Simple Fixed Routes Prime Self-Driving Adoption
It's happening. These fixed routes, with clear and simple routes, are a shoe-in for self-driving....
AMD Enters Humanoid Robotics Race with Gen1
Generative Bionics’ Gen1 Positions AMD in the Emerging Humanoid #Robotics Race by @CyberRobooo #Robots #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/so74ccM0IR
Agentic Swarms Boost Productivity—If Control Remains
Autonomous agentic swarms promise massive productivity gains if organizations can maintain control and compliance. https://t.co/XG4xwtjMEd
Humanoid Robot Thrives in Environments Unsuitable for Humans
DR02: The Humanoid #Robot That Thrives Where Humans Can’t by @DeepRobotics_CN #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/hdoaTVx2Nh
Robots Harvest 2000 Broccoli per Hour, Human‑Free
These #Robots Harvest 2000 Broccolis an Hour—No Humans Needed by @lukas_m_ziegler #AgriTech #TechForGood #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/4phAABcjoc
HW4 Upgrade Likely; HW
Retrofits may or may not ever be needed. I think they will likely do it because it will ultimately be easier than wasting time trying to distill smaller models. But they only have to upgrade when HW4 is unsupervised on...
Disney Turns Storytelling Into Character‑Driven Robotics
Disney is not “becoming” an AI and robotics company. In some very important ways, it already is. That is what I think many people still miss. For decades, Disney mastered something most tech companies never truly understood: how to make movement feel alive. A pause....
Robot Gains True First-Person Vision Capability
Seeing Through Its Own Eyes: Building a #Robot with True First-Person Vision via @WevolverApp #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/ogTgNcCfV6
McDonald’s Shanghai Introduces Humanoid Robots for Service
McDonald’s in Shanghai Deploys Humanoid #Robots to Serve Customers by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML https://t.co/z86oqGjpAZ
Waymo's Early Vision: Tiny Wheel‑less Two‑seat Autonomous Car
Waymo’s original vision for what autonomy would look like, ten years ago. A small two seat car with no steering wheel or pedals. Kind of reminds me of the Cybercab, but less sexy. https://t.co/84uLzT68Wt
Zoox Debuts Wheel‑less Rides in Austin
First @zoox I’ve seen in Austin. The no steering wheel is wild. Talk about burning the bridges. https://t.co/9tJMhXqNdJ
AI-Driven CRISPR‑GPT Enables Fully Autonomous Lab Experiments
A junior researcher walks up to a CRISPR experiment they've never run before. An AI agent has already decomposed the workflow, selected the guide RNAs, anticipated failure modes, and drafted the protocol. They run it successfully on their first attempt. That's not...
NYC AV Permits Persist Despite Expired State Framework
“The city permit program still exists,” says NYCDOT’s Kelsey Taeckens on testing AVs. It’s basically as of right if you meet the requirements. But the state law framework under which the city issues the permits expired with the (now late)...
Autonomous Vehicles Still Depend on Human Remote Control
A couple panelists have said that “autonomous” is yet another purposeful misnomer, like “hosting” or “sharing.” The vehicles require full-time remote human assistance. There are issues of capability, quality control, fatigue here, says prof Wansley. https://t.co/DuPH2RRhk7
Regulate AVs to Curb Externalities, Protect Privacy
AV regulation must focus on “curbing externalities” (congestion taxes), consumer protection, and the impact on the urban environment, says Prof Wansley. (He’s worried about privacy as an externality, eg companies’ full surveillance of everything that happens on the streets and...
Waymo Matches Human Drivers' Safety, Despite Underreported Crashes
Waymo in SF has comparable safety rate to UberLyft human-driven rides in SF, says Cardozo prof Matthew Wansley, citing academic study, but notes the human-driven crashes in this set are likely underreported. He thinks AVs are making a “positive contribution”...
VertiGo Robot Scales Walls Using Lizard‑Inspired Grip
Gravity-Defying VertiGo #Robot Climbs Walls Like a Lizard by @lukas_m_ziegler #AI #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/8W0HhlekXt
Waymo’s Years of Scaling Contrast Tesla’s Brand‑new Robotaxi
People forget how long it took Waymo to get to the point where it started scaling seriously. It didn’t happen in the first year. The Tesla Robotaxi service is not even a year old yet.
Regulators, Not Tesla, Allow Misleading Autopilot Labels
David Zipper note that Tesla has gotten away with calling something “autopilot” and “self driving” even though it’s not “autopilot” or “self driving.” Notes that the failure is regulators, not companies.
Tech Firms Blur Tool vs Solution; AVs Aren’t Salvation
“Tech companies deliberately obfuscate the distinction” between a tool and a solution, says Peter Norton. This applies to AVs, he notes. [they may be a tool for something, but we need to define what that thing is in NYC.] High-tech...
Tesla's Self-Driving 14.3.1 Navigates SF Like AGI
Tesla Self-Driving 14.3.1 tours San Francisco. Sometimes it feels like driving through this city requires AGI, but Cybertruck just does it so perfectly. https://t.co/Rayj1Bzi7G
Waymo's 92% Safer Claim Is Just Marketing
The “92% safer” line from Waymo “is a marketing line,” says Bloomberg’s David Zipper. Any serious academic will tell you, on safety, “we don’t know.”
Mass Adoption Dulls the Joy of Driving
Everyone keeps saying “oh, the Waymo, it’s so fun, get in!” says Rachel Weinberger. Notes this reasoning ignores the entire history of the 20th century where “the number of people who wanted to use the motor vehicle entirely ruined the...
AV Safety Data Ignores Induced Driving, Says Zipper
David Zipper says that the context-free AV boosters on social media are generally engineers. This is all a 20th century throwback to having a singular goal of moving motor vehicles fast. He notes that the AV safety data is meaningless...
Safety Debate Distracts From Proven Transit Solutions
“The safety question is actually a distraction” on AVs, says RPA’s Rachel weinberger. “We have the technology to make motor vehicles much safer. … we have speed governors … the safest way is to get more people on transit....
Waymo Manager Walks Out, Stifles Critical Debate
Panelists and guests at this Roosevelt House AV summit uniformly disappointed that Waymo northeast policy manager gave his pitch and then left rather than listening to the two more skeptical panels to follow and having a real discussion. https://t.co/pwVnR2g2OA
Tesla FSD Needs Better Lane‑change Anticipation
It's great that Tesla's FSD backs off from passing this truck on the right, as it moves into my lane. It would have been even better if it had anticipated this truck moving into my lane to avoid buffeting the...
Tesla FSD Misreads Exit, Recovers on Tight Ramp
I asked Tesla Self-Driving 14.3.1 to exit the Mason / O'Farrell Garage in Downtown San Francisco. It tries to go up instead of down, so I had to intervene to help it find the right path. But it handled the tight...
Army Looks to Drone Tankers for Cheyenne II Refuel
Army Eyes Drone Tankers To Refuel Its New MV-75 Cheyenne II Tiltrotors The Army and Bell have pointed to the U.S. Navy's MQ-25 Stingray drone tanker as an example of what could be on the horizon. https://t.co/e6RXASGLjJ
JetSnake Robot Tackles Dangerous Tunnel Maintenance Tasks
Snake-Arm #Robot “JetSnake” Takes on Hazardous Tunnel Maintenance Tasks by @IntEngineering #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/xrjfym04IA
Future Is Here: Localizing Products From a Self-Driving Car
It's easy to forget that you're living in the future. But every now and then you see something like this... Responding to a client's complaint by making a major product change (localization) from your phone, talking to your software agent...
Starlink Outage Halts Navy Unmanned Vessel Test
“Last August, U.S. Navy officials carrying out a test of unmanned vessels realized they had hit a single point of failure: Starlink. A global outage across Elon Musk’s satellite network affecting millions of Starlink users had left two dozen...
Vulcan AI Controller Keeps Robot Stable After Actuator Loss
Introducing Vulcan - a new Al robot controller This is an important safety feature that allows F.03 to lose up to 3 actuators in the lower body and still hobble around without falling Check it out https://t.co/g8YpYfWajw
Foundation Model Sparks GPT‑Era, Zero‑Shot Robotics Revolution
Physical Intelligence (@physical_int) is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT moment for robotics. The company's cross-embodiment approach trains across many different robot platforms, and recent...
AI Robot Accelerates Solar Panel Installation Safely
#AI-Powered #Robot Revolutionizes Solar Panel Installation with Speed, Precision, and Safety via @ZappyZappy7 #AI #Robotics #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/d9jZS1jtju
French Media Skips Tesla in Dutch Autonomy Approval
a French news channel covering that autonomous cars were approved in Netherlands but not mentioning once that it was about Tesla. Imagine the siloes people live in, even today.
Humanoid Robots Successfully Ride Electric Motorcycles Outdoors
Humanoid #Robots Ride Electric Motorcycles in Real-World Test via @sz_mediagroup #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/Zh841HuQfc
Boston Should Lead Autonomous Shift to End Auto Deaths
If Boston is going to stay the most family-friendly city in US we should be the first to go fully autonomous and end automobile deaths. We could get there by 2030 with the right incentives/regs. It's the new...
AgileX Launches Autonomous Robots Designed for Real-World Chaos
AgileX #Robotics Unveils #Autonomous Machines Built for Real-World Chaos by @AgilexRobotics #AI #Robots #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/4MAnVqqOD5
Robotaxis Now Deliver Takeout Without Human Drivers
Futuristic Robotaxis Couriers Deliver Takeout Fully Unmanned by @Fabriziobustama #EmergingTech #SmartCity #Tech #Technology #Innovation #TechForGood https://t.co/7G85SoJXSX
Regulate Driverless Rideshares to Preserve NYC Transit Efficiency
Thankfully, NYC doesn't have to manage itself via superficial lukewarm takes. We know from the UberLyft rollout and ensuing price war a decade ago that we will have to carefully regulate and price for-hire driverless vehicles (the term "ridershare" in...
Tesla's First Unsupervised Cars Limited to Robotaxi Zones
Based on Tesla’s stated forecasts, unsupervised on customer vehicles will come first. (but you will have to be in an existing Robotaxi geofence)
Unitree's Human‑like Robot Beats Humans in Speed
JUST IN: China's Unitree released a robot featuring a human-like body that outperforms most people in speed.
Advantage Reward Model Boosts Towel‑Folding Success to 99.4%
New paper achieves 99.4% success rate on bimanual towel-folding using a new Advantage Reward Model (ARM), an upgrade of SARM. Key Innovation: Swaps strict monotonic progress for a simple relative advantage signal (-1, 0, +1). This handles messy demos and DAgger...
Qualcomm Invests in Wayve, Boosting AI-Driven Automotive Tech
Today we announced new investment from @Qualcomm and I got to spend time with CEO @cristianoamon and EVP @nakulduggal. I'm excited about the scale and potential Wayve's AI and Snapdragon will bring to global automotive industry. https://t.co/Zeb42SVPWb
Consumers Prefer Robotaxis Over Owning New Luxury Robocars
A new robocar: https://t.co/yEijU7C02N I can see how this would sell a few. Rich people like having something that's different than the flood of Teslas here in Silicon Valley. And seeing a new approach to transportation that's based wholly around autonomy...
Tesla FSD Misidentifies Non‑emergency Vehicle, Slows Unnecessarily
File this ... again ... under two steps forward and one step back. Slowing for an emergency vehicle, on the other side of the road, that is not in an emergency situation. No sirens and no flashing lights. Tesla's FSD does...
German Grille Multicopter Delivers High Payload for Rapid Rescue
Grille: High-Payload German Multicopter Built for Rapid Rescue Operations by @DefenseTrends #Drone #Engineering #EmergingTech #Innovation https://t.co/2AjWfJAZgM
Safety Beats Hardware: Heterogeneous Fleets Demand Robust FSD
No service running at scale is ever going to have a homogenous set of hardware. That’s like saying “wouldn’t it be easier for Apple to let everyone upgrade to iPhone 17 rather than making their software backwards compatible?” A heterogeneous...
US Ports Already Using Automated Vehicles, Contrary to Claims
Pro China accounts love to post automated vehicles at ports and claim they’d never see this in America (hell, a lot of the videos are literally from LBCT) Meanwhile, these AGVs are rolling everyday at Long Beach Container Terminal https://t.co/P1kW2UZlAK