New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Kodiak AI and PrePass connected autonomous-truck safety inspections to state roadside enforcement systems on September 21, starting in Texas and Louisiana. It's the piece Kodiak's 93%-ready safety case was still missing before a year-end driverless long-haul launch.
Robotics Amazon named a year-end target on August 19: Prime Air in nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns, a sixfold expansion. The line to file away sits further down the page, where the company puts a share on what a drone can carry.
Robotics Waymo's Advice Letter No. 4 sat at the California Public Utilities Commission for nearly seven months before clearing on August 14. It covers 12 Northern California counties and six in the south, with Sacramento and San Diego as new markets. The union that would represent those drivers cleared its own threshold a week earlier.