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AI Business

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.

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Robotics

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.

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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.

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Robotics

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.

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Robotics

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes

The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.

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Robotics

London's robotaxi dream pushed to 2025 as regulators and engineers hit the brakes

Uber and Wayve had licences in hand and a 'later this summer' promise on the table. Now, people waiting for a driverless cab in London will have to wait a lot longer.

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Robotics

Guident: Human Oversight Still Key in Autonomous Vehicle Safety

Robotaxi fleets are growing fast, and Guident says a human safety layer is the thing standing between public trust and a costly incident.

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Robotics

The tractors are getting smarter, and farms may depend on it

An aging workforce and shrinking skilled labour pool are pushing AI off the screen and into the cab. Companies like Agtonomy are betting that the most important robots of this decade will look nothing like a human.

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Robotics

Talk to Your Self-Driving Car: Researchers Build a System That Lets You Ask for a Smoother Ride

A team in the Netherlands has wired a chatbot-style AI into an autonomous vehicle's driving software, so passengers can say 'I feel dizzy, slow down' and the car actually listens. It works in simulation. Real roads are a long way off.

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Robotics

Farm robots that can park themselves: Agtonomy's tractors now reverse through tight orchard rows with no driver

A California startup has taught its autonomous tractors to perform multi-point turns in cramped vineyard spaces, and each vehicle collects more than two terabytes of field data per hour to keep the system improving.

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Robotics

Uber and Pony.ai plan 2,000 self-driving taxis across Europe and the Middle East

The ride-hailing giant is doubling down on driverless cars abroad, starting from a small but historic foothold in Croatia.

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Robotics

The Dirty Data Problem That Is Stalling the Next Wave of AI Robots

A new survey of more than 700 AI engineers finds that bad data, not weak algorithms, is the main reason physical AI systems fail before they reach the real world.

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Robotics

The US Army's $15.9 Million Robot Supply Truck Is Built to Reach Soldiers Without Getting Anyone Killed

A Colorado robotics firm just won a contract to build TALUS, an autonomous supply system designed to keep frontline troops fed and armed without sending a driver into enemy territory.

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Robotics

Moove raises $250 million to build the charging depots and service hubs that self-driving cars need

The fleet operator hit a $2.1 billion valuation and plans to triple its autonomous-vehicle workforce by year-end, betting that owning the physical infrastructure behind autonomous vehicles matters as much as the vehicles themselves.

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Robotics

The Robot That Can Move Is Useless If It Cannot See

A mining robotics company explains why perception is the hardest problem in industrial autonomy, and what happens when machines go blind in a dust cloud.

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