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Solihull and SCALE debuts full route to Birmingham Business Park

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:28:43 +0000

Solihull Council and the SCALE consortium have announced that the latest phase of the Solihull & Coventry Automated Links Evolution (SCALE) project will go live this week [Thursday 5 February]. [...]

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NVIDIA introduces open-source AI models to facilitate autonomous vehicle development

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:16:51 +0000

NVIDIA has unveiled the NVIDIA Alpamayo family of open AI models, simulation tools and datasets designed to accelerate the next era of safe, reasoning‑based autonomous vehicle (AV) development. Traditional AV [...]

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Robotics & Automation in review 2025: the stories, signals and shifts that shaped the year

John Thornton — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:16:59 +0000

If 2024 was the year robotics and automation proved it could scale, 2025 was the year the conversation moved on to how it scales: skills, integration, capital, regulation and measurable [...]

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Cyngn expands DriveMod Tugger deployment with G&J Pepsi

John Thornton — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:03:44 +0000

Cyngn has secured an additional autonomous vehicle order from G&J Pepsi, one of the largest independent Pepsi bottlers in the USA, as it looks to scale deployments of its DriveMod [...]

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WeRide, Uber and RTA launch Dubai Robotaxis

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:11:24 +0000

Autonomous driving technology company WeRide and Uber in partnership with Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), today announced the official launch of Robotaxi passenger rides in Dubai on the Uber [...]

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WeRide and Uber launch driverless Robotaxis in Abu Dhabi

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:34:42 +0000

WeRide and Uber Technologies, Inc. has announced the launch of Level 4 fully driverless Robotaxi commercial operations in Abu Dhabi. The launch was supported by the world’s first city-level fully [...]

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AI autopickers operate after dark

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:53:21 +0000

AI-powered robotic automation for warehouses provider Brightpick has announced that its Autopicker robots now enable lights-out overnight fulfillment. Autopicker robots use AI-powered decision-making and a mobile robotic arm to autonomously pick [...]

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Locus marks expansion after Ingka acquisition

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:39:57 +0000

Logistics technology company Locus expanded to 547 stores globally after its acquisition by Ingka Group, an IKEA retailer. Locus continues to operate independently while providing delivery services for IKEA via [...]

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Hyundai and NVIDIA accelerate robotics partnership

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:23:46 +0000

Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA have announced they are deepening their collaboration to accelerate innovation in autonomous vehicles (AVs), smart factories and robotics. The partnership will seek to accomplish this [...]

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DHL partners with HappyRobot to accelerate warehouse AI

Reuben Henry-Fellows — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:25:42 +0000

DHL Group has announced a new partnership between its contract logistics division, DHL Supply Chain, and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup HappyRobot. DHL Supply Chain has already utilised HappyRobot’s AI [...]

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