When you think of a self-driving car, you might have a space age, egg-looking vehicle with small wheels pictured in your mind (thanks to Google). However, executives at Nvidia claim that they may not end up being so futuristic-looking after all, according to the Wall Street Journal.
As of May 2015, the graphics cards maker has begun shipping hardware and software to manufacturers, such as Bentley and Tesla. One of the items includes a graphics processor that helps automobiles “see” the world around them.
The hardware isn’t particularly large, though, which means future autonomous cars should look somewhat similar to other models we see on the road today.
Danny Shapiro, the director of automotive operations at Nvidia, says the company’s technology can help cars detect objects around them. It also can give an automobile the ability to decipher between other cars, such as ambulances and police cars.
Shapiro acknowledged the competition to get the first self-driving car on the market. However, he noted that cars need to be sufficiently trained before they are sent out on the market for consumers to buy.
In January 2015, Nvidia debuted its Tegra X1 mobile super chip designed for deep learning. At the time, the company specified that it would be featured in Nvidia Drive car computers. Tegra X1 has a 256-core Maxwell GPU, eight CPU cores and is built on a 20nm process. The chip itself is the size of a thumbnail.
“This impressive technical achievement benefits both 3D graphics, particularly on devices with high-resolution screens, as well as GPGPU software that is becoming more prevalent, particularly in automotive applications,” said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of the Linley Group.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.