Autonomous vehicles

Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup

V-BAT has crashed more than 50 times over the past 18 months, a Cessna plane with a Shield AI employee and his child aboard had to take evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision with a V-BAT.

|ByREUTERS
Visitors look at Shield AI’s V-BAT unmanned aerial vehicle on display during the Taipei Aerospace and Defence Technology Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, September 18, 2025.
A Bluewhite autonomy kit installed on a BL Advance Systems BLR MK2 Platform.

Elbit subsidiary acquires Israeli autonomous AI-powered off-road robotic warfare company

'Autonomy and robotics are reshaping how defense forces operate today' - Eyal Dahan, CEO of FUSE, an Elbit Systems subsidiary.

|ByJAMES GENN
U.S. Army’s experimental H‑60Mx Black Hawk helicopter uses Sikorsky’s MATRIX autonomy suite, which forms the core of the DARPA ALIAS program.

Black Hawk helicopter featuring autonomy suite transferred to US Army for testing

The Black Hawk’s Sikorsky MATRIX suite was designed to facilitate autonomous flight for the combat helicopter, from pre-flight checks to landing.

|ByJAMES GENN
Mia Dynamics already works with customers across the American homeland security ecosystem

Mia Robotics: Next‑Gen unmanned ground vehicles with robust civilian engineering

The system is a new generation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) built on a platform that has already been tested for years in civilian markets. 

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM

Porsche to install Israeli autonomous technology into future vehicles

The Haifa-based Israeli startup secured $9 million in funding last October, with Porsche and Union Tech Ventures being the major investors in the round.

MAY 20, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Porsche introduces its new Taycan 4S at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 20, 2019

Israeli startup TriEye partners with Porsche to create autonomous tech

The SWIR sensing technology developed by TriEye was manufactured to enhance visibility in unfavorable weather and night-time conditions.

MAY 20, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Porsche introduces its new Taycan 4S at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 20, 2019

Study: Driverless cars must be designed around user personality to succeed

The researchers found that openness to experience impacted both information sharing and need for control preferences.

MARCH 16, 2020ByEYTAN HALON
Yandex's autonomous car on a test drive in Tel Aviv, June 12, 2019

The semi-automation revolution

The fascinating story of a bricklaying robot

JANUARY 16, 2020ByMARGARET QUAMME
A ROBOT GIVES a demonstration at a tech conference in Las Vegas on January 8. The book explores the leaps forward and backward in robot technolog

Intel demos autonomous car equipped only with cameras in Jerusalem

Mobileye, Intel's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, showed the car navigating through four-way intersections with no traffic lights, and changing lanes to weave into traffic.

JANUARY 7, 2020ByREUTERS
A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem

The road ahead for self-driving cars

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), driverless cars, robo-cars or robotic cars, appear to be the upcoming thing.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019ByJASON BLACKSHAW