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Making Skin for Robots is Hard — Success Could Bring Benefits for Humans

May 6, 2021 | Robots

To recreate a human in robot form is no small piece of work. Making a human brain? Researchers have already started modelling synapses and neurons in software and hardware. A robot that can move like a human? Researchers are already building artificial...

Grocery Chain to Start Delivering Orders with Drones

May 6, 2021 | Drones, Featured, Retail

Welcome to the future, courtesy of an expansion of Kroger delivery options that will soon include packages dropped off via drone. Kroger has announced that this spring, it will pilot a drone delivery program that calls for using drones to ferry products from a test...

Drones Show California’s Great White Sharks are Closer — and More Common — Than You Think

May 6, 2021 | Drones, Oceanography

Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash. Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to...

Rental Companies Buy Up Used Cars as Chip Crisis Get Worse

May 6, 2021 | Business

The semiconductor shortage has slashed vehicle production so much that rental-car companies can’t get the new cars they need, so they have resorted to buying used vehicles at auction. This is uncharted territory for the likes of Hertz Global Holdings Inc. and...

The Emergence of Vehicle Computing

May 6, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Cloud Computing, Detroit

In Detroit, Wayne State University computer scientists Weisong Shi and Sidi Lu, have published a paper introducing a vision of vehicle computing in the autonomous driving era and highlighting the CAV as the perfect computation platform. The article’s assertions are...