Autonomous vehicles

Beyond the horizon: The evolution of the Houthi autonomous naval fleet- opinion

The sandal-clad militia has become a high-tech naval force, turning global shipping lanes into battlefields and reshaping maritime warfare

|BySIGAL GAFNI
HOUTHI SUPPORTERS lose their minds at an anti-Saudi rally in Sana’a, Yemen, July 31.
Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology executives about artificial intelligence, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2026.

Amazon in talks to acquire Israeli start-up, AI model that can edit live videos in real-time

Decart has also developed Oasis, a model that generates simulated environments to train and test robotics and autonomous-driving systems.

|ByREUTERS
Ukraine said an amphibious ground robotic vehicle completed a 40km long logistics mission

Ukraine carries out first logistics mission using an amphibious UGV

The UGV traveled more than 40 km. while carrying ammunition and food supplies to frontline positions, moving across terrain that included rivers, canals, and marshland.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Lital Leshem and Lee Moser founded Protego, Israel’s first and largest defense-tech venture capital firms after October 7 to support a growing number of start-ups in the field.

Protego Ventures closes $125m. Fund I, expands focus on early‑growth defense companies

Protego was founded by Lital Leshem and Lee Moser and invests in Israeli companies that have demonstrated operational performance

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM

The semi-automation revolution

The fascinating story of a bricklaying robot

JANUARY 16, 2020ByMARGARET QUAMME
A ROBOT GIVES a demonstration at a tech conference in Las Vegas on January 8. The book explores the leaps forward and backward in robot technolog

Intel demos autonomous car equipped only with cameras in Jerusalem

Mobileye, Intel's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, showed the car navigating through four-way intersections with no traffic lights, and changing lanes to weave into traffic.

JANUARY 7, 2020ByREUTERS
A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem

The road ahead for self-driving cars

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), driverless cars, robo-cars or robotic cars, appear to be the upcoming thing.

NOVEMBER 17, 2019ByJASON BLACKSHAW