Feb 12, 2026 | Auto Industry, Hydrogen
In the past couple of years, alternative road transportation has hit something of an inflection point in the world’s major economies. According to recent data, 50% of new cars sold in China are EVs, while 19% of all cars in use in Europe are electric. The US is...
Feb 12, 2026 | Energy, Hydrogen
The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough hydrogen to form dozens of oceans of water may have been...
Feb 12, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Military, Robots
The U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) at Fort Benning launched the first pilot of the Robotic Autonomous Systems Leader Tactics Course (RASLT) yesterday as part of Army-wide Transforming in Contact (TiC) initiatives. The course will prepare Army leaders...
Feb 12, 2026 | Detroit, Education, Engineering, Featured
The Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today team spent the day on campus at Detroit’s Wayne State University just before winter break. During our visit, John Petty and Cindy Polakowski met with Kaseeb Kahn, President of the American Society of Mechanical...
Feb 12, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare
A musician who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has returned to the stage after artificial intelligence (AI) gave him his voice back. Patrick Darling, 32, from Bristol, has been a singer and composer since the age of 14 but was diagnosed with the...
Feb 12, 2026 | Satellites, Space
Space is getting crowded — nowadays, over 45,000 human-made objects orbit Earth. A portion of that figure is indeed represented by the thousands of satellites humans use for internet, GPS and other communications, but it also takes into account space junk from...
Feb 12, 2026 | Sustainability, Water
The shores of the Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, have been receding for several decades, but Utah Gov. Spencer Cox seems determined to fill it back up. In 1986, the state’s iconic lake covered about 2,300 square miles, and today...
Feb 12, 2026 | Healthcare, Robots
The first patients have had surgery using a multi-million-pound robot at a hospital in Kent. At the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Mandy Lee was the first person to have a robotic procedure using the system, named Hugo. Lee, who was...
Feb 11, 2026 | Drones, Featured, Sports
The 2026 Winter Olympics have already delivered incredible feats of athleticism and the raw emotions that help this global sporting competition transcend sports and become part of the human condition. It’s the new camera angles showing these Olympic moments,...
Feb 9, 2026 | Smart Mobility Today
I am always amazed at the energy and intelligence I hear in the voices of the engineering students that I meet on our Engineering Careers Tour. At Michigan State University, U of M Dearborn, and recently at Wayne State University, our team has met the young people who...
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