Europe is rapidly becoming one of the most closely watched regions in the global robotaxi race, as autonomous-driving companies from China and the West increasingly target the same cities for commercial expansion. Unlike the United States and China, where regulatory, political and market barriers make meaningful competition by foreign autonomous-driving companies difficult, Europe remains comparatively […]

Toyota Material Handling Europe is using Nvidia simulation and digital twin technologies to accelerate the development and commissioning of autonomous forklifts, with the company targeting a reduction of up to 50 percent in commissioning effort. The material handling equipment manufacturer is working with Nvidia and technology services company SoftServe on a simulation-first approach that allows […]

QCraft, an autonomous driving technology company, signed a memorandum of understanding with HERE Technologies, a mapping and location data platform, at an event called HERE Directions 2026 in Munich. Under the MoU, the two companies will explore how HERE’s map data and location intelligence can work together with QCraft’s navigation-assisted driving technology, with the goal […]

The European TALOS project has completed three years of testing autonomous robots and AI for solar power plant maintenance, demonstrating the technology at sites in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. Funded through Horizon Europe, TALOS has developed a system that monitors solar plants, identifies performance problems, determines which maintenance jobs are economically worthwhile and recommends […]

Ency Software and robot manufacturer Estun have begun a technology partnership aimed at giving European users of Estun robots a smooth, fully integrated way to program and simulate their automation cells. Two new Estun robots were delivered to Ency Software’s R&D center in Cyprus for integration and testing. The development team completed the integration work […]

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a German-English mixture-of-experts model with 78 billion parameters, about three billion of which are active per token. Over 21 percent of the training data is German. The model was trained on 768 B200 GPUs in Germany and Finland, and the weights are freely available under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Pony AI, a developer of large-scale commercialization of autonomous driving technology, has partnered with Verne to offer fully driverless Robotaxi test rides with passengers on public roads in Zagreb, marking a European first. The milestone represents a significant step toward fully driverless commercial operations. The test rides take place along a 22-kilometer route linking Verne’s […]