Today’s Solutions: December 19, 2025

Google guesses it will be 30 years or more before truly autonomous vehicles can drive anywhere on public roads. Shortening that timeline means improving the technology, or simplifying the environment. Auro Robotics is choosing the latter. The three-year-old startup is starting to deploy autonomous vehicles at US universities to dominate the market for automated shuttles. Auro’s electric self-driving golf-carts have already roamed the campuses of Santa Clara University and California State University Sacramento during pilot…

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