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Tesla gains Dutch approval for Full Self‑Driving Supervised system
Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving (FSD) Supervised system earned type approval from the Dutch vehicle authority (RDW) after more than a year and a half of on‑track and public‑road testing. Regulators highlighted the system’s continuous driver‑monitoring feature as a safety advantage, allowing Dutch owners to activate FSD Supervised without a special exemption.
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Chinese robotics firm UniX AI has launched Panther, a full‑size wheeled service humanoid robot capable of 8‑16 hour operation and multi‑step household tasks. The company says deliveries are now underway worldwide, marking the first mass‑produced humanoid aimed at everyday home chores.
The latest episode of #AutonomyMarkets has dropped. Watch or listen on your favorite podcast player. Europe’s First Robotaxi Launches on @Uber as NYC Stalls @Waymo https://t.co/IvNM5ajLR0
This #Autonomous #Robot Could End Deadly High-Rise Cleaning Jobs by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/pxKE4GY9tD
Andon Market opened Friday in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow, operated solely by Luna, an artificial‑intelligence manager that hires staff, orders inventory and handles payments. The AI has full financial authority up to a $100,000 cap, putting autonomous decision‑making at the...
Uber Eats' autonomous delivery robots, built by Avride, faced direct vandalism in Philadelphia just weeks after their March 10 launch, with multiple kicks and a topple in Center City. The incidents highlight growing friction between service robots and pedestrians in...
Schaeffler and Chinese robotics firm ROKAE signed a strategic cooperation agreement on April 7 to co‑develop core components for humanoid robots, including joint modules. The partnership blends Schaeffler’s high‑performance sensors, harmonic drives and precision manufacturing with ROKAE’s full‑stack robotics expertise and...
![[Gasgoo Express] NIO's William Li Discusses ES9 Design, Saying Originality Is Difficult but Must Be Done; March Passenger Vehicle Exports...](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://gascloud.gasgoo.com/production/2026/04/d969c976-b941-4bc9-8450-b8c17fb24f4a-1775916343.png)
NIO founder William Li highlighted the difficulty and necessity of original design while unveiling the ES9, an intelligent executive flagship SUV that blends Chinese cultural aesthetics with cutting‑edge technology. On the same day, China’s passenger vehicle exports surged to 695,000...
French Engineers Unveil Ultra-Stable #Drone System Redefining Aerial Precision by @tweetciiiim #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/f4k3aS6ptn
Waymo’s driverless taxi entered a Whataburger drive‑thru in San Antonio from the opposite direction, forcing police to manually move the occupied vehicle. The episode underscores operational flaws in Waymo’s emergency response system and fuels growing municipal criticism of robotaxi fleets.
Ukraine’s armed forces ran more than 9,000 unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) missions in March, a three‑fold increase from five months earlier. The commander of the Third Army Corps says the robots could soon handle up to one‑third of forward‑deployed infantry...
'@elonmusk, a lot of Tesla owners are actually calling for this - mandatory first-time FSD activation video quiz - to be a requirement everywhere, including the US. It is not often that customers ask to introduce friction by themselves. Might be...
Tesla FSD Safety page bugs out and returns to 6,226,277,786 miles driven (and equal city miles), if resizing the window on desktop Chrome. I have no clue who should know this, but thought I'd share it regardless https://t.co/rzmMgMtfnY
The Stanford Robotics Seminar examined why learning from demonstration remains harder for physical robots than for symbolic AI, coining an "algorithmic Moravec's paradox" that highlights fundamental instability in continuous control. The speaker traced the recent surge in narrow manipulation capabilities...
China Unveils #Drone Firefighting Tech for High-Rise Rescue and Fire Control by @MarchUnofficial #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/X3TFjnP0XV
Anthropic’s Claude #AI #Autonomously Grows Tomatoes for 100+ Days in Groundbreaking Experiment by @d33v33d0 #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/lhMuLS70zA
Faster Than a Monkey: This Tree-Climbing Pruning #Robot Is Wild by @IntEngineering #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/7Hldaa6bJU
