The U.S. AV Jobs Coalition will share resources, statistics, and initiatives that show the workforce impacts of AVs on the U.S. economy.

IDTechEx released a report that provides outlooks for the next twenty years in the autonomous driving market.

KUKA introduced three new mobile robots in 2023: the KMR iisy mobile cobot, KMP 1500P, and KMP 600-S diffDrive.

Comau and One Equity Partners said they expect the transaction to close by the end of 2024 as the industrial automation vendor branches out from automotive.

Waymo currently runs commercial, fully autonomous robotaxi operations in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.

Atlas has also ordered Kodiak Driver-equipped driverless trucks that will deliver frac sand across the Permian Basin’s private lease roads.

The Indy Autonomous Challenge set a new autonomous vehicle speed record at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed with the new AV-24 vehicle.

Continental is using AWS cloud services to accelerate innovation in its mobile robot software stack for new markets such as agriculture.

Silicon Foundry associate Lucas Tesler explains why humanoid robotics developers should conduct pilot testing well before commercial rollouts.

Helm.ai says its new VidGen-1 model can cut development time and cost for Level 2 to 4 autonomous vehicles, robots, and drones.

FANUC America says it has expanded its footprint to more than 2 million square feet and has created over 400 jobs since 2019.

ABB Robotics released its first modular industrial robot arms in 2023. Its fifth-generation robots expanded the company’s range with four new models.

3D printing enables novel, lightweight structures for robotics, as well as new ways to use robots in manufacturing, says Replique.

Slip Robotics simplifies trailer loading and unloading with its SlipBot ALR, a heavy-duty mobile robot.

GrayMatter Robotics says its AI-based systems can double or quadruple productivity as its customer base grows and hires more staffers.

Wayve says PRISM-1 enables scalable, realistic re-simulations of complex scenes with minimal engineering or labeling input. 

Realtime Robotics is bringing its motion planning for industrial and collaborative robots to market with Mitsubishi Electric.

To date, General Motors has invested more than $8 billion into Cruise, and in 2023 alone, the company lost $3.48 billion.

Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX can generate synthetic data for robotics, says NVIDIA, which is presenting over 50 research papers at CVPR.

Beep discusses its pilot of Miki shuttles with Sustainability Partners and the Honolulu DoT at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

Waymo plans to widen its robotaxi service area, while Zoox said it will begin testing autonomous vehicles in two more cities.

The Foxconn computing center will be anchored by NVIDIA’s GB200 super chip servers and enable electric vehicle and smart city development.