Amazon has acquired Rivr, a startup focused on autonomous robotics. Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 million in a funding round from August 2024, which both Amazon and its CEO's Bezos ...

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DRONES HAVE become a standard weapon of war. Small quadcopters currently inflict the majority of casualties on the battlefield in Ukraine, and in recent weeks Iran has rained thousands of larger ...

Texas has clearly emerged as the leading U.S. testing ground for autonomous freight, with multiple companies now moving from pilot testing to approved, corridor-based, and even commercial driverless ...

JDK 26 moves to general production availability. This short-term release is backed by six months of Premier-level support. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, the latest standard Java release from Oracle, ...

Emre Kazim, co-CEO of Holistic AI, is an expert in AI ethics and governance and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from King's College London. AI governance has become one of the most broadly used and least ...

What happens when you deploy 100 massive, driverless, and fully electric heavy haul trucks at a working mine? After nearly a year of continuous operation, one mining company is already finding out.

During a busy day for Nvidia at the opening of GTC 2026, the tech giant revealed new and expanded partnerships with automobile manufacturers and Uber (UBER) for its autonomous driving systems. The ...

The United States Navy is the most powerful blue-water navy in the world, and it takes a lot to keep it running. While the Navy's aircraft carriers, submarines, and other various types of modern ...

California’s top transportation regulator has made it explicit: Tesla is not operating an autonomous vehicle service in the state. The company holds the same permit as a limousine company. Pat Tsen, ...

FORT EUSTIS, Va. — The U.S. Army officially received a groundbreaking H-60Mx Black Hawk helicopter, extensively modified to fly with or without a pilot at the controls. This next-generation optimally ...

D.C.’s Department of Transportation has pumped the brakes for years in an attempt to sabotage the rollout of autonomous vehicles in the nation’s capital. In 2020, the D.C. Council passed a law ...