Siemens to digitise Sydney rail network
Siemens Mobility has been awarded two contracts to upgrade the rail network of the Australian city of Sydney, including installing a new traffic management system (TMS) and modernising the [...]
Elon Musk unveils Las Vegas Loop
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has unveiled its Vegas Loop at the Las Vegas Convention. The Loop is now operational and will cut journey times through the convention from 25 [...]
Chicago modernises rail fleet with Alstom carriages
Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply Chicago with modern rail carriages featuring enhanced connectivity and enhanced maintenance and diagnostic systems, allowing Chicago’s rail network Metra greater visibility [...]
Optimus, Polaris to develop autonomous LSVs
Optimus Ride and Polaris plan to bring fully autonomous electric low speed vehicles (LSV) to market under the Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) brand. Under a joint development agreement, Polaris [...]
Kodiak and Hesai to Integrate lidar onto Kodiak Trucks
Autonomous trucking start-up Kodiak Robotics is partnering with lidar specialist Hesai Technology to integrate the latter’s 360-degree scanning lidars onto Kodiak’s mirror pods. With long-range capabilities, Hesai’s lidars will [...]
Pipistrel picks Honeywell Avionics for heavy lift UAV
Pipistrel has selected Honeywell’s Attitude Heading Reference System and Air Data Module for its Nuuva V300 cargo UAV. The technologies provide navigation and motion-sensing data and will work in [...]
Honda launches level-3 self-driving car
Japanese car maker Honda has launched a limited edition of its Legend sedan equipped with level-3 SAE autonomous technology. The Japanese transport ministry said it was the first commercially [...]
Cruise acquires self driving startup Voyage
General Motors self-driving subsidiary Cruise is acquiring autonomous vehicle startup Voyage. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Voyage is an offshoot of Udacity, an online learning service. [...]
Reliable Robotics remote flies commercial aircraft
Autonomous flight tech startup Reliable Robotics has successively flown a commercial aircraft remotely from the ground over fifty miles away in a series of tests this February. The remote [...]
Rolls-Royce to power Vertical’s eVOTL UAM
Rolls-Royce’s technology will power an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) aircraft from eVTOL startup Vertical Aerospace. Capable of travelling 120 miles at speeds of over 200 mph, carrying four passengers [...]
Blackberry and Desay launch smart cabin controller
Chinese automotive electronics specialist Desay and Canadian firm Blackberry have launched a dual-screen virtual smart cabin domain controller to support safer driving. The new technology is available on the [...]
Volvo and Foretellix aim for massive AV testing
Volvo’s self driving division and Israeli firm Foretellix are working on large-scale verification of self driving vehicles on highways and confined areas such as mines. The two companies are [...]
