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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russian internet major Yandex launches driverless taxi in Moscow  bne IntelliNews Source link

People pass by a sign of Yandex company, a Russian internet search engine, at its headquarters in Moscow, December 2, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register March 4 (Reuters) – Online food-ordering company Grubhub on Friday said it was ending a partnership with Russian tech giant Yandex NV (YNDX.O) for driverless robots that deliver food to college students. The announcement came as Russian firms are being shunned globally over the invasion of… Source link

MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/. Yandex sees interest in the application of driverless technologies for deliveries in Dubai, the press service of the Russian technology company told TASS on Monday. “We see much interest in self-driving technologies in delivery worldwide, including this region,” the company said. Negotiations with potential partners are underway now, the press service added. The Nation News reported earlier that Yandex was considering an opportunity to launch robotic couriers… Source link

Autonomous vehicle company Aurora recently launched a partnership with FedEx (FDX) to test the use of self-driving trucks to ship goods between Dallas and Houston. The project features an operator in the truck to oversee the system in its initial stage, though Aurora plans to launch a driverless version of the experiment within the next two years.The trucks will travel a route measuring almost 500-miles to help FedEx deliver packages across the state of Texas. Aurora looks to help ease the… Source link

Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Yandex Self-Driving Group (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced Tuesday it reached a multi-year partnership with the delivery company Grubhub to expedite deliveries on college campuses in the United States. The idea is to use Yandex’s technology and its driverless robots to deliver food to students on college campuses. The US delivery firm, on the other hand, has a partnership with over 250 college campuses across the… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Driverless robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States after Russian tech giant Yandex and online food-ordering company GrubHub agreed a multi-year partnership, Yandex said on Tuesday. Sometimes described as Russia’s Google, Yandex offers a raft of services, from advertising and search to ride-hailing and food delivery. It began testing autonomous delivery robots in 2019 and already operates at some locations in central Moscow… Source link

MOSCOW, July 6 (Reuters) – Driverless robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States after Russian tech giant Yandex and online food-ordering company GrubHub agreed a multi-year partnership, Yandex said on Tuesday. Sometimes described as Russia’s Google, Yandex offers a raft of services, from advertising and search to ride-hailing and food delivery. It began testing autonomous delivery robots in 2019 and already operates at some locations in… Source link

MOSCOW, July 6 (Reuters) – Driverless robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States after Russian tech giant Yandex and online food-ordering company GrubHub agreed a multi-year partnership, Yandex said on Tuesday. Sometimes described as Russia’s Google, Yandex offers a raft of services, from advertising and search to ride-hailing and food… Source link

Waymo One, the ride-hailing service that uses driverless vehicles in the suburbs of Phoenix, can now be accessed and booked through Google Maps. This will be the first fully autonomous ride-hailing option available in the app, which will roll out first to Android users, Waymo said Thursday. The team-up not only brings together two Alphabet companies, it signals Waymo’s push to become more visible and accessible to the public. Waymo has abut 600 vehicles in its U.S…. Source link

When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.” This implied that the so-called “Other Bets” in Google’s financial reports — subsidiaries that work on projects ranging from self-driving cars to cancer cures — aren’t just moonshot bids to make the world better, but potential businesses… Source link