Autonomous Safety News
Latest Autonomous Safety news and analysis — 25 articles tagged Autonomous Safety on The Robotics Media.
- 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...
- Autoliv and XPENG Sign Global Safer-Mobility Framework Deal — — The July 7 framework agreement between airbag giant Autoliv and Chinese physical-AI carmaker XPENG will span technology, digitalization, supply chain...
- Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides In Miami, First Beyond Texas & California — — Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3, running fully unsupervised Model Ys across a 20-square-mile geofence in the first market outsid...
- California's Tough New AV Rules Kick In: Tickets, Trucks and Geofences — — California's sweeping autonomous vehicle regulations enter force, letting police cite driverless cars from July 1, opening the state to heavy-duty AV...
- US Proposes Dropping Brake-Pedal Rule for Driverless Cars — — The Trump administration's DOT wants to remove the brake-pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles, clearing a regulatory hurdle for purpose-bui...
- NIST's Safe Step AI reroutes building evacuees away from spreading fires — — NIST researchers unveiled Safe Step, an AI model that uses reinforcement learning and live sensor data to direct building occupants to the safest exit...
- Waymo Unveils Ojai Robotaxi, Built on Geely Zeekr Platform — — Waymo's new Ojai minivan, built with Geely's Zeekr unit, debuts the company's sixth-generation Driver and will offer free public rides in San Francisc...
- Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Shrinks to 20 as Waymo Pulls Further Ahead — — Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi fleet has shrunk to 20 active vehicles and its total ride-hailing fleet has dropped to 34, even as Waymo expands to abou...