What’s Happening: Asda, the UK’s second-largest online supermarket, is partnering with autonomous vehicle technology startup Wayve for a year-long trial of self-driving grocery deliveries. The trial will allow Asda to autonomously deliver groceries to over 170,000 residents in 72,000 households…
What’s Happening: Mobileye is opening its new headquarters in Jerusalem, which has received the highest possible LEED Platinum environmental rating for new construction from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Why It Matters: The LEED Platinum rating highlights Mobileye’s commitment…
What’s Happening: Autonomous logistics company Venti Technologies has secured $28.8 million in a Series A financing round. LG Technology Ventures led the round, joined by Safar Partners, UOB Venture Management, and existing investors Alpha JWC and LDV Partners. The funds…
What’s Happening: The State of Israel’s Ministry of Education has announced that Prof. Amnon Shashua, Mobileye‘s founder, president, and CEO, will be awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the country’s most prestigious civilian honor. The award, in its 70th…
What’s Happening: ASPIRE announced the launch of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League, the world’s largest autonomous racing league, to take place at the Yas Marina Circuit in 2024. The league aims to push the boundaries of autonomous mobility and…
What’s Happening: Ouster, a leading lidar sensor provider, and Fieldin, an AgTech company with a smart farming platform, have announced the largest known deployment of retrofit autonomy kits for autonomous tractors in the agricultural industry. Fieldin plans to deploy over…
What’s Happening: Honda will display the latest capabilities of its Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) prototype at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 in Las Vegas from March 14-18, 2023. The new vehicle is designed to improve worksite efficiencies and productivity in the construction industry.…
What’s Happening: FERNRIDE, a self-driving truck pioneer, and Terberg, a market leader in terminal tractors, have announced their partnership to develop an automated and CE-certified tractor for series production. The tractor offers teleoperation and autonomous driving functions with a “human-in-the-loop”…
What’s Happening: Clevon, a global autonomous delivery innovator, and ZF, a global technology company, have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the deployment of efficient and integrated next-generation last-mile delivery services using driverless carriers in urban and on-yard environments. The…
ABU DHABI, UAE – Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and HeroX, the leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, have launched a crowdsourcing competition called the TII Infrared Tracking Challenge. The challenge is aimed at finding solutions to track objects in…
NEW YORK and MADRID – Ottonomy.IO and Goggo Network have announced their partnership for last-mile deliveries in Spain and Europe. This marks the first time that a fully L4 autonomous robot will be utilized on public sidewalks for commercial deliveries…
Germany – Bosch and APCOA have announced plans to install automated valet parking technology in 15 additional parking garages across Germany. The infrastructure-based, automated and driverless SAE Level 4 parking system will be rolled out in cities such as Hamburg,…
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Cepton, a Silicon Valley-based company specializing in high-performance lidar solutions, has completed a $100 million investment from its long-term automotive partner and current shareholder, Koito Manufacturing. The investment, which was approved at a special meeting of…
The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) announced this week that Cavnue, a leading company developing technical-advanced roads for connected and automated vehicles, will join as the newest member. The AVIA is dedicated to educating and promoting the technology’s safety, mobility…
MASSY – Carrefour, the leader in home delivery in France, is partnering with Goggo Network, an autonomous logistics operator, to trial autonomous delivery of Carrefour Drive orders for residents on the Plateau de Saclay, including students at the Paris Institut…
Oxbotica, a global leader in autonomous vehicle software, announced today that it has raised $140 million in Series C investment. The funding will be used to deploy its operating system for Universal Autonomy™ in multiple commercial and industrial domains around…
Düsseldorf / Germany – Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) increasingly rely on high-resolution cameras that can focus more accurately. To ensure driver safety, the reliability of these cameras and LiDAR systems is crucial. To meet the demands of this growing…
IAC will run on the famed Monza F1 Circuit to push new boundaries in 2023 and beyond LAS VEGAS – The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) announced that it will partner with the Milan Monza Motor Show (MIMO) to advance its…
LAS VEGAS (NV) and MELBOURNE (AUS) – The leader in fully-autonomous Software Defined Machines (SDM), Applied EV, unveiled an upgraded technology stack specifically designed for the mass-production of fully autonomous vehicles at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.…
LOXO intends to use InnovizOne LiDAR sensors to enable autonomy for its zero-emission autonomous delivery vehicles. TEL AVIV, Israel and BERN, Switzerland – Innoviz Technologies, a technology leader in high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, announced that Switzerland-based LOXO,…