Small unmanned robots flying around delivering your e-commerce orders may still sound like stuff from a futuristic world from the movies, but Chinese authorities have picked up the gauntlet to try and make this dream real! Last week, China’s CAAC Northwest Regional Administration issued a business license for civil unmanned aerial vehicles to Xi’an-based unit …
Earlier this year Daimler and HERE Technologies joined hands to make HERE HD Live Map as a part of Daimler’s autonomous driving technology. “The map of the future is one that’s self-healing—constantly updating to mirror what is happening across the road network” said Ralf Herrtwich, SVP Automotive at HERE Technologies. A self-healing live HD map …
In an interview given to Roadshow (by Cnet), Nils Wollny, Audi’s head of digital business strategy and customer experienced revealed that the company is collaborating with Disney since over 18 months to form ‘a new type of media’ for self driving cars as well as for more traditional vehicles. He also emphasized that there is …
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Qualcomm launched a new robotics platform, the RB3 at the mobile world congress 2019, in Barcelona. The platform is its first offering targeted at robotics developers. The company claims that the RB3 system consists of optimized hardware and software tools that can assist robot developers and system manufacturers to develop new robots in the ever …
It is clear that autonomous driving is now the most important idea for driving investment and research activity in the automotive sector. Most automotive OEMs and their tier-1 suppliers are scrambling to announce their research efforts in this direction to make sure that they are not left out from the on-going technological shift. Most car …
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LG U+ and Hanyang University have recently (in mid-March 2019) tested an autonomous driving car with its 5G mobile communication commercial network. This was the first time for Seoul to test a 5G commercial network based autonomous vehicle. This is not completely surprising as South Korean telecom companies have been at the forefront of advancing …
Automotive lighting has been a major component of automotive safety for a long time. Statistics suggest that a majority of accidents are caused in the night which makes good lighting an important feature. While the halogen front lamps have remained the mainstay of lighting for long, the emergence of LEDs has helped transform the automotive …
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Blockchain technology is the backbone of cryptocurrencies. The tokenization that turns blockchain into a valuable commodity isn’t a necessary step in the process. Even without this step, blockchain is a way to securely and efficiently record and transfer data. As a result, it’s turning up in a lot of places other than cryptocurrencies. One of …
Remittances and other cross-border financial payments are a large and technically challenging aspect of global finance. Because of the need for permissions and rules for use in cross-border payments, private blockchains are receiving increased attention in this space. Current Challenges In conventional cross-border payments, the transaction is handled jointly by the Society for Worldwide Interbank …
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With more and more focus being shifted on sustainable energy sources, investment in electric vehicles is at all-time highs. Of course, most of these vehicles are still conventionally manufactured, but OEMs have slowly started to employ the use of additive manufacturing technology in a bid to cut both costs and lead times. Tesla goes additive …
