Autonomous Vehicles
Tesla has begun testing its specialized 'Cybercab' robotaxi in Austin, featuring a design that completely removes the steering wheel and pedals. The move coincides with potential federal regulatory shifts that could eliminate manual control requirements for autonomous vehicles.
ADAS
Mobileye is expanding its footprint in the U.S. with its own robotaxi launch, positioning itself as both a hardware/software supplier and a direct operator in the AV market.
SDV
Waymo has issued a recall for nearly 4,000 robotaxis following incidents where vehicles entered active highway construction zones, highlighting the ongoing challenges of software navigation in dynamic environments.
Autonomous Vehicles
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed removing the requirement for physical brake pedals in vehicles designed exclusively for autonomous driving, a massive win for Tesla’s Cybercab.
Physical AI
Anthropic’s Claude models are now generally available on NVIDIA’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs via Microsoft Azure, enabling high-speed LLM reasoning for enterprise-scale physical operations.
Robotics
Gecko Robotics has secured a massive five-year contract with the U.S. Navy to deploy climbing robots for hull inspection and predictive maintenance, marking a new era for maritime robotics.
ADAS
The Department of Transportation is considering a landmark shift in safety regulations by proposing the elimination of the brake-pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles.
SDV
Stark Future is pushing the boundaries of Software-Defined Vehicles with a new performance update for its Varg electric dirt bike, proving that OTA updates are as vital for motorcycles as they are for cars.
Autonomous Vehicles
Mobileye is expanding its footprint by launching its own robotaxi service in the U.S., a move that positions the company as both a technology supplier and a direct competitor to its hardware partners.
Physical AI
Decart has unveiled Oasis 3, a real-time world model capable of simulating photorealistic driving environments. This breakthrough allows developers to test autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual worlds that react dynamically to AI inputs.
ADAS
The software-defined vehicle doesn’t die in the lab. It dies in the spreadsheet — the moment a CFO turns the sensing-and-compute stack into an upsell. We keep debating the software-defined vehicle as a software problem. Zonal architecture. A unified vehicle OS. Secure OTA. Containerised middleware. All
Semiconductors
The semiconductor industry is facing critical I/O design challenges as AI data centers and HPC clusters grow. Engineers are grappling with bandwidth chokepoints that threaten to stall the progress of large-scale AI training.