by dankeelan | Apr 29, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors (GM.N) on Wednesday announced deals with major electric vehicle charging networks to offer its customers access to nearly 60,000 charging points across the United States and Canada. The No. 1 U.S. automaker said it had signed agreements with...
by dankeelan | Apr 29, 2021 | Investment, Mobility
Wunder Mobility built its business selling software to shared scooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now, it’s banking on a new — and once secret — lending division to bring in more revenue that’ll give micromobility operators another option to...
by dankeelan | Apr 29, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet and ride sharing company Lyft have signed a $550 million acquisition deal that will see the former purchase the latter’s autonomous vehicle division, Level 5. Under the deal, Level 5 will be folded into Woven Planet, ending...
by dankeelan | Apr 29, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Space
An AI-driven space debris-dodging system could soon replace expert teams dealing with growing numbers of orbital collision threats in the increasingly cluttered near-Earth environment. Every two weeks, spacecraft controllers at the European Space Operations Centre...
by dankeelan | Apr 29, 2021 | Robots
Although robotic devices are used in everything from assembly lines to medicine, engineers have a hard time accounting for the friction that occurs when those robots grip objects—particularly in wet environments. Researchers have now discovered a new law of physics...
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