Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends poop to Seattle startup, leading to discovery of new kinds… Read More
A furtive autonomous vehicle startup out of Bend, Ore. has raised $8 million from undisclosed investors. Azevtec confirmed the investment to GeekWire but provided few additional details because the company is operating… Read More
Police in Tempe, Ariz., have determined in a new report that the safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber was distracted by a TV show she was streaming… Read More
Uber executives are providing an update on their plans to put flying cars in the air by 2020, with commercial rides beginning in 2023, but the most pointed comments from… Read More
Running over virtual zombies might seem like a strange way to fight motion sickness in a moving car, but that’s exactly what Apple is suggesting passengers do in patent applications… Read More
It’s a thrilling time for technology, with innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics propelling society ever faster forward. But is it too fast? That’s a question that came up more… Read More
A woman who was struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle on Sunday in Tempe, Ariz., died from her injuries. In response, the company has pulled its fleet of autonomous cars… Read More
Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm signaled that it’s doubling down on autonomous flight technologies by participating in a $15 million funding round for Utah-based Fortem Technologies, which sells a miniaturized… Read More
It’s not exactly a revelation that the Boeing Co. is interested in autonomous flight, including robo-planes that can fly people. But in a Bloomberg News interview, Boeing’s CEO says air… Read More
Amazon had a big week. The company announced plans to found a new healthcare company in partnership with bank JPMorgan Chase and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. The companies promise to… Read More
Back in June, Pittsburgh and Paris were unwittingly connected by a comment from President Donald Trump defending his decision to pull out of the international Paris agreement on climate change.… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Harnessing the power of data generated by a population of 1.38 billion people — 1.1 billion of whom are on smart phones — Chinese technology giant Baidu… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Beep beep! Will Amazon’s Treasure Truck have to move to the right to let Toyota’s vision for roaming retail get past somewhere down the road? After saying… Read More
Seattle is an innovation hub with transportation pain points aching to be solved. For those reasons, the city seems like the obvious choice to pioneer self-driving cars in Washington now that… Read More
Call it a flying car, or an air taxi, or a pilotless passenger aircraft: Whatever it is, Airbus’ Vahana aircraft is ready for flight tests in eastern Oregon after making… Read More
Boeing’s venture capital arm, Boeing HorizonX, says it has made a substantial investment in Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based startup that focuses on technologies for autonomous flight. Boeing and Near… Read More
Fully automated cars are looked at by many in the tech community as a near certainty, maybe even in the next few years, but a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot… Read More
Boeing says it has struck a deal to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a leader in the field of autonomous flight, to beef up its own capabilities on that frontier. Aurora… Read More
Buckle up, because a new report from Madrona Venture Group predicts we’re speeding toward a self-driving future faster than you might think. The report from the Seattle-based venture capital firm… Read More
Imagine a future where you no longer have to say, “I think the pizza guy is at the door,” and instead proclaim, “The pizza car is out front!” In a… Read More
As a trusted journalist with years of experience in the profession, I never thought about just saying, “I’m with the news, dude,” as a way to get a subject to… Read More
In the year 2037, non-autonomous vehicles will be as much of a curiosity as riding a horse is today, tech billionaire Elon Musk says. Musk also says that the rapid… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is already seeing results of his new executive order that encourages self-driving technology testing. Torc Robotics, a Virginia Tech spinout developing autonomous vehicle technology, just completed… Read More
EVERETT, Wash. – The Boeing Co. says it’s on a path that could ultimately lead to self-flying commercial passenger airplanes, starting with simulations and ground-based experiments this year and progressing to flight… Read More
Mighty AI, the Seattle-based startup that provides training data as a service for computer vision and natural language AI, is “going where the action is” and opening a location in Detroit… Read More
Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the leader of the company’s autonomous vehicle technology push and a central figure in a lawsuit filed earlier this year by Google’s self-driving car spinout Waymo. Uber… Read More
Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen are among the investors putting another $29 million into Echodyne, the Intellectual Ventures spin-out that’s developing low-cost, miniaturized radar systems for drones and self-driving… Read More
A federal judge ruled Monday that Anthony Levandowski, the engineer leading Uber’s self-driving car efforts, must stop work for the ride-hailing company while a lawsuit against him is litigated. The… Read More
It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun out from Google as another Alphabet subsidiary last year. First… Read More
Amazon has had a team dedicated to researching autonomous vehicles for more than a year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal this morning. The group isn’t working on building… Read More