Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous vehicle technology thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning. Now, Helm.ai, the startup he co-founded in 2016 with Tudor Achim, is coming out of stealth with an announcement that it has raised $13 million in a… Read More »
There has never been a better time to learn how AI will transform the way people, goods and services move. During GTC Digital, anyone can experience the latest developments in AI technology for free, from the comfort of their own home. Hundreds of expert talks and training sessions covering autonomous vehicles, robotics, healthcare, finance and… Read More »
LILEE Systems, the leading provider of self-driving technologies and system integrations, announced its partnership with the Tainan City Government to launch the city’s first revenue-generating self-driving bus program. LILEE’s self-driving bus will begin to serve two business areas of the fifth largest city in Taiwan later this year, a milestone in the city’s two-year smart… Read More »
Image Courtesy: SmartCitiesWorld We live in a world where technology evolves at an exponential pace. As consumers and businesses, we have two choices: be silent observers of these changes or use them for our benefit. For the mobility industry, this change is called the connected car. But what value can the connected car bring to… Read More »
ADASKY, a leading developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art thermal sensing technology for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles (AV) and smart city applications, won a strategic contract to supply its thermal cameras for an autonomous vehicle. ADASKY’s Viper thermal camera is a leading high-resolution, thermal perception system with the capability to fill the perception… Read More »
One page out of the printable coloring book by Mapbox. For all parents who are forced to work and stay at home with their (extended) families during the COVID-19 epidemic, Mapbox created a printable map coloring book for kids at home. Many of us are working from home right now. With schools closed, Mapbox compiled… Read More »
Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of Continental together with Wachstumsfonds Bayern, which is managed by Bayern Kapital, with participation of the existing investors Fluxunit – OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, TEV (Tengelmann Ventures) and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Blickfeld develops and produces… Read More »
Germany: Munich-based LiDAR start-up Blickfeld has completed its Series A financing round. The new financing was led by the venture capital unit of Continental together with Wachstumsfonds Bayern, which is managed by Bayern Kapital, with participation of the existing investors Fluxunit – OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, TEV (Tengelmann Ventures) and Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners. Blickfeld… Read More »
European Space Imaging collected imagery yesterday afternoon (March 19 2020) of the COVID-19 drive-through testing facilities currently erected at Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany. The imagery was captured with WorldView-3 at True 30 cm in full colour. It shows the six drive-through testing tents and over 60 cars waiting in line for testing. Testing at this facility… Read More »
The web-based platform providesa toolkit as well as a working and research space for the spatiotemporal analysisand geo-visualization of Coronavirus-related world data The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has left authorities around the world struggling to find a vaccine or ways to contain the virus. While a set of health experts are banking on warmer weather… Read More »