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
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
a decade ago, Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick said he viewed autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the transportation company’s business model. “What if we weren’t part of that future? If we weren’t part of autonomy? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider. In the years since then, Uber has opted for
Dodge beyond the live coding sessions on stage, AI refresher courses, a gadget obstacle course, round people walking around with bright green silent disco-style headphones blasting UN panel discussions in your ears, and you can pause for a breath. But you might find yourself in the Networking Zone, in a swivel-seating contraption called UFOTECH that
It seems like we’ve been talking about the future of autonomy for a long time, but things are getting real and fast. Tesla’s cyber taxis are in production and an increasing number of them have appeared in drone footage of factory parking lots or in posts shared online from various tests across the United States.