The team at the GE Healthcare Milwaukee repair facility is always looking for ways to improve efficiencies and to automate more processes — like moving materials through the 280,000 square foot building.
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DOT Recommends V2V Communications in Cars, Light Trucks
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require automakers to install vehicle to…
Monitoring, Mapping, Measuring: How Drones Are Changing The Mining Industry
Unmanned aerial systems can be used for a variety of mining tasks, including measuring the volume of stockpiles, monitoring blasts and mapping construction.
Smart Cities to Spur Autonomous Vehicle Growth
In the next five years, experts say that autonomous vehicles will be entrenched in smart cities’ infrastructure to include mass…
Data Driving Intel’s $250 Million Investment in Autonomous Vehicles
Intel’s announcement last week that it was investing $250 million into autonomous vehicle testing, along with other recent corporate acquisitions,…
NovAtel and Stanford Sign Autonomous Vehicle Study Agreement
NovAtel has signed a contract with Stanford University for a study to determine how GNSS technology can deliver a positioning…
Flying the Rails
For hundreds of years, the world’s rail industry has efficiently transported goods and people from point to point. Safety is…
Combination of Sensors Needed for Autonomous Vehicle Development
One of the main concerns for driverless system developers is to decide what systems work best, either standalone, or in conjunction with other devices, to achieve full autonomous driving capability.
Autonomous Industry Hiring Amid Big Announcements
With Tesla’s announcement last week that all of its cars will have self-driving technology, at least one published report indicates…
Clearpath Robotics Partners with ARGO XTR to Launch Warthog UGV, an Amphibious Robot
Clearpath Robotics recently partnered with Xtreme Terrain Robots (ARGO XTR) to launch the Warthog, a large, amphibious all-terrain mobile robot…
DOT Forms Autonomous Vehicle Advisory Committee
The U.S. Transportation Department (DoT) announced last week that it is creating an Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT)…
Clearpath Robotics Raises $30 Million
Clearpath Robotics recently raised $30 million to grow its industrial division, OTTO Motors. The investment will be used to expand the indoor self-driving vehicle market.
DOT Issues Autonomous Vehicle Policy
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) released its Federal Automated Vehicle Policy Tuesday that details safety and regulatory requirements for self-driving technology testing and implementation.
What’s Important about Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Announcements?
In the past two weeks, ride-sharing giant Uber made several announcements to keep the company at the forefront of autonomous…
State Regulations Hampering Automated Truck Platooning, Report Says
One potentially huge, and early, autonomous vehicle market lies within the trucking industry, specifically the employment of tractor-trailer platooning. However,…
Toyota Research Institute Partners with the University of Michigan
The institute recently committed to investing $22 million toward research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the university.
