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Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving teams up with Luminar for advanced LiDAR

Green Car Congress

This perception data models the vehicle’s environment, both near and far, by detecting objects, vehicles, pedestrians and other challenging obstacles. —Luminar founder and chief executive officer, Austin Russell. Luminar is funded by Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Canvas Ventures, GVA Capital and 1517 Fund.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. In recent years, cloud computing has become the dominant method of providing computing infrastructure for Internet services.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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Goal!

Plug In Partners

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

Cars That Think

We propose Kinodynamic Fabrics as an approach for the specification, solution and simultaneous execution of multiple motion tasks in real-time while being reactive to dynamism in the environment. With the RPD 35, a two-person crew can install pile more productivity than traditional methods. ARL ] Thanks, Kostas! ARL ] Thanks, Kostas!

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Waymo leads robotaxi industry, at least for now

Teslarati

The company also intends to expand to Austin, Atlanta, and even internationally into Tokyo, as noted in a CNBC report. However, GM has noted that it will now focus on the development of personal autonomous vehicles instead of robotaxis. The Market Dynamics: The global ride-sharing market, estimated at $123.08

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Video Friday: Welcome to Fall

Cars That Think

IEEE SSRR 2023 : 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. For the purposes of this test, we force Digit to fall in a controlled environment to demonstrate our new self-righting and recovering ability. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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