UPS holds a minority stake in the autonomous truck development company.
A beachgoing father flying a hobby drone avoids the potential for an unwanted shark encounter, package delivery drone parachute validation, and the North Dakota Department of Transportation gains FAA permissions for expanded drone operations.
A new partnership for national drone safety, increasing the sophistication of autonomous flight systems in difficult environments, and new research into AI perception and decision-making.
All the latest news on unmanned ground, air, and sea vehicles.
The new platform will be designed with autonomous trucking in mind.
A new autonomous vehicle doesn't require a human supervisor on board, Amazon updates its delivery drone design, and mapping oyster reefs with drone flights.
Developing new drone safety procedures, autonomous robot inspects diesel storage tanks, and predicting future flood damage with UAS flights.
The U.S. Army taps a new company to develop recon drones, DJI reveals new safety plans, and autonomous delivery trucks are getting robotic package handlers.
A new form of AI memory could allow robots and autonomous vehicles to imagine future events, think ahead, and react more quickly.
A new drone system for golf course inspection, the U.S. Navy approves funding to develop an underwater robot hand, and Little Roady vehicles hit the road in Rhode Island.
New robotic assistants called 'Astrobees,' developed by NASA to assist in the operation of the International Space Station (ISS), are equipped with a sizeable payload of cameras and sensors to allow the robotics to understand their environment and move about in space.
Researchers at Cornell University have presented evidence that inexpensive stereo camera setups could provide nearly the same accuracy as the expensive LiDAR systems that are currently used in the most common approaches to developing autonomous driving technology.
In this week’s roundup from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, which highlights some of the latest news and headlines in unmanned vehicles and robotics, North Dakota invests in the UAS industry, a new camcopter UAS joins up with search and rescue teams, and New York State trains students for drone public safety operations.
In another example of how unmanned technology can serve animal conservation, researchers used drones equipped with thermal infrared (TIR) cameras to monitor spider monkey populations in the Los Arboles Tulum residential development, outside Tulum, Quitana Roo, Mexico.
