Google's music service in China hasn't achieved much so far; no one should look for Google's next quarterly financial report to say it's brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or toppled Baidu. But neither has it failed, and one person who's close to the service recently indicated that it's picking up steam. Gary Chen is close by merit of being the founder and CEO of Orca Digital. Orca...
Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Sedan , Performance , SUV , Crossover , Porsche , Luxury It doesn't seem that long ago that Porsche was a two-car company. But since then, the German automaker has come out with the Cayenne and the Panamera, taking it into new territory - for better or worse. Now that it's part of the Volkswagen Group , sources expect Porsche to begin expanding its lineup even more,...
The German Design Council said that it will present a 2010 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Audi A5 Coupe. What does the Head of Design for the Volkswagen Group, Walter de Silva have to say about that? “The Audi A5 Coupé is the most beautiful car I’ve ever designed and is [...]
By observing a driver's habits, the artificial intelligence tool called AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) learns routines and how best to assist with navigation and maintenance. AIDA is being developed by Audi and the Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab in collaboration with MIT's Personal Robots Group along with its Media Lab and SENSEable City Lab.
Volkswagen Group is well on course to meeting the target it set in 2007 to slash the average fuel consumption of its China-made vehicles - a pace it plans to accelerate by locally producing VW's latest engine and transmission designs.
Volkswagen's Russian subsidiary Volkswagen Group Rus wants to be the first foreign company included in the Russian government's list of some 300 companies that are integral to the economy, RBC Daily, a Moscow-based business newspaper, reported on Monday.
MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America’s Electronics [...] > Read complete article inside...
Volkswagen AG, Europe's largest carmaker, said third-quarter profit plunged 86 percent as vehicle prices fell and the Audi luxury brand's deliveries declined in western Europe. Net income fell to 172 million euros ($255.3 million), or 43 cents a share, from 1.21 billion euros, or 3.
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT`s SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group of America`s Electronics Research Lab.
Audi demonstrated once again just how important it is for Volkswagen AG, revealing on Friday its parent group would have posted a loss before tax in the first nine months were it not for the premium brand.
AIDA is a project created by MIT’s Personal Robots Group, the SENSEable city lab and Volkswagen Group of America’s Electronics Research Lab. The cute robot is lovingly called AIDA, but its real name is a long Affective Intelligent Driving Agent...
Europe’s largest automaker, Volkswagen AG, has reported lower than expected profits for the third quarter due to an 81 percent decline in operating profits. VW maintains full-year earnings will drop year over year. VW reported a drop to $409.7 million in operating profit for the third-quarter. This reported drop puts VW’s earnings far below the expected [...]
German carmaker Volkswagen AG said on Thursday net income for the third quarter plunged 86% as the global downturn affected demand for its cars and trucks.
Ever wish you had someone to accompany you on a long drive -- a companion that knows you well, can help you avoid traffic jams, maybe even help find the cheapest gas along the route home from work? If so, a research team at MIT may be developing something for you. The university today announced that MIT scientists are working to develop a robot dubbed the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)...
Instead of aiming for sales of 200,000 cars in China in 2015, Volkswagen AG’s premium unit Audi AG will target that number in 2013, according to Audi’s head of sales Peter Schwarzenbauer.
According to the latest reports, we found out that a version of the tiny Volkswagen E-Up! Concept is likely to be sold in the United States. “The reason we are working on an electric vehicle is the American market,” said Ulrich Hackenberg, board member in charge of product development at Volkswagen AG.
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