Tag: globally
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Kollmorgen and Otto Motors begin strategic technical collaboration
Kollmorgen and Otto Motors have agreed a strategic technical collaboration. The cooperation is described as a “major milestone for the autonomous material handling industry” by the two companies. Kollmorgen and Otto Motors share a common goal to deliver exceptional self-driving vehicle applications to OEMs and System Integrators that strive to streamline material handling to end-users…
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Starship Technologies delivery robots clock 10 million km
Starship Technologies, a provider of autonomous delivery services, has reached what it says is “an industry first”, with the company’s robots having now passed the 10 million km mark (over 6 million miles) in terms of distance traveled around the world. This comes as the company is marking five years of commercial delivery services. This…
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Plus One Robotics’ parcel handling solutions surpass 500 million picks
Plus One Robotics, a provider of a parcel handling robotics platform claiming to performing over 1 million parcel picks each day in production, says its platform has reached over half a billion parcel picks globally. The company says the 500 million figure is “currently an industry leading metric”. Erik Nieves, Plus One Robotics’ CEO and…
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BMW invests in HeyCharge to increase electric vehicle charging points at residential locations
BMW i Ventures took a lead investment in HeyCharge, the German start-up providing electric vehicle charging stations in apartment complexes, office buildings and other infrastructure locations. HeyCharge was in Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 batch of start-ups. Kasper Sage, managing partner, BMW i Ventures, says: “The rapid growth of the electric vehicle market in coming years…
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BYD to mass manufacture Nuro’s electric autonomous delivery vehicle
BYD, one of China’s largest automotive and technology companies, has agreed a partnership with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to begin producing the company’s third-generation electric autonomous delivery vehicle. The partnership is expected to scale Nuro’s more affordable, eco-friendly, and convenient services to millions of people across the country. Stella Li, executive vice president of BYD…
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ASRock Industrial and Dynamis PRC to provide autonomous car technology for 2022 Formula Student Championship
ASRock Industrial is currently collaborating with Dynamis PRC, providing its latest Intel 10th Gen CPU motherboard IMB-1222 to power up the prototype’s autonomous driving system and participate in the 2022 Formula Student Championship. Formula Student is one of the world’s most competitive international automobile design competitions for students among university teams. Each team designs and…
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Hitachi establishes venture capital fund for start-up partners
On 1 June, Hitachi is to establish a new corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, Hitachi Ventures Fund, and unit, Hitachi Ventures GmbH (HVG), whose responsibility will be to identify and acquire equity interests in fast-growing innovative start-ups globally. HVG will hire top external talents with experience and capability on CVC activities to invest to and…
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Toyota premieres own-brand battery electric vehicles
Toyota unveiled its C-HR and IZOA battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on the opening day of Auto Shanghai 2019. The C-HR and IZOA will be the first BEVs to launch in China under the Toyota brand. Sales of the new models are expected to start from 2020. Toyota also displayed other electrified vehicles, such as hybrid…