Tokyo police to introduce AI-based accident reconstruction system
The Japan Times — The system will combine AI with 3D spatial data from accident sites and footage from security cameras, reducing the need for on-site inspections.
Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Robotics and Autonomous Systems refers to artificial intelligence operating in physical environments through machines such as mobile robots and self-driving vehicles. Truncated covers hardware developments, software updates, safety regulations, and commercial deployments.
Smartwatches could learn to read your hands
Tech Xplore — Northwestern University engineers are investigating new ways to tell what the hands are doing—including peering beneath the skin to watch muscles and tendons move. The new methods don't use high-tech cameras, medical scans or advanced imaging techniques. Instead, they use a common smartwatch.
Robot hand learns nimble moves with fewer dropped objects
Tech Xplore — Manipulating an object with one hand is a balancing act. Fingers must release and renew their grip while keeping the object from slipping away, even with the palm facing downward.
Waymo expands to Torrance, Manhattan Beach and other corners of L.A. County
Los Angeles Times — The robotaxi company Waymo is expanding its Los Angeles service area into South Bay and adding popular destinations such as Universal Studios.
Your Humanoid Robot Might Also Be Your Smart Home Hub: Disembodied Neo Head From 1X
Humanoid AI connects walking and object handling without demonstrations of complete task sequences
Tech Xplore — A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence.
Investing in Tutor Intelligence
a16z.news — a16z leads Tutor Intelligence’s Series B
HD Hyundai Robotics partners with Palantir on AI solutions
Yonhap News Agency — SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- HD Hyundai Robotics, a robotics solutions unit of South Korea&ap...
The company behind 'PUBG' wants to bring video game AI into the real world
Fast Company — Krafton is betting its experience creating AI teammates can help humanoid robots understand people. But translating virtual intelligence into physical reality is a different challenge.
Ex-Tesla Autopilot head calls vision-only a 'weird religious stance'
Electrek — GM's Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla Autopilot in 2015-2016, says dropping radar for vision-only self-driving is a stance that 'ignores physics.'
Kodiak’s Autonomy Readiness Measure Reaches 99%
kodiak.ai — Kodiak’s Autonomy Readiness Measure reaches 99%, putting it ahead of pace to launch driverless long-haul service on I-45 by the end of 2026.
T-Mobile US hunts for engineers as humanoid efforts broaden
sdxcentral.com — Operator looking for physical AI expert to push its robotic edge footprint
Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control
MIT Technology Review — Living digital twins are helping industrial plants run more like living systems, and setting the stage for industries that work in sync.
Kodiak AI and DTL to Deploy 75 Unsupervised Autonomous Trucks
kodiak.ai — Kodiak AI and DTL Transport sign a binding agreement to deploy 75 driverless trucks on Sun Belt interstate routes under Kodiak’s Driver-As-A-Service model.
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