Sep 9, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles
The shift towards unmanned planes is driven mainly by cost efficiency and the need to address pilot shortage issues. Operating unmanned planes can significantly reduce labor costs, and they can also help mitigate the risk of human error, which is a leading cause of...
Sep 8, 2025 | Smart Mobility Today
There has always been a tug of war between humans and nature, and nature more often wins. In this week’s Smart Mobility Today, listen to stories about how researchers and inventors are using science and technology to find solutions to the constant pull between...
Sep 4, 2025 | Agriculture, Drones
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones. But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and...
Sep 4, 2025 | Auto Industry, Robots, Training, Work
General Motors Co. worker Annie Ignaczak spent years walking in circles on concrete factory floors, assembling the same parts and counting down hundreds of pieces she and her coworkers needed to finish before lunch. “You’re doing the same movement...
Sep 4, 2025 | Accessibility, Robots
If Pixar’s Wall-E and Eve had a kid, it might look a lot like Smokey and Turbo — two white, tread-wheeled service robots with big blue eyes that can light up into smiles or even heart shapes. Aim a camera at them, and they cock their heads as if they’re posing. The...
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