New Jersey lawmakers are advancing legislation, bill S1677, that would require driverless commercial vehicles operating within the state to be equipped with cameras and at least two additional sensor types.
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Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company, involved law enforcement after two teenagers attempted to use one of its self-driving cars without authorization. The incident occurred in California when the youths apparently believed they were taking a legitimate robotaxi ride home.
Ant Group's Robbyant has released LingBot-VLA 2.0, an open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model specifically engineered for robots. This release includes a technical report, an Apache-2.0 licensed codebase, and a 6 billion parameter checkpoint, aiming to bridge the gap between VLA…
Waymo has activated fully driverless operations in Las Vegas, marking a significant expansion of its autonomous ride-hailing service. Riders in Las Vegas will now experience vehicles operating without a human safety driver.
Rémi Cadène, a former scientist on Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot project, has launched a new startup named UMA in Paris. The company aims to develop a rival humanoid robot, named Northstar, and is positioning itself as a European alternative…