The age of robotaxis, long the preserve of science fiction, is now a reality, at least in a handful of American cities. It took just over a decade to get from the DARPA Grand Challenges to the start ...

The Pentagon announced the Replicator Initiative with fanfare in 2023, aiming to field vast numbers of affordable, expendable drones as a strategic counter to China. However, by 2025, the program was ...

House lawmakers released the BUILD America 250 Act on May 17 with a federal framework regulating self-driving trucks and autonomous commercial vehicle safety standards. The proposal would require ...

Autonomous truck developers say technical barriers are largely resolved, shifting attention to scaling, manufacturing capacity and fleet operations. Executives predict driverless trucks will enter ...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), in development for years, have only recently become safe enough for mass adoption. Now, events like Uber’s new partnerships with AV companies Zoox and Rivian signal that ...

Autonomous ship maker Saronic raised $1.75 billion and more than doubled its valuation to $9.25 billion. The company is working closely with the Navy and aims to build more than 20 ships a year by ...

FORT EUSTIS, Va. — The U.S. Army officially received a groundbreaking H-60Mx Black Hawk helicopter, extensively modified to fly with or without a pilot at the controls. This next-generation optimally ...

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...

A new naval autonomous ship project isn’t much to write home about these days, but the new Liberty Class being developed by Blue Water Autonomy in partnership with Damen Shipyards stands out because ...

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Uber wants to capitalize on the emergence of self-driving cars — not by handing the wheel to AI-powered drivers, but rather by tapping the mountain of potentially valuable data the rideshare company ...

If a chorus of wide-eyed boosters and enthralled journalists are to be believed, self-driving cars from companies like Waymo, Tesla, and Zoox can bring about road safety nirvana — if only US ...