Autonomous vehicles

The real value of autonomous drones isn’t flight, it’s their presence - opinion

Autonomous drones are becoming infrastructure that allow for constant, low‑cost security and inspection. The real shift isn’t the aircraft anymore, it’s the business model.

|ByITAMAR KOHALI, IN COOPERATION WITH PROPELLER DRONES
Propeller Drones operates as a dual-use drone services provider, supporting both commercial and defense customers
An Elbit Systems illustration of robotic and autonomous systems in use in the field.

Swarming the battlefield: Elbit-FUSE reveals mass drone and robot armies as IDF plans new AI branch

As an ethical matter, Elbit officials said that humans will and must remain in the loop to sign off on targeting decisions and to reduce collateral harm to civilians.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Anduril and Archer Aviation's Thunder autonomous VTOL aircraft platform

Archer, Anduril unveil autonomous aircraft platform for defense, commercial markets

Thunder is aimed at 'anyone who operates Apache, anyone who operates armed reconnaissance helicopters'

|ByREUTERS
Airwayz and Tenna System collaborate to secure the skies

Airwayz, Tenna fuse spectrum intelligence into OVERWATCH airspace‑control platform

Platform upgrade by Tenna and Airwayz gives operators a clearer RF map for safer autonomous flights in busy contested flights

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM

Israeli startup TriEye partners with Porsche to create autonomous tech

The SWIR sensing technology developed by TriEye was manufactured to enhance visibility in unfavorable weather and night-time conditions.

MAY 20, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Porsche introduces its new Taycan 4S at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 20, 2019

Study: Driverless cars must be designed around user personality to succeed

The researchers found that openness to experience impacted both information sharing and need for control preferences.

MARCH 16, 2020ByEYTAN HALON
Yandex's autonomous car on a test drive in Tel Aviv, June 12, 2019

The semi-automation revolution

The fascinating story of a bricklaying robot

JANUARY 16, 2020ByMARGARET QUAMME
A ROBOT GIVES a demonstration at a tech conference in Las Vegas on January 8. The book explores the leaps forward and backward in robot technolog

Intel demos autonomous car equipped only with cameras in Jerusalem

Mobileye, Intel's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, showed the car navigating through four-way intersections with no traffic lights, and changing lanes to weave into traffic.

JANUARY 7, 2020ByREUTERS
A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem

The road ahead for self-driving cars

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), driverless cars, robo-cars or robotic cars, appear to be the upcoming thing.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019ByJASON BLACKSHAW