Waymo currently runs commercial, fully autonomous robotaxi operations in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
Wing gears up for drone delivery growth with updated FAA exemption
Wing says the updated exemptions for its detect and avoid approach will allow it to safely scale in the US.
Everyday Robot Project at X to push general-purpose robot development
In its Everyday Robot Project, X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” has been training robots using a variety of machine learning techniques in the hopes of developing general-purpose robots.
Verb Surgical debuts robot-assisted surgery prototype
Verb Surgical, Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) joint venture with Google parent Alphabet‘s (NSDQ:GOOGL) Verily Life Sciences, said today that it debuted its 1st digital surgery prototype to its collaboration partners at Ethicon Endo-Surgery and J&J. Robotic surgery, a fast growing field dominated by Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) and its da Vinci system, isn’t using robots yet, according to Verily CEO Andrew Conrad. In…