Jul 16, 2020 | Michigan, Mobility, Safety
The new Office of Future Mobility and Electrification in Michigan is meant to explore the future of transportation. The office’s goal includes making the roads safer through autonomous vehicles and new technology. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Trevor...
Jul 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
CARS HAVE NOT been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US....
Jul 16, 2020 | Climate, Featured, Robots
This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be waiting for them. The torpedo-shaped machines will be positioned in what amounts to no man’s land, places where no ships or humans might survive and where...
Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Robots
In one of the first trials of a robotic fry cook at a national burger chain, White Castle said it would work with Pasadena, Calif.-based Miso Robotics to test that company’s robotic chef at a restaurant in the Chicago area. It’s a trial run for...
Jul 16, 2020 | Robots, Work
In August, a robot vaguely resembling a kangaroo will begin stacking sandwiches, drinks and ready meals on shelves at a Japanese convenience store in a test its maker, Telexistence, hopes will help trigger a wave of retail automation. Following that trial, store...
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