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Public patent records show Rosendin signed its robot patents over to ULC Technologies in June 2025. In February 2026, ULC assigned them, plus three related applications, to Nextpower, the company formerly called Nextracker. Nobody has announced a deal.
Federal investigators say a Waymo was the first car to stop for an Austin school bus in January, then drove past after a remote assistance agent in Michigan said it wasn't a school bus with active signals. Austin's school district counts at least four violations after Waymo's November software fix, The Verge reported.
At a March 2 hearing, city officials said stalled robotaxis delayed an ambulance and left first responders moving cars. Waymo apologized but declined to share key staffing numbers.
AVA answers questions about settling an estate. Its builders cut their test set from 91 questions to 16 and scaled back the goal of replicating a human helper.
The NRC let a TerraPower subsidiary build a 345-MWe sodium-cooled reactor near a coal plant in Kemmerer. It can't run without a separate operating licence.
Honda built a megacasting process for the Honda 0 Series battery case, then cancelled three U.S.-built EVs in March 2026 and booked operating expenses of up to ¥1.12 trillion. Fewer parts didn't fix weak demand.
Volaris and its vendor say bots now handle most customer conversations and that the unit pays for itself. The figures come from the vendor, and they don't all match.
Amrize estimates the mix cuts the concrete's carbon footprint by 35%. Meta later said it reached full strength 43% faster. Both are company figures.
At Lynn, Mass., blasting media settling in a wet-blast machine cost more than an hour of setup per batch and three to five hours a day. GE says fixing it, with other small changes, cut lead time on the F404 turbine shaft 49%.