Category: AUTONOMOUS

GOODYEAR EXTENDS AIRLESS TIRE TECHNOLOGY TO AUTONOMOUS STARSHIP ROBOTS

GOODYEAR EXTENDS AIRLESS TIRE TECHNOLOGY TO AUTONOMOUS STARSHIP ROBOTS

| January 6, 2022

Goodyear developed a specially engineered airless tire designed to extend tire life and reduce maintenance activities for Starship’s delivery fleet The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) announced it has developed and is testing a custom-engineered non-pneumatic (airless) tire (NPT) to support Starship delivery robots. Starship Technologies, a Goodyear Ventures portfolio company, builds and […]

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Autonomous Trucking Milestone: Pony.ai Forms Joint Venture with Sinotrans, One of China’s Leading Logistics Firms, to Further Deployment of Autonomous Driving Technologies

Autonomous Trucking Milestone: Pony.ai Forms Joint Venture with Sinotrans, One of China’s Leading Logistics Firms, to Further Deployment of Autonomous Driving Technologies

| January 6, 2022

With operations commencing in early 2022, the joint venture will initially feature a fleet of over 100 trucks Pony.ai, a leading global autonomous driving technology company, announced that PonyTron, its autonomous trucking business unit, formed a joint venture with Sinotrans, part of China Merchants Group and one of China’s leading logistics and freight forwarding companies. […]

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Udelv Unveils Autonomous Cab-Less Transporter, driven by Mobileye

Udelv Unveils Autonomous Cab-Less Transporter, driven by Mobileye

| January 4, 2022

Udelv, a Silicon Valley venture-backed company, unveiled the first cab-less autonomous electric delivery vehicle for multi-stop delivery at the Consumer Electronics Show The multi-stop electric delivery vehicle features a proprietary, self-contained, hot swappable modular cargo pod called the uPod.  It can carry up to 2,000 pounds of goods, make up to 80 stops per cycle […]

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GreenPower Announces Test Rides and Demonstration of Its AV Star with Perrone Robotics

GreenPower Announces Test Rides and Demonstration of Its AV Star with Perrone Robotics

| January 3, 2022

AV Star is the nation’s first fully-autonomous, zero-emissions, all-electric, ADA-compliant, FMVSS certified and Buy America shuttle GreenPower Motor Company Inc. manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission electric-powered vehicles serving the cargo, delivery, shuttle, transit, and school bus markets, announced its AV Star will be on display and used as a demo vehicle at CES® 2022 as part of Perrone Robotic’s Innovation Alley […]

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TuSimple Becomes First to Successfully Operate Driver Out, Fully Autonomous Semi-truck on Open Public Roads

TuSimple Becomes First to Successfully Operate Driver Out, Fully Autonomous Semi-truck on Open Public Roads

| December 30, 2021

Specially upfitted class 8 semi-truck navigated 80 miles without a human in the vehicle, traveling on surface streets and highways, interacting naturally with other motorists TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP), a global autonomous driving technology company, successfully completed the world’s first fully autonomous semi-truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle and without […]

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Waymo and Zeekr to collaborate on all-electric, fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicle

Waymo and Zeekr to collaborate on all-electric, fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicle

| December 29, 2021

Waymo will take delivery of the vehicles in the United States and will then integrate its fully autonomous Waymo Driver into the vehicle platform Geely Holding Group’s (Geely) premium electric brand, Zeekr, will collaborate with Waymo on the development of a new pure electric vehicle for deployment in the Waymo One autonomous ride-hailing fleet in the United […]

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