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Nevada Regulators Clear Path For 8,000 Tesla, Uber And Waymo Robotaxis In Clark County — Sep 1, 2026 — The Nevada Transportation Authority approved three commercial permits covering Clark County, opening the door to as many as 8,000 driverless vehicles...Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million EVs In China Over Hidden Door Handles — Aug 24, 2026 — Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels and push software updates to help occupants find hidden manual door releases, in China's...FCC Adds Chinese Humanoid And Quadruped Robots To Covered List — Aug 24, 2026 — The Federal Communications Commission has moved to block new equipment authorizations for foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, citing supply-ch...Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button as AI Reshapes Search — Aug 23, 2026 — Google is rolling out an embeddable Preferred Sources button that lets publishers give readers a one-tap way to boost the visibility of their reportin...Nevada Caps Tesla's Vegas Robotaxi Fleet at 10 — It Asked for 5,000 — Aug 19, 2026 — The Nevada Transportation Authority has granted Tesla an Autonomous Vehicle Network Company permit to run driverless cars in Las Vegas — but capped th...Kodiak AI Wins California Permit to Test Autonomous Heavy Trucks — Aug 19, 2026 — Nasdaq-listed Kodiak AI has been granted a permit under California's newly expanded Autonomous Vehicle Tester program, becoming one of the first heavy...Zoox Wins First-Ever NHTSA Commercial Exemption For Purpose-Built Robotaxi — Jul 30, 2026 — The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle developer becomes the first company allowed to charge riders in a car with no steering wheel or pedals, with an in...GUARD Act: Bipartisan Bill Targets Chinese Humanoid and Quadruped Robot Imports — Jul 25, 2026 — House Select Committee chair John Moolenaar, Jay Obernolte and Jennifer McClellan have introduced the bipartisan GUARD Act, which would force national...Zoox Recalls 105 Robotaxis After Vehicle Enters Emergency Smoke Scene — Jul 17, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox will recall all 105 of its autonomous robotaxis with a software update after a driverless vehicle entered a Las Vegas fire scene obs...California's Tough New AV Rules Kick In: Tickets, Trucks and Geofences — Jul 3, 2026 — 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 — Jun 29, 2026 — The Trump administration's DOT wants to remove the brake-pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles, clearing a regulatory hurdle for purpose-bui...UN Adopts First Global Rules for Fully Autonomous Vehicles — Jun 28, 2026 — The UN's vehicle standards forum has approved the first-ever global regulations for fully autonomous driving systems, with backing from the US, EU, Ch...CISA Tells Federal Agencies To Patch Smarter With New BOD 26-04 — Jun 11, 2026 — CISA's new Binding Operational Directive 26-04 replaces CVSS-only patching across U.S. civilian agencies with a risk-based framework anchored on explo...Trump AI Executive Order Seeks 30-Day Pre-Release Model Reviews — Jun 3, 2026 — Signed June 2, 2026, the order asks Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others to voluntarily submit frontier models for up to 30 days of federal cyber-capa...Tesla Self-Certifies Cybercab at Level 4 Under New Texas SB 2807 Robotaxi Law — Jun 1, 2026 — Texas's new commercial autonomous-vehicle law became enforceable on May 28, 2026, and Tesla self-certified its Cybercab and Model Y robotaxi software...China Assigns Digital IDs to 28,000 Humanoid Robots — May 29, 2026 — Beijing has launched a national lifecycle tracking platform that issues 29-digit digital IDs to every humanoid robot built in China. More than 28,000...China Launches First Humanoid Robot Lifecycle Platform — May 25, 2026 — China has launched its first full lifecycle management platform for humanoid robots in Beijing, giving each machine a unique digital identity from fac...Delivery Robots Normalize in Public Spaces as Cities Set New Regulations — Apr 9, 2026 — Autonomous delivery robots are seamlessly integrating into urban environments as cities develop regulatory frameworks for robotic operations.