Self-Driving Truck Startup Kodiak Raises $125 Million in Series B Round
On November 11, self-driving truck startup Kodiak announced that it had raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B round for a total of $165 million raised to date.
Tag: SELF DRIVING
Can Autonomous Vehicles Self-Learn the Rules of the Road?
What if, instead of hard-coding road rules into self-driving algorithms, AI agents were free to come up with their own ways of safely and efficiently sharing the road?
MIT, TU Wien & IST Austria Brain-Based AI Self-Drives With Just a Few Neurons
An international research team is suggesting AI might become even more efficient and reliable if it learns to think more like worms.
Beijing to Build the World’s First High-Level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone
On September 11, city official stated that Beijing plans to build the world’s first high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone, whichContinue Reading
Intel Lab Transforms Your Phone into a Robot for $50
Intel Labs researchers have proposed a novel method for building a robot called “OpenBot” on just a US$50 budget.
2019 In Review: 10 Open-Sourced AI Datasets
In the conclusion to our year-end series, Synced spotlights ten datasets that were open-sourced in 2019.
LiDAR Industry Hits Impasse: Was Elon Musk Right After All?
Since the business mindset is to focus on short-term feasible technologies, the lack of serious buyers is the real problem for the LiDAR industry.
Waymo Teams Up With DeepMind; Lyft Shares Large-Scale Dataset
Synced Global AI Weekly July 28th
Researchers Fool LiDAR with 3D-Printed Adversarial Objects
Researchers from Baidu Research, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have published a method for generating adversarial objects that can befuddle the LiDAR point cloud and compromise security in vehicles using the tech.
Alibaba, Baidu and Xiaomi Open-Source Their SOTA Research
Synced Global AI Weekly July 7th
A Round Up Of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC)
Synced Global AI Weekly March 24th
CES 2019 Cools on Self-Driving; Digital Cockpits, V2X & In-Vehicle Shopping Drive Mobility Market
Each year global automakers, component manufacturers and tech companies flock to Las Vegas to promote their visions of future mobility at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Synced visited CES 2019 this week to check out new products and chart trends in the mobility market.
Baidu Unveils Major Apollo Intelligent Driving Ecosystem Advancements at CES 2019
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas today Chinese tech giant Baidu introduced Apollo Enterprise, a new suite of customizable autonomous driving and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) solutions for mass production vehicles. The company also released Apollo 3.5, the latest and most sophisticated iteration of its open autonomous driving platform, which now supports complex urban and suburban driving environments.
China’s 350 kph Self-Driving Train Gets Ready to Hit the Rails
On April 29th, the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of China’s State Council announced that China Railway Signal & Communication Corp (CRSC) had completed lab testing of their high-speed rail self-driving system (C3 + ATO)…
Baidu Apollo Releases Massive Self-driving Dataset; Teams Up With Berkeley DeepDrive
Apollo Scape was released under Baidu’s autonomous driving platform Apollo, which Baidu hopes will become “the Android of the auto industry.” Apollo gives developers access to a complete set of service solutions and open-source codes and…