- Take a virtual reality ride in a self-driving car, from the comfort of your own home. Courtesy of Project Endeavour, a UK non-profit dedicated to supporting emerging technology in the UK.
- Scout lives! Amazon is opening up an R&D Center in Finland, specifically focused on Scout. By the way, Yandex is partnering with Grubhub for campus food delivery, using similar robots. Yandex comes to the US, Amazong goes to northeastern Europe. Coincidence?
- Teleoperation comes for forklifts. The company is called Phantom Auto (old Udacity friends and students, by the way), but it makes a ton of sense that this would roll out faster for forklifts than for automobiles. Also, Third Wave Automation raises $40M to automate forklifts.
- “ADAS Sensors Create a Cleaning Nightmare.” Features an awesome video clip of a lidar with wipers and wiper fluid.
- Estonian startup Milrem won a European Space Agency contract to develop autonomous rovers. Makes sense that autonomy might be better than remote operation for a rover on another planet.
David Silver 