SAN FRANCISCO - Waymo, the autonomous car and truck technology division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has begun mapping interstate highways in New Mexico and Texas. The move is seen by many tech observers as a prelude to long-haul evaluation runs of tractor-trailers under autonomous control systems. According to reports in various news outlets, including USA
DETROIT – Waymo announced Tuesday it will retrofit self-driving vehicles at the American Axle & Manufacturing campus in Detroit. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, which also owns Google. Waymo will partner with American Axle & Manufacturing to repurpose the existing facility, which was most recently used as a sequencing center for a local parts supplier.
DETROIT — Google this week officially opened its new office alongside Little Caesars Arena in The District Detroit and marked the occasion by awarding a $750,000 grant to SMASH Detroit and another $250,000 To the Michigan Engineering Zone at the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center. SMASH Detroit (an initiative of the Kapor Center) which works
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Chip maker Intel announced last week that is has partnered with Google spin-out Waymo since 2009. Intel has been supplying Xeon processors, Arria field programmable gate arrays - for machine vision - and gigabit ethernet solutions - to let all the various components talk to each other. "With three million miles
