Autonomous Vehicles

California's Marine Advanced Robotics has made considerable progress on its remarkable Wave-Adaptive Modular Vessel since we first saw these wild suspension-legged spider-boats 16 years ago on a list of urban legends.

The way we move from A to B in cities and beyond is changing. Electronics giant LG wants a slice of our autonomous electric transport future, and is working on a mobile home office or entertainment lounge called the Omnipod.

An autonomous race team from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) has set a new land speed record for driverless cars, recording a two-way average of 192.2 mph (309.3 km/h) over a flying kilometer on a space shuttle airstrip at the Kennedy Space Center.

Fusion Processing has announced that an autonomous public transport project will start on-road testing this week, en route to beginning a new 14-mile pilot service ferrying passengers across a long-span suspension bridge in Scotland later this year.

While AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) are invaluable for gathering oceanographic data, they also tend to be fairly large and very expensive. The Hydrus offers a much smaller, less costly alternative, which still packs a lot of punch.

Cars in Oxford and London have been driven on public roads via remote control, in a world-first demonstration of a "tele-operation" system, showing how operators can take over autonomous cars when they encounter strange situations they can't handle.

The US has today updated its motor safety rules with a self-driving future in mind, issuing a first-of-a-kind rule to account for vehicles that eschew the steering wheel and other controls for automated driving systems.

Looking to leverage its expertise in camera sensor technology for use in self-driving vehicles, Sony has begun taking small steps into the motoring world in recent years, and now it is turning to an established name to help it gain a proper foothold.

Backcountry ski hills may lack crowds, but they also lack lifts to take skiers back up the slope. The dolaGon Autonomous Ski Lift Vehicle was created with this problem in mind, as it follows skiers down the slope then takes them back to the top for another run.

Eugene-based electric mobility company Arcimoto has teamed up with Silicon Valley autonomous driving startup Faction Technology to transform its three-wheeled electric Fun Utility Vehicle into a "driverless" pod for last-mile deliveries.

There are many things we expect from automated vehicle technology, but that list does not include screeching drift mode. That's the benchmark Toyota Research Institute hit in a quest to develop autonomy that can extreme-maneuver out of danger.

A California startup co-founded by three former SpaceX engineers has emerged from stealth with a plan to build autonomous electric vehicles to haul freight by rail, and has raised a sizable pot of cash to move things forward.