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STMicroelectronics releases first automotive IMU with embedded machine learning

“STMicroelectronics’ ASM330LHHX inertial measurement unit (IMU) moves smart driving another step closer to high levels of automation with its machine-learning (ML) core. The ML core enables fast real-time response and sophisticated functions with low system power demand. Leveraging ST’s …

TI drives isolation technology forward with new solid-state relays that provide industry-leading reliability

“New portfolio can help make EVs safer while reducing solution size up to 90% and cost by as much as 50% Building on more than two decades of experience developing new isolation manufacturing technologies and integrated circuits (ICs) for high-voltage …

FedEx Plans to Test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery with Elroy Air

“FedEx and Elroy Air work to launch test flights aimed at middle-mile delivery in 2023. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy …

Van, Go: Pony.ai Unveils Next-Gen Robotaxi Fleet Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin

“High-performance, energy-efficient AI compute platform to be integrated into fleet of Toyota Sienna level 4 autonomous vehicles. Robotaxis are on their way to delivering safer transportation, driving across various landscapes and through starry nights. This week, Silicon Valley-based self-driving startup …

ZEVA Successfully Completes Historic First Test Flight

“The zero-emissions electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft reaches critical milestone, flying untethered in its first series of taxiing tests ZEVA, a pioneer in zero-emission electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft transportation, successfully achieved its first untethered, powered …

TI advances driver assistance technology to more accurately monitor blind spots and efficiently navigate turns and corners to safely avoid collisions

“In an effort to move autonomous driving and vehicle safety forward, Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced an expansion of its automotive offerings that can help automakers improve how advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) sense objects. TI’s new …

VISION-S Exhibiting at CES 2022, Entering a New Phase

“At CES 2020, Sony Group Corporation (“Sony”) announced “VISION-S,” an initiative aimed at contributing to the evolution of mobility, and exhibited a prototype vehicle at its booth. To demonstrate this concept in the real world, Sony started public road …

Mach 30 wind tunnel to ‘put China decades’ ahead in hypersonic race

“A Chinese physicist has said that a new wind tunnel in Beijing to be unveiled “soon” will put China decades ahead of the rest of the world in hypersonic technology. Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Han Guilai told an online …

Toshiba’s Transparent Cu2O Tandem Solar Top Cell Achieves 8.4% Efficiency

“A boost to development of no-plug charging EVs and transition to renewable energy. Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that it has successfully raised the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of its transparent Cu2O solar cell to 8.4%, the world …

Hyundai Motor Group Reveal Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED)

“Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) today revealed the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), an all-new and pioneering small mobility platform using cutting-edge robotics technologies. The MobED has an innovative design arrangement. It’s flat, rectangular body rides on four large wheels …