Locations chosen for the trials in the Horizon 2020 project are Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Cranfield in the UK and Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The council will create a driverless shuttle service for moving people and goods across the UK town’s major stadium as well as invest in drones for enhancing security and robots for goods delivery and hospitality.
Esri UK is partnering with drone specialist Heliguy to offer customers drone hardware, pilot training and flying services along with its existing flight planning, data capture, data processing and GIS software services.
Agreement between Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority and the Dubai Air Navigation Services aims to step up cooperation in examining all aspects of the use of AAVs.
AAV specialist EHang will work with local partners to realise its plans to conduct passenger flights and goods transportation with autonomous air taxis in urban areas in the Austrian city.
Urban-Air Port and Hyundai Air Mobility want to develop an infrastructure to facilitate the creation of urban transportation systems to move people and cargo by air.
The Cirrus Insite platform enables users to connect data from external sources, to ensure the digital twin remains a true and connected replica of their asset.
The four-legged robot called Spot, which is fitted with safety sensors to detect objects and people in its path, is being deployed over a 3km stretch in a section of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park.
EHang will work with the Seville government to develop the programme which will include passenger transportation, air logistics and command-and-control platforms in the city.
A new report also shows that 20 per cent of parcels globally could be delivered by drones, robots or AVs by 2030. Further, automated delivery technology could play a part in the coronavirus pandemic response.
The Consumer Technology Association ranks the states on how supportive their policies are and the latest list shows innovation is not confined to the coastal tech hubs.
The autonomous aerial vehicle technology platform company, EHang, will establish a low-altitude aviation transportation network that will shuttle passengers and goods.
The vehicles can fly without human intervention and provide on-the-fly analysis that could help locate a missing person or monitor a fire in an emergency situation.
The Global Fourth Industrial Revolution councils will work together to develop policy guidance and address governance gaps in areas such as AI, IoT and blockchain.
As well as outlining its plans for urban mobility, the government has also launched a £90 million competition for cities to deliver Future of Mobility Zones.
The Open Data Institute has called on the Government to work with Google, Apple and Uber to publish more map data to help emerging technologies such as drones and autonomous vehicles
Innovation foundation Nesta is engaging with cities, government, NHS, police and fire services as well as industry and academics to shape drone systems that will put people first
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.
