Waymo logging 150,000 Robotaxi rides and 1 million miles a week
The autonomous vehicle company’s weekly ridership has jumped more than 50% in two months and more than doubled since the start of 2024.
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Tesla offers little information on Robotaxi. Here’s the deeper scoop
After a great deal of hype, Tesla conducted its “We Robot” robotaxi reveal on Thursday Evening at Warner Studios in Los Angeles.
A robot and a billion-dollar dream: Inside Grace Brown’s quest to revolutionise aged care
24-year-old mechatronics engineer Grace Brown has been building robots since she was just 15. But her hobby became a business in 2022 when she launched Andromeda Robotics with a view to deploying the first empathetic robotic throughout nursing homes in Australia: Abi.
Meet the tech duo behind Updoc: 200K patients and a $20 million milestone
Computer science whiz Dylan Coyne sparked up an idea for a telehealth platform in 2021 when he realised working a 9-5 didn’t leave you with much time to see a doctor. Three years later, Updoc, the company he co-founded with Clifton Hodgkinson, has served more than 200,000 customers to date and banked $20 million in funding.
Robinhood’s billionaire cofounder wants to set up hundreds of solar panels in space
Aetherflux, founded by Baiju Bhatt, plans to build a constellation of satellites that can beam renewable energy to the surface using lasers.
Apple sells privacy to consumers. But it’s quietly helping police use iPhones for surveillance.
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.
OpenAI unveils o1 – 10 key facts about its advanced AI models
OpenAI has introduced the o1 series, its most sophisticated AI models to date, which are designed to excel at complex reasoning and problem-solving tasks.
Inside Dana White’s $20 million plan to bring UFC 306 to the Sphere
With billions at stake for its upcoming media rights deal, the Las Vegas-based fight promotion is creating its biggest spectacle yet. An exclusive look at the knockout production.
Australia’s first state gov-funded satellite, Kanyini, launched via SpaceX
The South Australian government’s ‘Kanyini’ satellite is now in orbit, having launched on a SpaceX mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups: Hadrian, founded by Aussie Chris Power
Forbes released its list of 25 venture-backed startups most likely to reach a USD$1 billion valuation. Melbourne’s Chris Power and his LA-headquartered aerospace manufacturing firm Hadrian made the cut.