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First personal robocar

Tensor Auto in the US has developed the first driverless car for personal use with over 400 distributed ARM cores and eight NVIDIA GPUs for the self-driving systems. The ‘Robocar’ has a vertically integrated Level 4 autonomy stack, and a comprehensive...

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3D printing a motor

Researchers in the US are working on a platform that can produce a complete rotary motor in one pass with 3D printing. The team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has already developed a multi-material 3D-printing platform...

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Wireless power for UAV surveillance

UAV maker Arion is to use a wireless power system from GuRu Wireless to provide endurance for surveillance applications. This will enable the UAV from Arion in South Korea, previously known as rgblab, to stay airborne for over 96 hours...

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Using 5G for UAV detection

Ericsson has demonstrated the use of 5G technology to detect UAVs in flight. The live proof of concept integrates sensing and spatial location of passive objects into existing 5G mobile networks using 5G signals to sense the surroundings...

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Adversarial umbrella UAV attack

A vulnerability in camera systems allows a simple umbrella to control and even crash a UAV. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, discovered the security vulnerability in autonomous target-tracking UAVs and developed...

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Co-simulation tackles driverless accidents

Developers in India have used a combination of simulation and an accident database that allows autonomous system behaviour to be exercised under controlled yet realistic conditions. The framework developed at Vayavya Labs uses...

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Swarm control

Scout AI has demonstrated orchestration software running a fleet of autonomous air and ground systems using natural language prompts. The Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator, which uses a Vision–Language–Action (VLA) foundation...

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Safety framework for driverless cars

Researchers in the US have developed a framework to make Modular Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) more practical. These modular vehicles can link or separate while on the road, offering flexible transport for passengers and freight...

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World record for UAV speed

Two enthusiasts have extended their world record for UAV speed. The air-cooled Blackbird UAV achieved a speed of 626.4 kph (389.2 mph), breaking their previous record of 580 kph (360 mph). The peak speed was actually higher at 655 kph...

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Autonomous space launch system

Researchers in China are building an intelligent space transportation system for autonomous reusable launch vehicles that can be relaunched in as little as an hour. The AI-enabled system includes smart test launches, high-reliability...