Jun 6, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For example, the United States has lost land roughly the size of the...
Jun 6, 2024 | Healthcare, Mobility
Renault, as a member of Software République, has helped to spearhead a series of citizen-centric mobile services with a special focus on health. Other innovations include reducing vehicle cybersecurity risks and aiming to unjam urban traffic by improving the...
Jun 6, 2024 | Recycling, Robots
Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple’s Austin, Texas, manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000-square-foot facility sits in a maze of industry parks, a quick trip...
Jun 6, 2024 | Robots, Space
Researchers in the US are working on a lightweight robot designed to explore extreme terrain, including the next celestial bodies to be studied by humans. The Loris robot (for “Lightweight Observation Robot for Irregular Slopes”) has been designed to...
Jun 6, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing
Zoox, the self-driving-vehicle unit of Amazon.com Inc. will soon expand street testing to Austin, Texas, and Miami, Fla. In a blog post Wednesday, Zoox said the expansion “marks a significant step forward.” Zoox vehicles first started testing on the streets of San...
Jun 6, 2024 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric cars are more expensive than gasoline models largely because batteries cost so much. But new technology could turn those pricey devices into an asset, giving owners benefits like reduced utility bills, lower lease payments or free parking. Ford Motor, General...
Jun 6, 2024 | Featured, Space
Boeing’s Starliner capsule will reach the International Space Station today (June 6) on its first-ever crewed mission, and you can watch the action live. Starliner is expected to dock with the orbiting lab today around 12:15 p.m. EDT (1615 GMT) on its historic...
Jun 5, 2024 | Charging, Electric Vehicles
GM is partnering with Yoshi Mobility to launch its mobile EV charging technology. This platform utilizes a “high-power mobile charging unit” to turn a vehicle into what the company calls “a supercharger on wheels.” GM enters the picture by providing the first host for...
Jun 4, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots
A couple of high-tech workers are part of the crew helping to construct a new residential tower in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. They roll through the place, take a bunch of pictures, upload everything to an artificial intelligence platform, and in the process...
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