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Driverless tractors are already farming 255,000 acres in Florida. Here's what that means for American food.
Autonomous Solutions Inc. has put self-driving John Deere tractors to work across U.S. Sugar's entire South Florida operation, the largest autonomous farm fleet ever deployed in American agriculture.

The man who automated farm tractors wants to redesign how all field robots work together
Mel Torrie built ASI from a bootstrapped startup into a global force in outdoor autonomy. At RoboBusiness 2026, he'll explain why the next decade belongs to machines that cooperate, not just machines that drive themselves.

Tax self-driving cars now to protect jobs and ease congestion, thinktank says
The UK's first robotaxis arrived in London this month. A thinktank wants the government to act before the disruption to private hire workers gets much larger.

Do driverless cars make us dumber drivers? One columnist thinks yes, and he has a point
A Guardian opinion piece argues that every automation added to the car, from automatic gearboxes to sat-nav to self-driving, quietly chips away at a human skill we never get back.

World Models: La tecnologia AI che insegna alle macchine a comprendere la fisica
Una nuova generazione di sistemi AI può simulare la gravità, prevedere collisioni e generare mondi 3D interattivi. Ecco cosa sono i world model, chi li sta sviluppando e perché sono importanti.

La startup Atoms di Travis Kalanick entra nel business dei robotaxi
La nuova azienda segreta del co-fondatore di Uber ha raccolto 1,7 miliardi di dollari nell'estate scorsa. Ora sappiamo di più su dove andranno questi fondi: taxi autonomi, assunzioni di alto profilo e almeno un'acquisizione controversa.

Waymo opens in three new cities as the robotaxi race picks up speed
Alphabet's Waymo is now taking paying passengers in San Diego, Tampa and Denver, while Amazon-backed Zoox prepares to test its distinctive box-shaped vehicle in Houston and San Diego.

London's first robotaxis are now bookable on Uber, but only 15 cars are out there
Wayve's self-driving vehicles have quietly joined the Uber app, giving Londoners a way to hail an autonomous taxi for the first time. Catch is: your odds of actually getting one are very low.

Robot, miliardi e un rialzo del 460%: le più grandi storie della robotica di agosto 2026
Dalla nuova IA di Google DeepMind per il controllo dei robot a un'azienda cinese di robotica che ha sorpreso gli investitori al suo primo giorno di quotazione, ecco di cosa parlava il mondo della robotica il mese scorso.

Una scommessa da 10 milioni di dollari su un'IA che trasmette mondi infiniti, non solo clip
Il modello Orbis di Visko genera video interattivo in 4K dal vivo indefinitamente, e il suo fondatore formato a Stanford afferma che potrebbe fornire i dati di addestramento di cui i robot diretti verso casa vostra avranno bisogno.

The 'Edge AI Wall': Why Putting Powerful AI Into a Robot Body Is Harder Than It Sounds
Robots and self-driving vehicles face a crunch that more batteries and bigger chips cannot fix. Here is the problem in plain English.

EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.

Waymo Plans Driverless Taxis in Munich by Late 2027, Its First European City
The American robotaxi company will begin mapping Munich streets in the coming weeks, with public rides targeted for the end of next year.

Autonomous vehicles jumped from one story to six in our coverage. Here is what that shape looks like.
AI2Day published six pieces on self-driving vehicles between 20 and 26 August 2026, up from a single story the week before. Three separate outlets carried the beat, so this is not one desk chasing a hunch.

BlackBerry Quietly Became a Robotics Software Company. Here Is How.
The phone maker turned automotive software firm says its QNX software is now one of its fastest-growing business lines, and robots are driving that growth.