Mar 28, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
The excitement of auto racing comes from split-second decisions and daring passes by fearless drivers. Imagine that scene but without the driver – the car alone, guided by the invisible hand of artificial intelligence. Can the rush of racing unfold without a driver...
Mar 28, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence
The tiny fruit fly, one of the most popular model organisms in science, lives fast and dies at about 50 days old. But this brief life is anything but unremarkable. The fly fills its days with intricate routines and schemes—and, on...
Mar 28, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Military
U.S. government spending on artificial intelligence has exploded in the past year, driven by increased military investments, according to a report by the Brookings Institution, a think tank based in Washington D.C. The report found that the potential value of...
Mar 28, 2024 | Electric Vehicles, UK
Cars have a weight problem. Consider the Mini, designed to save precious fuel during rationing; it has ballooned in size. It is not alone. Cars have got bigger and bigger, with the rise of the SUV only accelerating the trend. Electric cars might look the same...
Mar 28, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Military
One day, autonomous drones using artificial intelligence could survey scenes like the Baltimore bridge collapse to search for survivors, or even inspect bridges to detect maintenance needs. Those are some of the potential future benefits of a $3.3...
Mar 28, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Had they been more widely deployed between 2020 and 2022, autonomous vehicles, also known as AVs, self-driving cars or robotaxis, could have prevented more than 1,300 traffic fatalities, according to a report published Tuesday by the Chamber of...
Mar 28, 2024 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Robots
Starting in early March, dozens of large, futuristic-looking white machines started slowly trolling through farmland in The Netherlands. At first glance, the machines look like a cross between a tractor and World War I-era track-based tank, albeit with a distinctly...
Mar 28, 2024 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Michigan
Ford Motor Co. is dramatically cutting the hourly workforce at the factory that builds the Ford F-150 Lightning starting next week, as the automaker slashes product targets of its all-electric pickup. Of the 2,100 workers who make up three work crews at the Rouge...
Mar 28, 2024 | Featured, Michigan, Nuclear
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the Holtec Palisades Training Center on Thursday before announcing the federal government’s commitment to offer a $1.5 billion conditional loan to restart the Palisades nuclear plant. ...
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