Could a robot do a FedEx driver’s job? In some instances, robots already do a similar job. They can deliver food and small packages. The jump to a full FedEx delivery driver may not be far off, especially with self-driving…
November 5, 2026 ~ Detroit News auto critic Henry Payne joined Kevin Dietz to discuss Tesla Cybercabs joining Waymo in robotaxi testing on Detroit streets. Payne examined the technology behind autonomous vehicles, the potential impact on transportation, and what the testing could mean…
A transformer-based middle-fusion framework called T-3MS Fusion achieves 74.9% NDS and 72.8% mAP on nuScenes 3D object detection using a Velodyne VLP-32C LiDAR and a consumer-grade 360-degree camera, eliminating test-time augmentation and ensembling while demonstrating resilience on a self-collected semi-urban dataset built with roughly…
Toyota Motor Corporation and Waymo have announced the next phase of their autonomous driving collaboration. The companies to begin scaling fleet of Toyota bZ4X autonomous vehicles in Japan in 2027, paving the way for what could be the country’s first domestically manufactured,…
As robotaxis arrive in London, the Institute for Driverless Transport has published a Research Roadmap setting out 65 open questions about how autonomous vehicles could affect the UK. The roadmap explores the ‘known unknowns’ across five areas: Economics & Productivity; Social Change;…
A chair hidden behind another car gave Tesla's Full Self-Driving system little time to react. During a test set up for 50 mph, the driver watched it brake and swerve, then praised the escape. That success was part of a wider…
An Avride delivery robot covered in graffiti travels along a Philadelphia sidewalk as frustration with AI-powered delivery machines grows. (Aluminum-001 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0) There's something pretty strange happening on American sidewalks. People are picking fights with food delivery robots.
Semantic segmentation of forest LiDAR point clouds requires distinguishing structurally similar stems, branches, and foliage-associated components. We evaluated SE-Attention, an attention-enhanced PointNet++ model with a squeeze-and-excitation (SE) channel-attention block after each of four Set Abstraction stages, against PointNet++, RandLA-Net, and…
The new S-Class sets back the self-driving clock a little, but that might not be such a bad thing. Mercedes-Benz’s autonomy roadmap has been a bit jumbled as of late. It was well over three years ago that the company’s…
Waymo announced today that when it launches a robotaxi service in Tokyo in 2027, it will use Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles that are assembled in Japan. The news builds on the strategic partnership between Waymo and Toyota which was first announced in…
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