Robotics Q&A with Meta’s Dhruv Batra
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew …
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Best robot vacuum Cyber Monday deals: Roomba, Shark, and more
You shouldn’t miss Cyber Monday deals if you’re planning to buy household items that you’ve been holding out on because they’re beyond your budget. If you bought flashy items like …
Best robot vacuum Black Friday deals: Save on Roomba, Shark, more
Digital Trends With all the Black Friday deals going on at the moment, this is the perfect time to buy yourself a home improvement. We all hate having to vacuum …
Get Hit By A Self-Driving Car For Science
If you live in a municipality that allows driverless car testing, you may already be accustomed to taking your life in your hands every time you have to Frogger your …
Kyle Vogt, CEO of Robotaxi Developer Cruise, Resigns As Questions Linger Over Grisly Crash
Kyle Vogt, the CEO of self-driving car developer Cruise who founded the company before its acquisition by General Motors in 2016, resigned this evening. His announcement comes amid upheaval at …
GM’s Cruise Rethinks Its Robotaxi Strategy After Admitting a Software Fault in Gruesome Crash
In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion …
Cruise Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled To Detect Children But Still Kept Them On The Road
Photo: Cruise Things aren’t going so well for General Motors’ autonomous Cruise division right now. After a human driver hit a pedestrian, a robotaxi pinned her to the ground, and …
Cruise Played Fast And Loose With Regulations And Now That’s Coming Back To Bite It
Cruise has ceased driverless car operations nationwide. After a very public incident involving a pedestrian, San Francisco officials and California state regulators banned the company from operations in the city, …
You’ll be shocked how cheap this Roomba is right now
iRobot One of the best robot vacuum deals comes courtesy of Amazon today. You can currently buy the iRobot Roomba 694 Robot Vacuum for $159 saving you $116 off the …
AI This Week: Cruise’s Robotaxi Meltdown
Headlines This Week Academic researchers at the University of Chicago are helping artists fight back against AI algorithms that would ingest and monetize their works. Researchers have developed a program …