Dubai deploys tiny robot cars to police city streets
The self-driving police car will offer 360-degree surveillance technology and can be programmed to patrol areas. It will be able to use biometric scanners to look for suspects, identify suspicious objects, launch a mini drone and even give chase to suspects. The robot, named the O-R3, was developed by Singapore start-up OTSAW Digital.
Month: June 2017
Ford realizes it should have an AI and robotics team
It’s no secret that Ford has been lagging when it comes to the ‘futuristic’ tech that its rivals are already on top of. It’s still three years away from releasing a long-range electric car (GM already has the Bolt on the market) and only launched its self-driving focused ‘ mobility’ subsidiary little over a year ago.
NVIDIA vs. Alphabet in the World of AI Technology — The Motley Fool
((( NVIDIA NASDAQ:NVDA) and Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOG) NASDAQ:GOOGL) have turned out to be the unlikeliest of rivals in a slugfest for a greater share of the artificial intelligence (AI) market. So far, Alphabet has been using NVIDIA’s GPUs (graphics processing units) to power AI applications on the Google Cloud Platform, though it looks like the search giant has now decided to go it alone in this lucrative space.
Elon Musk’s boring update suggests drilling work is well and truly under way
Elon Musk hit Twitter on Wednesday to give us a boring update. The billionaire entrepreneur said The Boring Company had finished drilling the first segment of tunnel beneath Los Angeles, heralding a successful start to his company’s bold mission to drill a vast network of tunnels criss-crossing the city in a bid to ease traffic congestion at street level.
Baidu leads China’s self-driving charge in Silicon Valley
SUNNYVALE, Calif. Baidu, China’s leading internet search company, is set to announce the first vehicle manufacturing partners for its self-driving software next week, including Chery Automobile, one of the country’s biggest carmakers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Hummer factory gets second life making electric cars
A U.S. auto plant that once made giant gas-guzzlers will now make cars that don’t need gas at all. AM General, which previously built the Hummer H2, sold its factory in South Bend, Indiana to the electric carmaker SF Motors, both firms announced Thursday.