Sep 21, 2023 | Charging, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Technology innovations are usually disruptive, but they don’t have to be disasters for legacy players. Adapting is key. That’s what some gas-station operators are doing in the face of an existential threat from electric vehicles. Wednesday, Blink Charging (ticker:...
Sep 21, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, UK
It’s the first time the BEV share has exceeded 20%, and is almost double the 11.6% share at the same time last year. Since the start of the year, BEV registrations across the EU more than doubled to 165,165 units, with all countries except for Malta...
Sep 21, 2023 | Drones, Featured, Space
Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out across a landscape and walk for hours while staring at the ground. Now, some scientists are turning to drones...
Sep 21, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Recent data analyses underscore a promising trend: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are showcasing remarkable safety records, a development that should warrant policymakers’ attention and ease public concern. A Pennsylvania State University study has found that AVs have...
Sep 21, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Here on ABC7, we’ve covered autonomous cars on the roads. But there’s another movement happening with autonomous flying taxis. A new company just opened an office in Fremont, where autonomous aircraft are being built. Supernal is an advanced...
Sep 21, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) used generative AI in a “kindergarten for robots” to teach robots how to make breakfast — or at least, the individual tasks needed to do so — and it didn’t take hundreds of hours of coding and errors and bug fixing. Instead, researchers...
Sep 21, 2023 | Energy, Power, Robots
Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors. The group’s paper,...
Sep 13, 2023 | Robots, Space
A robotic telescope on the moon could peer deeper into the universe than the famed James Webb Telescope can and perhaps even help find life on exoplanets, scientists say. Astronomers think that powerful instruments on the moon may open the next frontier in...
Sep 13, 2023 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Stellantis wants to reduce the weight of its electric vehicle battery packs by 50% before the end of the decade. As it stands, the conglomerate believes that battery packs are too heavy and it is looking to cut weight with advanced battery technologies and...
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