nine requirements for a successful private ridesharing system Artificial intelligence is allowing us… Read more »
Nuro CEO Dave Ferguson at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10 in San Jose
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro, fresh with nearly $1 billion in capital from SoftBank, is bursting with ideas — as some recent patent filings (and our recent deep dive into the… Read more »
Transportation Weekly: Waymo unleashes laser bear, Bird spreads its wings, Lyft tightens its belt
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch . This is the fifth edition of our newsletter and we love the reader feedback…. Read more »
Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ‘fake news’
UK startup Fabula AI reckons it’s devised a way for artificial intelligence to help user generated content platforms get on top of the disinformation crisis that keeps rocking the world… Read more »
Japan’s “Society 5.0” initiative is a roadmap for today’s entrepreneurs
Mark Minevich Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Minevich is a digital fellow at IPSoft. Japan, still suffering the consequences of its ‘Lost Decade’ of economic stagnation, is eyeing a transformation… Read more »
Argo AI acquires permit to test autonomous vehicles in California
Argo AI, the self-driving car startup that burst onto the scene in 2017 with $1 billion in backing from Ford, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in… Read more »
Work on world’s first CRISPR gene-edited babies declared illegal by China
Chinese authorities have declared the work of He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific community by claiming he successfully created the world’s first gene-edited babies, an illegal decision in pursuit of “personal… Read more »
World’s most valuable AI startup SenseTime unveils self-driving center in Japan
The world’s highest-valued artificial intelligence startup SenseTime has set foot in Japan. The Beijing-based firm announced on Friday that it just opened a self-driving facility in Joso, a historic city… Read more »
UK police release airport drone suspects and admit there may not have been any drones after all
Less than a week after mystery drones grounded flights at the U.K’s second largest airport, wreaking havoc on as many as 140,000 people’s travel plans for the Christmas period, police have… Read more »
Drones ground flights at UK’s second largest airport
Mystery drone operator/s have grounded flights at the UK’s second largest airport, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of people hoping to get away over the festive period…. Read more »
Quantum computing, not AI, will define our future
William (“Whurley”) Hurley Contributor Share on Twitter William Hurley, commonly known as whurley, is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Chaotic Moon Studios, Honest Dollar, and Equals: The Global… Read more »
This 3D printer squirts out wet paper pulp
Like a kid shooting spitballs, designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material for making mischief. His 3D printer, a primitive RepRap clone that… Read more »