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Huawei's intelligent driving system released in Shanghai on 22 April 2025, built on a cloud-plus-vehicle WEWA architecture and offered in four versions, the flagship carrying a dedicated highway L3 package.

ChinaRoboticsHardware & compute

MLX is an open-source machine learning framework from Apple's machine learning research team, released in December 2023 and built primarily for Apple silicon. Its NumPy-like Python API and unified-memory design let the CPU and GPU work on the same data.

Open sourceDeep learningHardware & compute

TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for speeding up and optimizing large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs, publicly released on 19 October 2023 and usable free from GitHub or as part of NVIDIA NeMo.

Large language modelsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

Triton is OpenAI's open-source, Python-like language and compiler for writing GPU kernels. It lets researchers with no CUDA experience produce efficient GPU code, often close to what an expert would write.

Open sourceDeep learningHardware & compute

Microsoft's commercial edition of its Kinect depth-sensing camera, released on 1 February 2012 at a suggested price of $249 with a version 1.0 software development kit, so that companies and researchers could build motion- and voice-based applications for Windows computers.

Consumer appsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander touched down on July 4, 1997, deployed the small Sojourner rover, used an airbag landing system for the first time, and returned thousands of images of the Martian surface.

Research historyRoboticsHardware & compute

The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first handheld computer built on Newton technology, shipping on 2 August 1993 with a pen-based interface, handwriting recognition and a modular communications design.

Research historyConsumer appsProduct history

SHRDLU was an early natural-language program built by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970 that conversed in English about a small blocks world, executing commands, answering questions and learning names — a landmark demo whose success fed an optimism later systems could not sustain.

Research historyProduct historySymbolic AI

A checkers program built by Arthur Samuel at IBM, begun in 1949 and published in 1959, that learned by memorising positions, playing itself and scoring board positions, and played at a respectable amateur level.

Research historyProduct historySymbolic AI

IBM's first electronic computer, announced to shareholders in April 1952. Built as a general-purpose machine, it ran some 25 to 50 times faster than its predecessors and opened IBM's 700 series.

Research historyProduct historyHardware & compute

ENIAC, announced on 14 February 1946, is described by the University of Pennsylvania as the first general-purpose electronic computer: a 30-ton machine with 18,000 vacuum tubes, built to produce military firing tables.

Research historyProduct historyHardware & compute

AutoNav is the autonomous driving software used by NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers. It combines stereo vision, GESTALT terrain assessment, Visual Odometry, and Field D* path planning to let rovers choose and drive safe paths without step-by-step direction from Earth.

Research historyRoboticsComputer vision

Soccer Server is a software simulator of soccer, begun by Itsuki Noda as a platform for multi-agent systems research, which later became the official soccer server of RoboCup.

Research historyOpen sourceRobotics

NVIDIA's robotics development platform for simulation, training, perception, and deployment.

RoboticsDeveloper toolsSimulation