Starsky Robotics has already used its autonomous trucks for paying gigs, including a 5,000-lb haul covering 140 miles, with 120 of those driven by the truck itself. It’s also moved trailers around a ...

An autonomous trucking start-up is going off the beaten path by offering drivers a chance to remotely control their vehicles for the last few miles of delivery. San Francisco-based Starsky Robotics ...

I can’t even drive a remote control car well. I constantly crash, then I get frustrated, and I stop. So the idea of operating heavy machinery like excavators and dump trucks via remote control both ...

Newdegate farmer Wally Newman had seen enough harvests to know there were many things that could be done more simply and safely. So when a good mate and former employee came up with the idea for a ...

To prove the toughness of its latest FMX truck, Volvo turned it into an RC racer and handed the "keys" to the luckiest 4-year-old ever. The results were what you'd expect: Pure chaos. To be fair, ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmcC2bzJjME&list=UUrmuc-WDTBiqMGma7bs5Z3g&index=1&feature=plcp[/youtube] A big imagination makes playing with remote control ...

As hackers hunt for digital weaknesses in popular consumer cars, taking remote control of Jeeps and Toyotas, a more immediate concern has emerged: fleets of trucks may be vulnerable to the simplest of ...