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Original Source: http://wapo.st/2lhWwrj By Christian Davenport and Joel Achenbach February 27 at 6:15 PM SpaceX said Monday it plans to fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon by late 2018 as part of a lunar journey that would last about a week and travel deeper into space than any human has ventured before.Read more

Folks’ imagination is boundless… but the Orem, UT, Police Department deserves the prize for the greatest sense of humor! See their FB post: http://bit.ly/2kxVbRE

Original Source: http://read.bi/2fJ1v4A Benjamin Zhang Nov. 23, 2016, 12:23 PM A hybrid UPS truck outside the New York Stock Exchange.AP Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Americans are expected to ship more than 1 billion packages. This means it’s peak season for the shipping giants UPS and FedEx. Both companies take extraordinary measures each year to make sureRead more

Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/2c8l4PK Posted 7 hours ago by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) Parrot, the French company that is probably best known for its AR.Drone and Bebop drones, today announced the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for helping drones and robots navigate indoors, avoid obstacles and map its surroundings. The S.L.A.M.dunk (I know I’ll never tire of typingRead more

Original Source: http://for.tn/2bTHcxQ by Claire Zillman @clairezillman AUGUST 25, 2016, 8:53 AM EDT “This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea.” Some of the world’s biggest companies—Amazon, Google—are itching to make commercial deliveries by drone, but a pizza restaurant may beat them to it. On Thursday, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises—an international franchiser of the Domino’s Pizza brand—conducted a demonstration ofRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2bcQRnz                   …at the DFJ steps for an autonomous test drive. Congrats to Anthony, Lior and the Otto team on their acquisition by Uber to run their autonomous drive efforts. It is bittersweet for me, as I have been talking with them for over five yearsRead more

Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/2b52NaG Posted Aug 17, 2016 by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)   Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make autonomous flying taxis a real thing for dense urban areas where traffic congestion isRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/2aZXPMA Ford to Make Autonomous Cars for Ride-Hailing, Ride-Sharing by 2021 By Nick Bunkley. Published on August 16, 2016. Ford fully autonomous Fusion Hybrid research vehicle on streets of Dearborn, MI. Credit: The Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Co. today said it plans to introduce an autonomous vehicle by 2021 for use in aRead more

This year’s edition of AUVSI in San Francisco gathered a large crowd comprised of industry experts, OEMs, automobile suppliers, startup companies, government officials, regulators, lawyers, insurance professionals, academics and researchers.   Transportation Secretary Anthony R. Foxx addressing the conference during the opening session.                       Phil Lebeau fromRead more

Original Source: http://bloom.bg/1sZ7Xsq The secretive startup is reportedly building an Uber-like service with driverless vehicles. A funding round could value Zoox at more than $1 billion. Ellen Huet May 27, 2016 — 1:11 PM PDT Updated on May 27, 2016 — 2:04 PM PDT Zoox Inc., a secretive autonomous-driving startup in Silicon Valley, is seeking to raise as muchRead more