Self-Driving Bus is Now Operating in Australia

First self-driving bus is now serving customers in New South Wales, Australia. It is serving the Marian Grove Retirement Village in Toormina, a suburb of Coffs Harbour. Using the BusBot app (iOS and Android), users will be able to hail the autonomous BusBot directly from their smartphone. Via’s advanced algorithms will enable multiple riders to …

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Baidu and Udelv Will Test Driverless Trucks for Walmart in the USA

Baidu, who is China’s version of Google, has entered a partnership deal with California-based autonomous delivery start-up Udelv that will see self-driving vans powered providing delivery services to American retailers such as Walmart from February. Baidu announced the deal with Udelv at a launch event for its latest open self-driving platform – Apollo 3.5 – …

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Neural interfaces to connect humans and AI – SU Global Summit 2018

Tarin Ziyaee is Director of Algorithms, CTRL-Labs. Ctrl-labs is developing neural interfaces to connect humans and AI. Ctrl-labs is create a kit to enable neural control and interface AI Ctrl-labs Hardware Robust, multimodal biosensing Comfortable skin-contact sensors reveal the neural signals underlying fine motor control Inertial measurements compensate for external forces Safe, non-invasive, and comfortable …

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Google Waymo launching paid self-driving car service in Phoenix in 2018 and California likely in 2019

Waymo has been testing self-driving cars without any safety drivers in Phoenix for nearly a year. Waymo will launch the first commercial program in Phoenix within months. They have applied California regulators to begin testing without safety drivers. The commercial self-driving in California will likely start in 2019. Waymo is buying 62,000 plug-in hybrid Pacifica …

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Uber self-driving trucks making deliveries across Arizona since November

Uber has been sending self-driving trucks on delivery runs across Arizona since November. . After testing its technology earlier in 2017, Uber began contracting with trucking companies to use its own autonomous Volvo big rigs to take overloads as they traverse the state, it disclosed. In Uber‘s current program, human truckers meet the self-driving truck …

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