Tesla has brought an unspecified number of its unattended Model Y SUVs to Orlando and Tampa, just one day before the company’s scheduled second-quarter earnings call. This is the third Florida city where Tesla is testing its fledgling robotaxi service, following a small launch in Miami a few weeks ago. The two new cities appear
Rumors that Elon Musk could combine Tesla and SpaceX are growing, and investors want answers. Shareholders turned to a Tesla investor online forum to submit questions to executives ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings and clamor for more details on a rumored merger with SpaceX. “Will SpaceX merge with Tesla?” asked one retail investor, in
You may have heard that the Honda Prologue is officially dead, a decision the company confirmed to TechCrunch, removing the last all-electric vehicle from the automaker’s US portfolio. The Prologue’s departure signals more than just the decline of Honda’s electric vehicles. It also illustrates a broader retreat of the electric vehicle industry from the US
Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just down the road from the factory where Tesla is expected to begin manufacturing its Optimus robots this year. Tesla has increasingly bet on Optimus. Elon Musk recently said he hopes it will be “the biggest product ever created” once
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driver of a Tesla that crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, defeating the company’s fully autonomous (supervised) driving software. Data recovered from the Tesla showed the vehicle was traveling more than 70 miles per hour when it crashed