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Hold Your Horsepower: For Mobility Industry, “Reality Is Sinking In”

Xconomy

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. I moderated the panel, which consisted of experts in the complementary fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. What are the risks and ethics around AI systems?

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. TechCrunch will be at Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference from March 18 to 21 in San Jose.

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Source13 Gathers the Biggest Names in Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

While great strides have been made in the mobile economy, there are still many challenges and opportunities to consider, and much we can learn from the market frontrunners. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. It currently offers language provision for 54 languages.

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