Autonomous Safety News
Latest Autonomous Safety news and analysis — 32 articles tagged Autonomous Safety on The Robotics Media.
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions Passes 3 Million Tonnes Hauled Driverless — — VAS tripled its haulage milestone in 15 months as nine driverless articulated trucks moved 3 Mt of limestone and mining rock at Bronnoy Kalk and Bolid...
- Autonomous Racecars Overtake Each Other At Laguna Seca For The First Time — — Unimore Racing wins the Indy Autonomous Challenge at Laguna Seca as autonomous cars execute their first-ever overtakes on a road course.
- Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 Launches Sept 24 With ADS 5, Books 20K Orders In A Day — — The Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 launches September 24 from 299,800 yuan, ships Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 with four LiDAR units standard, and has already bo...
- Nio 3rd-Gen ES8 Hits 150,000 Deliveries In One Year, Sweeps China’s Premium SUV Chart — — Nio’s third-gen ES8 reached 150,000 cumulative deliveries on September 20, 2026, exactly one year after launch, locking in a lead in China’s 400,000-y...
- Volkswagen Launches ID.AURA T6, Its First LiDAR-Equipped EV, In China From 9,240 — — Volkswagen has launched the ID.AURA T6 in China from 129,900 yuan (~9,240), its first production EV with a 192-channel LiDAR wired to a Horizon Roboti...
- Autonomous Solutions Puts 255,000 Acres Of Florida Sugarcane On Autopilot With John Deere — — Utah-based Autonomous Solutions has stood up what it calls the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in the history of American sugarcane farming with U.S....
- NHTSA Opens Audit Query Into Tesla Cybercab Hours After Austin Rollout — — The NHTSA opened Audit Query AQ26002 into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification just hours after the wheel-and-pedal-free robotaxi hit Austin streets, e...
- Guident Extends 36-Month WatchBot AI Safety Deal With Coastal Waste — — Guident extended a multi-year AI safety agreement with Coastal Waste & Recycling, deploying WatchBot autonomous inspection robots and AI analytics acr...
- FCC Labels Drone Light Shows Military-Grade As Comments Close Sept. 2 — — FCC Public Notice DA 26-758 puts multi-drone light shows inside a new military-grade swarm category, threatening the Korean-built UVify IFO fleets tha...
- Oregon Warns: One Drone Over A Wildfire Grounds Every Firefighting Aircraft — — State agencies say drones have delayed aerial operations at the Grasshopper Fire and warn violators face up to $75,000 in fines and 12 months in feder...
- Amazon Prime Air Drone Drops Package Into Texas Pool, Fueling MK30 Design Backlash — — A viral video of an Amazon MK30 drone letting a Texas customer's package fall into her swimming pool has revived design questions about Prime Air's ho...
- Waymo Cleared to Expand Robotaxis Across 18 California Counties — — California's CPUC has approved Waymo to run driverless robotaxis in 18 counties, opening Sacramento and San Diego and clearing the entire Bay Area and...
- PlusAI Nudges Autonomous Trucks Toward 2027 Launch With 93.4% Safety Case — — PlusAI's H1 2026 report shows SuperDrive at 93.4% safety-case readiness, 99.8% autonomous miles, and 85.2% remote-assist-free trips as it targets 2027...
- Zoox Locks Final Production Robotaxi Design, Aims 100 Vehicles A Week — — Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled the final production design of its purpose-built robotaxi and will scale Hayward output to 100 vehicles per week as se...
- Ford Fathom Electric Truck Undercuts $30K, Ships In Fall 2027 With BlueCruise — — Ford's second EV truck — the first vehicle on its cost-cutting Universal EV Platform — will start at $28,350, ship in fall 2027 and arrive BlueCruise-...
- NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super Reasoning Model For Robotaxi Commercial Use — — NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter open reasoning model for autonomous driving, under a permissive commercial license, ranking #1 on Li...
- Innoviz LiDAR Wins First Defense Customer Order for Counter-Drone Duty — — Israeli LiDAR maker Innoviz Technologies said on July 30, 2026 it landed its first multimillion-dollar defense order, worth roughly $3.5 million for s...
- Skydio Crosses 1,000 Dock Deployments And 4 Million Flights One Year After Launch — — One year after shipping the first production Skydio Dock, the San Mateo drone maker has crossed 1,070 deployed docks across public safety, utilities a...
- Tesla Confirms Miami Robotaxi Fleet Is Running Fully Unsupervised — — Ashok Elluswamy said Tesla's Miami Robotaxi fleet operates on the same Unsupervised basis as Austin, making Florida the first state outside Texas wher...
- Waymo Robotaxi Rats Out Teen Joyriders To San Mateo Police — — A Waymo robotaxi remotely disabled itself and called San Mateo police after in-cabin cameras caught two 15-year-olds drinking and firing Orbeez toy gu...