Why it matters: The car drove itself, y'all. (Who's) Driving the news: Last summer, Atlanta became the fifth city in the U.S.

A woman gave birth in a driverless Waymo on the way to the hospital in San Francisco. The company says this isn't the first ...

Waymo’s reputation took another hit after a TikToker posted footage of three self-driving vehicles stuck in a kind of ...

Waymo's self-driving taxis have been in the spotlight for both negative and positive reasons. This week, the automated ...

These driverless taxis are now on the roads in the city for manual testing, meaning a driver is operating the vehicle so it ...

I've only ever owned one robot vacuum in my life and it was a Roomba. I absolutely loved the thing right up until it came time for me to empty it, which was surprisingly frequently. But then once we ...

With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons. Tech Fix With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox ...

As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. So, ...

It's now actually not that unusual to see quadruped robots that have powered wheels for feet, allowing them to either walk or roll as the situation dictates. The modular D1 is different, though, in ...

In October 2025, a Facebook post (archived) about an unusual finding spread across the platform. According to the post, scientists discovered robotic micro spiders from the comet 3I/ATLAS in ...

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