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Yandex has partnered with Amer’s Deli to deliver food with the Rovers, six-wheeled delivery bots that weigh about 150 pounds and are large enough to carry the equivalent of five large pizzas. By fall, the company anticipates adding more restaurants to its delivery offerings here. Ramping up those operations this spring is not as arduous as starting from scratch, Vorobev says, in part because Yandex already has self-driving test vehicles on Ann Arbor roads. The company deployed seven of its… Source link

Yandex has partnered with Amer’s Deli to deliver food with the Rovers, six-wheeled delivery bots that weigh about 150 pounds and are large enough to carry the equivalent of five large pizzas. By fall, the company anticipates adding more restaurants to its delivery offerings here. Ramping up those operations this spring is not as arduous as starting from scratch, Vorobev says, in part because Yandex already has self-driving test vehicles on Ann Arbor roads. The company deployed seven of its… Source link

A Yandex self-driving car in Las Vegas, during the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Yandex Yandex Self-Driving Group has driven seven million autonomous miles (11.5 million kilometers) since the team was founded in 2017, more than any other company has announced, save for Alphabet’s Waymo. That’s up from two million miles in February, 2020, showing the company’s continued progress, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Artem Fokin, Head of Business Development for the group,… Source link

Yandex Rovers is continuing to expand its reach by providing autonomous delivery services from Moscow supermarkets. Amid growing consumer appetite for on-demand food delivery, Yandex Self-Driving Group has expanded delivery by rover couriers beyond restaurants and its own Yandex.Lavka dark stores. Yandex Rovers has started making deliveries from Azbuka Vkusa and VkusVill supermarkets in the central Moscow district of Khamovniki, with plans to extend rover delivery to other… Source link

If you order a pizza from Domino’s in Houston, a robot might drop off your dinner. The company will this week start making autonomous deliveries with the help of Nuro’s R2 robot, almost two years after it announced the project. Domino’s says R2 is the first fully self-driving, on-road delivery vehicle to receive regulatory approval from the Department of Transportation. On certain days and times, folks who order from a Domino’s location in Woodland Heights can choose to have R2 deliver… Source link

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The COVID-19 health crisis in much of the U.S. seems likely to hasten the adoption of self-guided robots and drones for goods transportation. They require disinfection, which companies like Kiwibot, Starship Technologies, and Postmates are conducting manually with sanitation teams. But in some cases, delivery rovers like Refraction’s could minimize the risk of spreading disease. Recent market… Source link

Yandex, Russia’s multi-hyphenate internet giant, began testing its autonomous cars on Moscow’s icy winter roads over three years ago. The goal was to create a “universal” self-driving vehicle that could safely maneuver around different cities across the globe. Now, Yandex says its trials have been a resounding success. The vehicles recently hit a major milestone by driving over 10 million kilometers (over six million miles) in autonomous mode, with the majority of the distance traveled in… Source link

WATERLOO, ON and BEIJING, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Baidu, whose high-definition maps will run on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS) and will be mass-produced in the forthcoming GAC New Energy Aion models from the EV arm of GAC Group (Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.). BlackBerry Logo Black (PRNewsfoto/Blackberry Limited) The milestones build on the company’s January… Source link

TipRanks These 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Are Top Picks for 2021, Say Analysts Some traditions are too time-honored to shirk, and on Wall Street, the annual ‘top picks’ are one. Usually made at the very end or very beginning of a year, the Street’s analysts publish reviews on the stocks they believe will show the best performance in coming months – their top picks. The analysts have been analyzing each stock carefully, looking at its past and current performance, its trends on a variety… Source link

Anthony Levandowski stood at the center of the race between Google and Uber to build self-driving cars. He was there at the beginning of Google’s program in 2009. By the time it became Waymo in 2016, he’d left, founded a self-driving truck company called Otto, and sold that (in 2016) to Uber for $600 million. He was eventually indicted on dozens of federal charges, accused of stealing 14,000 files containing Google’s self-driving trade secrets. In August, Levandowski was sentenced to 18… Source link