The automotive industry has the largest number of robots working in factories around the world: Operational stock hit a new record of about one million units. This represents about one third of the total number installed across all industries. "The automotive industry effectively invented automated manufacturing," says Marina Bill, President of the International Federation of Robotics. "Today, robots are playing a vital role in enabling this industry's transition from combustion engines to electric power. Robotic automation helps car manufacturers manage the wholesale changes to long-established manufacturing methods and technologies."

Cipia an AI computer vision in-cabin automotive solutions provider announced that the company had secured a design win with an additional Chinese OEM together with Tier 1 HiRain. Cipia's Driver Sense Driver Monitoring System (DMS) will be incorporated into a pickup truck model that will be sold in South America, Australia and New Zealand. The model is expected to start production in 2023. With this announcement, Cipia has now been awarded 29 design wins across 6 car manufacturers. Yehuda Holtzman, CEO of Cipia, said "The selection of Cipia's DMS by a new OEM and Tier 1 demonstrates again the reliability and quality of our technology, and our ability to deliver safer and better driving experiences. We are continuing to push and expand our collaborations with new OEMs, focusing on the US, European and Chinese markets."

Artificial intelligence promises to make sweeping changes across society, but a report released Thursday by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty S.E. The report, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Future Outlook and Emerging Risks, says AI comes with both potential and risks in such diverse areas as economic, political, mobility, health care, defense and environmental. AI, the report said, "spans applications in almost every industry and has been predicted to increase corporate profitability in 16 industries across 12 economies by an average of 38% by 2035." The Allianz Risk Barometer 2018 rated the impact of AI and other forms of new technology as the seventh top business risk, ahead of political risk and climate change. Companies face new liability scenarios and challenges as responsibility shifts from human to machine, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty said in the report.

A new generation of cars keeps an eye on you… to make sure you keep an eye on the road. A tiny camera on the dashboard monitors every blink of the driver's eyes to make sure they're not drowsy or distracted. It tracks the exact position and tilt of their face, the direction of gaze, eyelid activity, the rate and duration of every blink, how dilated their pupils are, how open their eyes are, whether their mouth is open, and more. Using AI and computer vision, it is constantly watching out for signs of cell phone usage, seatbelt-wearing and smoking, and checking that the driver is actually focused on the road. If they're not, it calls them out on it.

Machine learning systems have for years now been besting their human counterparts at everything from Go and Jeopardy! to drug discovery and cancer detection. With all the advances that the field has made, it's not unheard of for people to be wary of robots replacing them in tomorrow's workforce. These concerns are misplaced, argues Gerd Gigerenzer argues in his new book How to Stay Smart in a Smart World, if for no other reason than uncertainty itself. AIs are phenomenally capable machines, but only if given sufficient data to act on. Introduce the acutely fickle precariousness of human nature into their algorithms and watch their predictive accuracy plummet -- otherwise, we'd never have need to swipe left. In the excerpt below, Gigerenzer discusses the hidden privacy costs of sharing your vehicle's telematics with the insurance company.

The ethics of self-driving cars have been questioned for a long time for accident-related instances. Even today, self-driving cars face several dilemmas that need to be addressed urgently.

The automotive industry has experienced incredible developments in recent years. Electric cars, hybrid cars, and partially autonomous vehicles are now dominating the market, contributing to safer roads and a greener world. But while these advancements have been a big step forward for car manufacturers, they only represent a fraction of the auto industry's potential. A natural next step for the automotive industry is the heightened integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into vehicles and the processes behind their creation. After all, automation technologies are taking over the entire world, and many automakers are already making leaps and strides when it comes to research and development.

Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a report documenting crashes involving cars with automated driving components. The report looked at data on Automated Driving Systems (commonly referred to as "self-driving cars") and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (cars equipped with lane-keeping technology and adaptive cruise control, such as Tesla's Autopilot). The New York Times covered the report's release. A quick scroll through Twitter showed that the public divided: Is this technology something to praise, or something to fear? Ultimately, the NHTSA report, while an essential first step, doesn't leave a clear picture whether self-driving cars will prevent crashes when they arrive in the future.

US car manufacturers reported nearly 400 crashes involving cars with partially autonomous driver assistance systems, according to a new report from a US car-safety regulator released on Wednesday. Tesla, which has about 830,000 vehicles on the road with driver-assist programmes that have partial control over speed and steering, reported 273 crashes, about 70 percent of the total, according to The Associated Press. Companies caution that drivers must remain prepared to intervene and take control of driving at all times, even in cars with partially autonomous systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) collected reports of such crashes from manufacturers from July 2021 through May 2022, the first broader report of its kind. The NHTSA said the report provided "crucial data necessary for research and for the development of policies to enhance the safety of these technologies".

Wendy Gonzalez is the CEO of Sama, the provider of accurate data for ambitious AI. Autonomous cars are as intrinsic to visions of the future as holograms and space travel. Since the birth of science fiction, the automobile has been seen as the final frontier of technological innovation. However, when we look around at our cities today, cars can often seem stuck in the past. The reality is that the vision for the automotive industry has far exceeded the pace of its progress.