Optimism about self-driving cars is back, driven by the very real success Waymo is having with its robotaxi service in markets like San Francisco. Elon Musk’s high-profile presentation last fall about Tesla’s robotaxi plans has surely fueled the new energy. The upbeat sentiment was palpable this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. While self-driving cars have been a feature at CES for many years now, the sector has had its ups and downs—the amount of time it took to get the technology right dashed early hopes. But as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in his Monday keynote at CES, “After so many years, with Waymo and Tesla’s success, it’s very clear [autonomous vehicles] have finally arrived.” Anyone wanting to understand Nvidia’s future path should watch Huang’s keynote, by the way, as it demonstrates the breadth of his ambitions—which definitely include self-driving cars, as well as #Robotics Revolution 🦾🤖🦿 more broadly. Wayne says robotics has been another big theme at CES this week. Industrial robots—those working in factories—are nothing new. But #Artificial Intelligence promises to make humanoid robots (of the kind that featured in Tesla’s presentation last fall) a reality. Huang was definitely promoting that idea on Monday, proclaiming that the “robotics era is just around the corner.” https://www.ces.tech/vide..