Autonomous vehicles

Archer, Anduril unveil autonomous aircraft platform for defense, commercial markets

Thunder is aimed at 'anyone who operates Apache, anyone who operates armed reconnaissance helicopters'

|ByREUTERS
Anduril and Archer Aviation's Thunder autonomous VTOL aircraft platform
Airwayz and Tenna System collaborate to secure the skies

Airwayz, Tenna fuse spectrum intelligence into OVERWATCH airspace‑control platform

Platform upgrade by Tenna and Airwayz gives operators a clearer RF map for safer autonomous flights in busy contested flights

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Robotican's hybrid Rooster drone and autonomous dog robot

Robotican: Robots built for the front lines, and below them

From tunnels to missile-hit buildings, Robotican’s unmanned systems take soldiers out of danger.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Saronic's Corsair USV is described as “capable of operating at ranges over 1,000 nautical miles and can support 1,000-pound payloads."

US uses one‑way attack sea drones against Iran for first time, CENTCOM says

CENTCOM says US forces struck Iranian air defenses, radars and boats using one‑way sea drones, marking their first deployment in the war.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM

The semi-automation revolution

The fascinating story of a bricklaying robot

JANUARY 16, 2020ByMARGARET QUAMME
A ROBOT GIVES a demonstration at a tech conference in Las Vegas on January 8. The book explores the leaps forward and backward in robot technolog

Intel demos autonomous car equipped only with cameras in Jerusalem

Mobileye, Intel's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, showed the car navigating through four-way intersections with no traffic lights, and changing lanes to weave into traffic.

JANUARY 7, 2020ByREUTERS
A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem

The road ahead for self-driving cars

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), driverless cars, robo-cars or robotic cars, appear to be the upcoming thing.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019ByJASON BLACKSHAW