Topic: Autonomous Trucks

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NextGen Supply Chain: Time to pay attention to autonomous vehicles

November 22, 2017 · Don't look for completely autonomous vehicles on your local roadways in the next few months unless you live in the Phoenix area. But do expect this unprecedented corporate R&D project to impact all of our lives over the next few years

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Self-Driving Technology for Commercial Trucking

November 19, 2017 · Embark is working to make the self-driving future a reality, and while most of the spectacle has been around passenger vehicles, Embark believes that commercial trucking, the backbone of the U.S. economy, stands to reap untold benefits by deploying autonomous trucks, particularly during the “long haul” stretches.

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Seegrid partners with Bell and Howell to expand service support for self-driving industrial vehicles

November 14, 2017 · Bell and Howell to service autonomous pallet trucks and tow tractors for Seegrid customers across North America.

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Why You Need to Think Twice About Flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Transportation

November 10, 2017 · The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility, but rather than embracing that vision, policymakers should consider why flying vehicles are not only unpractical but also unnecessary.

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Expectations and Future Last Mile Delivery Logistics

August 1, 2017 · While various futuristic delivery options are being developed and tested, they're not yet trending, but keep your eyes on them for the future, especially when parcels can be delivered by autonomous vehicles or drones, that will change the last mile delivery game considerably.

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IDTechEx research explores how mobile robots will transform materials handling

July 31, 2017 · From forklifts to mobile picking robots to automated last-mile delivery, new technologies will either perish or they will reshape the industry.

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Uber Fires Self-Driving Vehicle Engineer Anthony Levandowski amid Legal Battle with Google

May 30, 2017 · Uber has fired the head of its self-driving vehicle unit, Anthony Levandowski, amid the continuing fallout from the engineer's alleged theft of trade secrets from his former employer, Google.

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Is Amazon Creating Self-Driving Cars for Delivery?

April 24, 2017 · Over the past two years, Amazon has been seeking to take over more shipping duties from the likes of UPS and FedEx by leasing trucks, planes, and ships, and now the e-commerce giant could be eyeing driverless car technology as a way to get items to people's doors faster.

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Autonomous Trucking Overlooks Skilled Labor Need

April 6, 2017 · Analysts expect automated trucks to proliferate in the next five to ten years, leading to significant job losses in the process, but the problem is the numbers do not clearly back up the predictions.

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Fate of Uber and Otto’s Autonomous Vehicles

March 17, 2017 · Google's Waymo autonomous tech lawsuit against Uber and specifically against Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo employee who left the company to start autonomous truck driving firm Otto, which Uber purchased for nearly $700 million, looks really bad for Uber.

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What Intel’s $15.3 billion Acquisition of Mobileye Means in the Age of Driverless Vehicles

March 15, 2017 · The U.S. chip making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion, making it the biggest buy of an Israeli high-tech company ever, what does this mean for autonomous transportation?

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‘Last Mile’ Solution for Driverless Trucks

March 12, 2017 · Starsky Robotics wants to solve the primary logistical challenge for the trucking industry by taking drivers off the road and target long haul services, which is primarily highway driving with short trips from the exit to the final destination.

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The Never-Ending Truck Driver Shortage Story

March 8, 2017 · In 2015, American Trucking Associations estimated that for-hire trucking companies had nearly 50,000 fewer drivers than they needed, the shortage was less severe in 2016, but the trade group expects it to worsen in coming years reported the Wall Street Journal.

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UPS Drone Meets UPS Delivery Truck

February 22, 2017 · UPS has announced that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the vehicle while the delivery driver continues along the route to make a separate delivery.

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OTTO Motors to Supply Toyota Motor Manufacturing with Flexible Automation

February 16, 2017 · Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi will use the OTTO 1500 self-driving vehicle for tire delivery in its assembly plant.

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FedEx Bets on Automation as it Prepares to Fend Off Uber and Amazon

February 6, 2017 · The shipping giant is investing in autonomous trucks, and is interested in delivery robots and an Alexa app.

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Other Voices: Building toward the factory of the future from the bottom up

February 6, 2017 · Investments in robotics and automation can start in a single work cell.

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AGVs Roll into a New Role

January 17, 2017 · Equipped with new sensors and smart software, automatic guided vehicles are pursuing and eliminating non-value-added movement of goods in warehouses and DCs.

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Year in Review: Top materials handling news in 2016

December 23, 2016 · For all the political turmoil across the globe, 2016 was by all accounts very good for the supply chain, which saw acquisitions, investments, technological advancements and record growth.

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BMW Logistics Using Autonomous Transport Robots

November 18, 2016 · The German auto manufacturer has launched a fleet of ten self-driving Smart Transport Robots to transport components through its logistics operations at its Wackersdorf plant.

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