Arizona

Robotics

This 30-Ton Robot Could Help Scientists Produce the Crops of the Future

Arizona has what researchers call “the climate of tomorrow, today.” Scientists are using a 30-ton robotic field scanner in the state to study plant genetics and hopefully develop stress-resilient crops.

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Autonomous Vehicles Economics of AI

Inside The City Where Waymo Tests Self-Driving Vehicles

In Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, Waymo’s fleet of 600 minivans shuttling people from place to place. Ordering one feels almost exactly like calling a Lyft or Uber, except for one thing: the vans drive themselves. Alphabet’s Waymo has been testing self-driving vehicles in Arizona since 2017 and we got a look at what […]

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AI Autonomous Vehicles

The Self-Driving Car Capital Of The World

BBC Click takes a trip to Arizona, the self-driving car capital of the world, to see how the technology works and how sometimes it does not work with tragic consequences.

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