mobility

Regent Craft's Viceroy Seaglider, the largest electric wing-in-ground-effect craft with people aboard, completed its maiden flights over Narragansett Bay, positioning ground-effect flight as a sustainable alternative to eVTOLs for regional coastal transport.

Waymo officially announced its expansion into Canada, beginning with Toronto, where it will map streets and test its autonomous driving technology with the goal of launching a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in 2028. The company is partnering with Element Fleet Management and investing in local facilities and hundreds of jobs.

巴西租车公司 Localiza 围绕三大战略支柱重组工作流程以拥抱生成式 AI：大规模实验、自然语言客户入口（首个集成 ChatGPT 的巴西出行平台）以及 AI 原生产品 Liza，展示了企业级 AI 转型的实践路径。

论文提出一种面向路网轨迹生成的图约束生成范式 Anticipatory Generative Modeling，并提出模型 Foresight，通过"anticipate–select–update–re-anticipate"循环解决路口转移选择问题，超越扩散模型等基线方法。

Moonwalkers Dusk are strap-on motorized wheels that let users walk at up to twice normal speed, launched as a consumer wearable mobility product.

Singaporean startup Strutt launched the ev¹, a self-driving "smart everyday vehicle" with four motors, obstacle avoidance, and waypoint mapping — deliberately marketed as a non-wheelchair to dodge FDA Class II medical device regulation. Trade-offs include no insurance coverage and a battery not yet cleared for air travel, with pricing at $7,500.

Ankit Gupta highlights signs of product-market fit for Tesla's FSD Supervised by preferring a Turo rental with self-driving capabilities over a cheaper Hertz car.

Waymo launches a transit rewards program in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering Waymo Cash to riders who connect Waymo trips with public transit using Visa cards to enhance multimodal transportation.

Waymo plans to introduce its autonomous, all-electric ride-hail fleet in Singapore to provide safe, accessible mobility and support the city's green initiatives.

Jinhua Zhao, a renowned transportation planner and professor at MIT, has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, effective July 1. He is known for his research on mobility systems and founding the MIT Mobility Initiative.

IntentPOI is a two-stage intention-guided reasoning framework for next POI prediction that first infers user intentions from historical mobility, peer behavior, and temporal context, then selects locations aligned with those intentions, outperforming eleven state-of-the-art baselines.

Envoy has deployed self-driving wheelchairs at Miami's airport to assist passengers with mobility.

Figure AI is conducting an 8-hour livestream demonstrating its humanoid robot moving at human speeds and operating autonomously.