autonomous vehicles

Odyssey unveils Odyssey-3 world model for robots, cars

Odyssey, an AI lab in Palo Alto, released Odyssey-3 on Thursday. It is a foundation world model that the company says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play Grand Theft Auto V. A research…

Reuters: Tesla pushed regulator to ease self-driving review

A Reuters investigation published Wednesday found that Tesla has run a pressure campaign aimed at getting its "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" system approved across the European Union, and that the campaign is working. The report says Tesla pushed regulators to make…

Nvidia launches Halos safety system for autonomous vehicles and robots

Nvidia has expanded its Halos safety platform with a broad push to embed safety checks across every layer of physical AI, from autonomous vehicles to humanoid robots, as the company and its partners prepare for a wave of machine deployments…

Waymo plans to launch robotaxi service in Singapore by 2028

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo began offering fully autonomous rides to the public in Las Vegas this week, marking the company's first commercial entry into Nevada and its latest in a rapid string of U.S. expansions.

Waymo, partners agree to launch driverless taxis in Tokyo in 2027

Waymo, Japanese taxi operator Nihon Kotsu, and mobility platform GO announced on Monday that they have formally agreed to launch what would be Japan's first commercial driverless taxi service in Tokyo in 2027, moving beyond supervised testing toward fully autonomous…

Europe gets its first driverless robotaxi rides in Zagreb

Pony.ai and Verne on Thursday launched fully driverless robotaxi test rides with passengers on public roads in Zagreb, Croatia — the first time a European robotaxi program has operated without a human safety operator in the vehicle.

Tesla pulls FSD update minutes after rollout began

Tesla began pushing Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3.9 to customer vehicles on Tuesday afternoon and withdrew the pending update from owners' cars within roughly 20 minutes, according to multiple owners who had been downloading it. The company has offered no explanation…

Uber and Wayve begin carrying robotaxi passengers in London

Uber and British autonomous driving startup Wayve began carrying passengers in London on Thursday, making the city the first in the United Kingdom to offer a robotaxi service and only the second in Europe after Zagreb, Croatia.

France begins testing Tesla’s self-driving tech ahead of EU vote

France has started testing Tesla's Full Self-Driving system on two vehicles, marking a reversal from the country's opposition to the technology just weeks ago and setting the stage for a potential EU-wide approval vote as early as October.

Tesla publishes FSD safety data ahead of Oct. 6 EU vote

Tesla published what it called its most detailed public safety dataset for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe late on Monday, five weeks before a regulatory committee vote that could extend the system's approval across all 27 EU member states. The…

Hyundai partners with Nvidia to bring self-driving tech to mass-market vehicles by 2028

Hyundai Motor Company laid out a sweeping autonomous driving and artificial intelligence strategy at its 2026 CEO Investor Day on Wednesday, announcing plans to deploy Level 2+ self-driving technology in its first mass-produced software-defined vehicle in 2028 through a deepened…

Waymo to launch its first EU robotaxi service in Munich

Alphabet -owned Waymo announced on Tuesday that it will begin testing autonomous vehicles in Munich in the coming weeks, marking the first step toward launching a commercial ride-hailing service in Germany by the end of 2027. Munich will be Waymo's…

Waymo unveils its first custom chip for self-driving cars at Hot Chips 2026

Waymo Alphabet Inc. presented its first custom silicon for autonomous driving at Hot Chips 2026 on Monday, detailing a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC designed to process and fuse raw sensor data in real time aboard its robotaxis.

Uber launches Baidu’s driverless robotaxis in Dubai

Uber Technologies and Baidu on Thursday launched fully driverless Apollo Go robotaxis on the Uber platform in Dubai, marking the first real-world deployment of a multi-year partnership aimed at scaling thousands of autonomous vehicles across global markets.

Uber launches autonomous rides in Europe for first time, starting in Zagreb

Uber Technologies, Pony.ai, and Croatian startup Verne launched autonomous rides in Zagreb on Wednesday, making the Croatian capital the first European city where riders can book a self-driving vehicle through the Uber app.

China’s EV exports more than double as makers eye US robotaxi market

Chinese electric vehicle exports surged to 2.4 million units in the first half of 2026, more than double the figure from a year earlier, as domestic overcapacity pushes automakers to sell overseas at a pace not seen before. At the…

Tesla pressed Dutch regulator to hide FSD safety data, Reuters finds

The Dutch road authority that approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving system four months ago is refusing to disclose how it determined the technology is safe, citing an obligation to protect the automaker's commercial secrets — a stance that safety experts say…

Uber and Wayve win London robotaxi licenses, beating Waymo and Baidu to market

Uber Technologies and British artificial intelligence startup Wayve Technologies have secured private hire vehicle licenses from Transport for London, clearing the way for the first supervised robotaxi rides available to regular passengers in the city.

Nvidia opens self-driving AI model for commercial use

NVIDIA on Tuesday made Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, commercially available under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license. The release removes the licensing restrictions that had previously confined the Alpamayo model family to research use, opening…

Uber now has over 30 autonomous vehicle deals worldwide

Uber has assembled a sprawling network of more than 30 autonomous vehicle partnerships over the past two years, positioning itself as the dominant platform layer in the emerging robotaxi economy. A comprehensive tracker published by TechCrunch on August 1 catalogues…

NXP in talks to acquire AI chip designer Ambarella

NXP Semiconductors is in discussions to acquire Ambarella, a designer of AI-powered chips used in self-driving cars and security cameras, in a deal that would further consolidate the semiconductor industry around autonomous vehicle technology, according to the Financial Times.

France opposes EU approval of Tesla’s FSD software

France has publicly opposed the European Union-wide approval of Tesla's Full Self-Driving software, marking the first formal rejection by an EU government of a Dutch-led effort to clear the technology for use across the bloc.

Tesla’s FSD subscriptions hit 1.48M after record quarter

Tesla disclosed in its Q2 2026 earnings report that active Full Self-Driving subscriptions reached 1.48 million globally, a 56% increase from 950,000 a year earlier and the largest single-quarter net gain in the program's history. The company added roughly 200,000…

Morgan Stanley projects $1 trillion robotaxi market by 2040

The global robotaxi sector is on track to become a $1 trillion market by 2040, according to a research note published Friday by Morgan Stanley, which identified Chinese autonomous driving firms as regional front-runners poised to benefit from rapidly declining…

Waymo registers entities in Spain, France, Germany

Alphabet's autonomous driving unit Waymo has registered new corporate entities in Spain and France, adding to a rapid succession of European legal filings that suggest the robotaxi operator is laying groundwork for a broad continental presence.

Volkswagen to end Bosch self-driving partnership after €1.5B investment

Volkswagen plans to terminate its automated driving partnership with Bosch, ending a collaboration that absorbed roughly €1.5 billion without delivering competitive technology, according to a report by Germany's Bild newspaper on Sunday.

UN adopts first global rules for fully autonomous vehicles

The United Nations adopted the first global regulatory framework for fully autonomous driving systems on Wednesday, establishing uniform international safety requirements that could pave the way for the large-scale deployment of self-driving cars on public roads.

Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber team up on global robotaxi plan

Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding on June 17, 2026, to jointly develop and deploy Level 4 driverless robotaxi services across Europe, North America, and other regions.

Tesla shared misleading FSD safety data with EU regulators, Reuters finds

Tesla has submitted self-reported safety statistics to European regulators that independent traffic safety researchers describe as misleading, according to a Reuters investigation published on Sunday, raising new questions about the company's campaign to win continent-wide approval for its Full Self-Driving…

Cheap plastic heads trick Tesla’s Autopilot cameras in China

Just weeks after Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving system in China, a cottage industry of cheap gadgets designed to defeat the car's driver-monitoring cameras has emerged on Chinese e-commerce platforms. For as little as $10, drivers can purchase plastic figurines…