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BattleBots: Behind The Scenes With Ghost Raptor

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Our first match airs tonight at 8 pm Eastern, but the road to the arena began months before the contest began filming in Las Vegas last autumn. The contest is held in a cluster of semi-permanent tents in a parking lot behind Caesar's Palace on the Las Vegas strip.

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Audi showcases piloted driving version of prologue concept hybrid

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System power output of 505 kW (677 hp) and a combined torque of both engines of 950 N·m (700.7 The piloted driving showcar explores the fusion of the car’s architecture with the display and control concept to create a novel unit. Earlier post.) The hybrid powertrain has a muscular 4.0 CO 2 emissions are 185 g/km (297.7

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Daimler Trucks to invest €500M in highly automated trucks; stepping away from platooning, shooting for L4 automation

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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimler Trucks announced that it will invest €500 million (around US$570 million) over the next years and create more than 200 new jobs in its global push to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road within a decade.

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Ford Augments MyFord Touch System to Coach Drivers on Fuel Economy Performance

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The MyFord Touch driver connect technology, introduced at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, replaces many of the traditional vehicle buttons, knobs and gauges. When Ford of Europe engineers tested the feature, they achieved up to a 15% improvement in fuel economy using the Eco-Route.

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Continental integrates Ambarella’s scalable system-on-chip family in advanced driver assistance system

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In addition, CV3 includes a general vector processor (GVP), an advanced image processor, a dense stereo and optical flow engine, up to 16 Arm Cortex-A78AE CPUs, and an automotive GPU, in a single SoC. As an added value to vehicle manufacturers, they can reduce their engineering investments across all vehicle types.

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AEye introduces “iDAR” perception system for autonomous vehicles; fusion of LiDAR, computer vision and AI

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—Barry Behnken, AEye’s VP of Engineering. At CES in Las Vegas this week, AEye will be offering private demonstrations and in-car on-road experiences by appointment. It requires no software changes, and enables them to bring in the more advanced features over time.

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