For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the most challenging scenarios are often rare, complex ‘long-tail’ events that are difficult to anticipate, reproduce and train for.

Nvidia’s Alpamayo 2 Super targets the complex long-tail scenarios that remain challenging for autonomous vehicles. The model enables AVs to reason about situations, assess cause and effect, select actions and generate safe driving paths in real time. Designed to support inspectable and verifiable decision-making, Alpamayo 2 Super is now available for commercial use as part of Nvidia’s open Alpamayo family of autonomous driving foundation models.

Built on Nvidia Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post‑trained with reinforcement learning, the model advances the AV ecosystem on two fronts: open commercial licensing and leading multitask capabilities for autonomous driving.

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Tier IV has joined the Next-Generation Edge AI Semiconductor Research and Development Program led by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to advance research and development of a software-defined system-on-chip (SoC) for Level 4 autonomous driving.

Under the JST program, a research team led by Prof. Yoshihiro Kawahara of the Graduate School of Engineering at The University of Tokyo will advance research into use-case-driven, functionally differentiated physical AI chip design. Meanwhile, Tier IV is developing the logic design of an AI chip designed to efficiently process inference for end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving AI.

“In physical AI applications such as robotics and autonomous driving, GPU power consumption has long been a major bottleneck for deployment on battery-powered devices,” said Prof.

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Einride and DAF Trucks (a PACCAR subsidiary) have announced a joint initiative to integrate Einride’s autonomous driving system, Einride Driver, into DAF’s premium vehicle platform.

The collaboration marks a significant step toward the large-scale commercialization of SAE Level 4 autonomous electric freight transportation in response to industry challenges such as driver shortages and rising operating costs.

Integration of technology and electric truck platform

As a first step, Einride and DAF, together with experts from TNO (the Dutch independent research institute for applied science and innovation), will collaborate to define and test the integration of Einride’s autonomous drive system into DAF’s electric truck platform.

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Uber and Pony.ai have announced plans to collaborate on deploying more than 2,000 Pony.ai robotaxis across Europe.

The partnership will expand from the existing commercial service in Zagreb (coming soon to the Uber platform) to four additional European cities, with details about the rollout announced in phases. The expanded partnership also includes plans to deploy in the Middle East.

The agreement gives Pony.ai’s joint-deployment model a clearer path to commercial scale. The model brings together three core functions required to operate robotaxi services at scale: Level 4 (L4) autonomous driving technology, a leading mobility platform and day-to-day fleet operations.

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An autonomous excavator, the expansion of a self-driving bus trial and autonomous vehicles for airports, highways and city streets are among the latest projects to receive funding from the UK government’s CAM Pathfinder programme.

Flannery – one of the UK’s largest plant hire businesses and Gravis Robotics have secured funding from the first CAM Pathfinder: Enable competition to develop a first-of-its-kind, automated excavator for the construction industry.

The UK construction industry is facing unprecedented demand over the next decade, with over £530billion earmarked for development, but with an aging workforce and severe skills shortages looming, the organizations hope to demonstrate how embracing automation could help keep Britain building.

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Zoox has received a commercial exemption from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for its purpose-built autonomous robotaxi. The exemption provides federal regulatory approval for Zoox to operate its robotaxi service commercially and charge passengers.

The exemption process

Zoox says its purpose-built robotaxi required extensive engagement with NHTSA because existing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) were not designed for vehicles without conventional controls and layouts. The company says the regulatory process reflects its approach to developing and deploying a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in accordance with applicable safety requirements.

In 2025, NHTSA introduced a new exemption pathway for US manufacturers developing autonomous vehicles without traditional manual controls.

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Hyundai Motor Group has named Junghyun Kwon as its new executive vice president and head of the Autonomous Driving Development Center. According to the company, Kwon will be pivotal in advancing Hyundai’s autonomous driving capabilities. He will report to Minwoo Park, president and head of the advanced vehicle platform division.

Kwon is an autonomous driving AI expert who has worked at leading global tech companies. He oversaw autonomous driving software development and commercialization at Nvidia. Most recently, Kwon led intelligent robot development at Samsung Electronics.

Drawing on his deep expertise in autonomous vehicle perception software, deep learning, machine learning and computer vision technologies, Kwon will lead the group’s autonomous driving technology development from conception through product commercialization.

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Uber Technologies, Inc and Wayve‘s partnership to bring autonomous rides to London has taken an important step forward after Transport for London (TfL) granted Private Hire Vehicle licences to a number of Wayve’s autonomous all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles. The cars, which are equipped with the Wayve AI Driver and surround cameras and radar, were inspected to confirm that these vehicles meet all of TfL’s policy and safety standards.

The licensing of the vehicles completes the ‘triple-lock’ requirement for private hire trips, where the operator, driver and vehicle must all hold licences with the same licensing authority. Trips will take place under the UK government’s Automated Vehicle Trialling Code of Practice and Uber’s TfL Private Hire Operator licence.

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PlusAI has shared updated commercial readiness metrics for the first half of 2026, highlighting continued progress toward the commercial deployment of factory-built autonomous trucks targeted for 2027.

The company says it has continued to improve the safety validation, operational maturity and efficiency of SuperDrive since the January 2026 update of the metrics, while also achieving significant commercial milestones. PlusAI expects to achieve 100% safety-case readiness in 2027. During the first half of 2026, it:

• Launched a commercial autonomous fleet trial with International and Ryder on the I-35 freight corridor in Texas;
• Announced the first autonomous trucks in Southern Europe, in cooperation with Spanish logistics operator Sesé and the Government of Aragon, Spain;
• Released SuperDrive 6.0, delivering significant AI and processing improvements as well as enabling night driving and construction zone handling designed for scaled driverless operations;
• Expanded its collaboration with Nvidia by leveraging the Alpamayo foundation model, Drive Hyperion and Halos safety technologies;
• Achieved four key ISO certifications supporting commercial deployment;
• Expanded international commercialization efforts through partnerships in Europe and Japan;
• Received Fast Company’s 2026 World Changing Ideas recognition for SuperDrive.

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UK software specialist rFpro has added Solectrix‘s SXIVE (Simplified eXtensive Image and Video Engine) image-processing technology to its AV Elevate platform, enabling engineers to design, model and optimise the entire camera pipeline in simulation. By facilitating development before physical prototypes are available, the solution allows sensor optimization and training dataset production to shift earlier in the development cycle, significantly reducing costs.

The integration will support the tuning of image signal processing (ISP) and camera parameters against edge cases, the training of perception models with SXIVE-processed synthetic data and testing complete vision pipelines under highly variable conditions.

The update brings Solectrix’s software-based ISP into rFpro’s camera model, enabling engineers to optimize key processing steps directly in simulation, such as debayering, color correction, tone mapping, denoising, lens distortion and lens shading correction.

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