Chinese tech giant Baidu’s robotaxi service, Apollo Go, has launched in Beijing following successful trials in other cities.
Apollo Go previously launched in the cities of Changsha and Cangzhou back in August. The expansion to Beijing marks the first driverless car services...
Japan has opened a consultation with the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in a bid to establish standards for human-assisting robots.
Part of the reason for Japan's huge investments into robotics is the country's ageing population. Robots designed to help the elderly are...
California-based Atmosic Technologies and Japanese components producer SMK Electronics have announced a strategic partnership to attempt to enable 'forever battery life'.
The initiative will integrate Atmosic's M3 system-on-chip (SoC) into a range of connected devices from...
Edge computing, seen by many industry pundits and analysts as a key piece of the jigsaw in enabling technological convergence, is at a tipping point today. According to a report from Frost & Sullivan, by 2022 90% of industrial enterprises will be utilising edge computing.
Many...
Across the globe, governments have fast tracked the use of mobile and IoT technologies in the fight against Coronavirus. At the same time, leading cities are supporting shared bike schemes and dedicated cycle routes. They are also evaluating the viability of public transport systems where...
Taiwanese semiconductor provider MediaTek has claimed an industry first with a public test of an NB-IoT device to an Inmarsat satellite 35,000 kilometres above the equator.
A bi-directional link was established from MediaTel's satellite-enabled standard NB-IoT device to a commercial...
The group behind the Bluetooth standard wants to add COVID-19 exposure detection to wearable devices.
In an announcement today, the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) said that it is working with over 130 member companies to add the potentially lifesaving feature to...
Human rights group Liberty has won the first international case banning the use of facial recognition technology for policing.
In a judgment today, the Court of Appeal ruled that South Wales Police’s use of facial recognition technology breaches privacy rights, data protection laws,...
Ride-hailing giant Uber is accelerating its operations in the UK with the acquisition of British software firm Autocab.
Uber's story in the UK so far has been a mixed one. Britain was among the first countries which Uber expanded to outside of the US, but it's not been smooth...
Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing autonomous car secrets.
Levandowski was employed by Google’s self-driving car division Waymo when he transferred over 14,000 secret files to his laptop before leaving the...
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