Ridesharing Lunar Lander
Orbit Beyond is providing a ridesharing lunar lander with a first moon mission in 2020. #SpaceAccess2019
Orbit Beyond is providing a ridesharing lunar lander with a first moon mission in 2020. #SpaceAccess2019
Tesla will showcase the full self-driving computer (FSD) on Monday and will provide test drives of Tesla’s that are using the FSD computer.
Two centuries after the Industrial Revolution, robotics and deep learning are creating another paradigm shift in manufacturing. As more parts of production become automated, what will human workers gain and what will they lose? #TCRobotics
Autonomous vehicles can’t be as good as human drivers. They need to be better. Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson and Uber ATG Chief scientist Raquel Urtasun dig into the self-driving stack and how AI is used to help vehicles understand and predict what’s happening in the world
Robots and humans are working and living together more than ever, and that means we have to watch out for one another. #TCRobotics
NVIDIA’s VP of Engineering Claire Delaunay is showcasing the company’s push to democratize robotics development.
Nextbigfuture is live blogging at the Techcrunch Robotics and AI 2019 conference and covering the panel on Building a Better Robotics Company
EU researchers have developed a graphene-enabled detector for terahertz light that is faster and more sensitive than existing room-temperature technologies. This can lead to a fully digital low-cost terahertz camera system.
Google has a new end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer to power speech input in Gboard. It is only 80 megabytes in size and can work offline.
Apple will pay Qualcomm license fees that they withheld. They reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement.
Trucks are the backbone of the supply-chain delivery system. 70% of goods are delivered by truck. The U.S. trucking industry generated $700.3 billion in economic activity in 2017. Self-driving trucks will revolutionize logistics. It can bring down the cost by about 4 times and can increase the distance driven in a day by 2.5 times. …