Toyota and Alphabet's Waymo will explore collaboration on autonomous driving technology, a potential boost to the Japanese carmaker's efforts to catch up to the cutting-edge systems offered by major rivals. The companies, along with Toyota's automotive technology division Woven, will seek to develop a new autonomous driving platform, according to a joint statement Wednesday. They'll also look to enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles, they said. Toyota and other major Japanese firms have poured money into artificial intelligence and autonomous driving for years, but have struggled to keep pace with the rapid changes spearheaded by brands like Tesla and BYD. The Japanese company is looking to accelerate development after its Woven unit, which develops its Arene software, saw delays in the wake of a management overhaul in 2023.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom walked out of the Tesla gigafactory in China last month feeling jazzed about the future. A future where people do a lot less driving, instead being whisked around by autonomous cars and flying taxis. A future where, he said, the "entire transportation system is completely reorganized." "I think it's going to come very fast," Newsom said to reporters on the last day of his trip to China promoting clean energy partnerships with California. "With AI in particular aiding this advancement, I think it's just going to explode and you're going to start seeing driverless flying cars as well."

The combined power of AI and robotics is revolutionizing mobility and manufacturing. Automated vehicles, airplanes, people movers, and warehouse robots are improving in their range, flexibility, situational awareness, and intelligence, while better technology, a hunger for increased productivity and efficiency, and the pressures of covid-19 lockdowns have fueled investment in autonomous systems. In 2020 and…

As a futurist, it's my job to look ahead -- so every year, I cover the emerging tech trends that will be shaping our digital world in the next 12 months. What technologies are gaining the most traction? What are the most important trends that business leaders should be prepared for? Read on for the ten essential tech trends you should be following in 2023. In 2023, artificial intelligence will become real in organizations.

The delivery drivers of the future may not leave a package at your door. Instead, they'll be sitting several miles or even time zones away in a control room overseeing a fleet of delivery robots or drones. A look at how innovation and technology are transforming the way we live, work and play. Companies are plowing billions of dollars into autonomous technologies they hope will improve efficiency and solve worker shortages. But executives in these industries say true autonomy is many years away–and may never come.

What will it take for a car to be able to drive itself anywhere a human can? Ask autonomous vehicle experts this question and the answer invariably includes a discussion of geofencing. In the broadest sense, geofencing is simply a virtual boundary around a physical area. In the world of self-driving cars, it describes a crucial subset of the operational design domain -- the geographic region where the vehicle is functional. Reaching full Level 5 autonomy means removing the "fence" from geofenced autonomous cars. Experts say that will require artificial intelligence that can make abstractions, inferences, and become smarter as it is being used.

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight. Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer. The Autonomous Vehicle Product Release Engineering team ensures that Torc's products meet the highest standards for quality, safety and functionality.

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight. Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer. This is a team of experienced engineers & Technicians that work on our autonomous trucks to integrate hardware and deploy software.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded BAE Systems a $7.8 million contract to develop tightly integrated machine learning software as part of the Multi-Sensor Exploitation for Tactical Autonomy (META) program. This technology will enable advanced situational awareness and automatic target recognition (ATR). Under the terms of the award, BAE Systems' FAST Labs research and development organization will provide Environmentally Adaptive Geospatial Learning and Exploitation, an innovative suite of machine learning and fusion algorithms. The system integrates multiple elements of the company's extensive autonomy portfolio to provide high confidence detection, tracking, identification, and intent understanding for critical mobile targets in contested environments, including targets under camouflage, concealment, and deception. "With the addition of environmentally adaptive processing, this solution bridges a critical gap in machine learning," said Mark Kolba, program manager for BAE Systems' FAST Labs.

The AI market is expected to be worth $36.8 billion by 2025, and as this autonomous branch of digital technology continues to evolve, we expect to see a host of incredible developments to emerge in the not-so-distant future--especially in this emerging age of the metaverse. While AI has been proven to enhance our daily consumer lives--with the adoption of autonomous vehicle technology, fitness devices, voice assistants, and smartphones--it has also served to improve the digital marketing efforts of businesses across many industries. Not only is AI proven to boost a company's productivity by up to 40%, but if leveraged strategically, autonomous technology can help brands to: Indeed, if utilized tactically and creatively, AI technology has the potential to help you connect with your audience on a deeper level than ever before, resulting in ongoing business growth. To put this notion into perspective, here we explore some quite different but equally inspiring uses of AI in digital marketing. The first of our inspiring AI in digital marketing examples comes from Sephora. Understanding the power of AI early on, thriving cosmetics brand Sephora has been using chatbot technology to offer its audience the most personalized, informational customer experience possible.