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1 week agoAurora says it will 'triple' its driverless truck network
Aurora expands its driverless trucking network to 10 Southern US routes, enabling longer autonomous trips that exceed human driver-hour restrictions.
Africa's official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete-or both. But governments don't have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as deciding where to put new solar plants to as simple as delivering a package. Now a new plan is underway to map the entire continent using satellite data and AI.
Roborock is headed outdoors. The company best known for its robot vacuum cleaners (including the recent viral one with a mechanical arm that picks up small objects) has unveiled its first robot lawnmower. In an announcement today, the company revealed three new robotic lawnmowers -- the RockMow Z1, RockMow S1, and RockNeo Q1. Each model specializes in different situations.
Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an artificial intelligence model designed to integrate massive volumes of Earth observation data into a unified digital representation of the planet. The system, described as functioning like a "virtual satellite", can process petabytes of multimodal inputs. The model addresses a long-standing challenge in Earth science: the difficulty of combining data from diverse sources and refresh rates into formats that researchers can use consistently.