Jun 29, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, Space
A twin-fuselage jet stood ready on Thursday to carry a Virgin Galactic rocket plane with a three-man crew from Italy into the New Mexico sky for a high-altitude launch of the company’s first flight of paying customers to the edge of space. The two Italian...
Jun 29, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
Darcy Desjarlais, senior truck operations specialist at Aurora, hovers both hands under the steering wheel of Aurora’s self-driving truck as it cruises at 65 miles per hour down Interstate 45, heading in its typical route towards Houston. Above his palms could be the...
Jun 29, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Government, US Economy
President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday said it intends to invest $2 billion from last year’s Inflation Reduction Act to accelerate domestic manufacturing of electric vehicles and resuscitate plants that are struggling. Speeding grants and other...
Jun 29, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Michigan
Former President Donald Trump is trying to tap into union autoworkers’ anxieties about the switch to electric vehicles, seeking a political vulnerability in one of the Biden administration’s signature economic policies. He aimed a barrage of attacks at...
Jun 29, 2023 | Oceanography, Robots
The mysteries of the ocean abound. And now, a group of student researchers is trying out a new way to gain better and more accurate information – with a robot fish. The robot, named Belle, was created by students at the university ETH Zürich. They designed...
Recent Comments