Automotive

Bosch plans to supply Kodiak with a variety of hardware components, including sensors and vehicle actuation components.

Mobileye is acquiring Mentee Robotics for $900 million to pursue leadership in both autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.

NVIDIA released Cosmos, GR00T, and Alpamayo open models to help developers build reasoning machines including robots and vehicles.

At CES, Boston Dynamics reunited with Google, demoed Atlas for the first time in public, debuted a new production version of the humanoid, and announced a roadmap to deploy Atlas in Hyundai factories worldwide.

In a 60 Minutes segment, Boston Dynamics provided a glimpse at how its Atlas humanoid is becoming more capable.

Comau has launched MyCo, a new family of six lightweight cobots designed for safe, flexible, and cost-effective industrial automation.

Galbot’s flagship robot is the G1, a mobile manipulator with a human-like torso, two arms, and a mobile base.

With Newlab, Flexxbotics, which digitalizes industrial automation, is establishing a presence in the heart of U.S. manufacturing.

Lidar maker Luminar has filed for Chapter 11 and plans to sell off its assets after Volvo terminated a key contract.

Helm.ai said the architecture enables automakers to deploy ADAS through L4 capabilities using their existing development fleets.

Inbolt said its new guidance system on robot arms enables flexible, fast, accurate, and low-cost bin picking for unstructured environments.

In its investigation, the NHTSA said a Waymo AV in Atlanta failed to remain stopped when approaching a school bus.

Lumotive has expanded with new leaders and new sites worldwide, meeting surging demand for its programmable optics platform.

Waymo is starting manual driving in its newest cities this week. The company did not specify a timeline for commercial robotaxi launch.

thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering will provide automotive expertise and expand market access, says Agile Robots.

Waymo plans to more than double the number of cities it will operate a commercial robotaxi service in next year.

Zoox is accepting its first public riders in San Francisco through its Explorer program, which gives riders early access.

Waymo said it has entered a new phase of commercial scale, doubling the number of cities it operates in without a human specialist in the car.

Teradar claimed its terahertz chip technology is superior to lidar and radar for all-weather vision for autonomous vehicles.

The second A2RL autonomous racing event in the United Arab Emirates is challenging university teams’ AI drivers.

Waymo also expanded its service area in the San Francisco Bay Area. Take a look at the new robotaxi map.

Automotive services company Holman has launched a robotics division to provide end-to-end support for industrial automation deployments.