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Robotics

Nobody Has Built the Car Wash for Self-Driving Cars

Waymo can handle the driving. Cleaning, charging, and inspecting its vehicles still requires a trip across town, an industrial lot nobody can find, and years of permitting. That's the real bottleneck.

3 min read
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Robotics

Self-Driving Truck Startup PlusAI Is Going Public at an $800 Million Valuation

The California company already runs driverless freight routes in Texas. Now it wants Wall Street's money to put autonomous trucks in showrooms by 2027.

4 min read
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Robotics

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.

4 min read
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AI2Day OriginalRobotics

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

Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work

Investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are stuck in an early, limited phase, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.

4 min read
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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.

3 min read
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Robotics

DAF Trucks and Einride team up to put self-driving electric lorries on Europe's roads

A Swedish autonomous driving startup and a Dutch truck giant are combining their technology to move heavy freight without a human at the wheel. Here is what they are building and when it could happen.

4 min read
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Robotics

Self-driving truck startup PlusAI hits new safety milestones ahead of 2027 launch

Three readiness measures are all moving in the right direction, and the company says driverless commercial trucks are a 2027 target, not a distant dream.

3 min read
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AI Business

Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Car Quietly Built the AI Chip Inside Every iPhone

A cancelled car project turns out to be the origin story of Apple's most important piece of AI hardware.

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