Sep 13, 2023 | Aerial Vehicles, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
While the Big 3 are grabbing most of the headlines out of the North American International Auto Show, a startup company is hoping to muscle their way into the news by unveiling their vision for the future of personal transportation. Alef Aeronautics is on the floor of...
Sep 13, 2023 | Climate, Drones
Dinosaur Ridge in Jefferson County is going high-tech trying to preserve footprints where dinosaurs once roamed. Drones are being used to map the footprints to study how to stop the erosion. Guides offered perspective on the period visitors of the area are learning...
Sep 13, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Trucks
The California State Senate this week passed a bill that, if signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will ban driverless autonomous trucks on the state’s roads. Basically, Assembly Bill 316 prohibits autonomous trucks weighing 10,001 pounds or more from...
Sep 13, 2023 | Robots, Weather
To better understand the world’s largest storms, submersibles known as “gliders” are being deployed underneath hurricanes to monitor and collect data that help create more accurate forecasts. The gliders are torpedo-shaped watercraft developed by...
Sep 13, 2023 | Featured, Robots
Origami has inspired yet another robot—in this case, one that dynamically changes its shape after dropping from drones in order to glide through the air while collecting environmental data. As detailed via a new study published in Science Robotics,...
Sep 13, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, US Economy
President Biden has been highly attuned to the politics of electric vehicles, helping to enact billions in subsidies to create new manufacturing jobs and going out of his way to court the United Automobile Workers union. But as the union and the big U.S....
Sep 13, 2023 | China, Electric Vehicles, Featured
The European Union is launching an investigation into subsidies that China provides to electric vehicle makers, the head of the bloc’s executive branch said Wednesday, as concern grows that the aid is harming European companies. “Global markets are now...
Sep 6, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Much has been written about the failures of autonomous driving cars in places like San Francisco. But the real success and perhaps even bigger opportunity is in industrial vehicles in ports, factories and airports. In fact, the global heavy-duty autonomous vehicle...
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