Jun 30, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise, has begun its paid driverless taxi service in San Francisco and officially took its first fares last night. Cruise has been operating a free driverless taxi service in the area since earlier this year (and got pulled over...
Jun 23, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, Robots
Collapsing bridges, crumbling aqueducts, and corroding highways: Infrastructure is big (and increasingly urgent) news in the U.S. A new class of robots and inspection drones from a variety of vendors are beginning to scale structures and perform acrobatic...
Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Neural Networks, Weather
A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a new method enabling autonomous vehicles to create “memories” of previous experiences, which can then be used in future navigation. This will be especially useful when these self-driving cars can’t rely on...
Jun 23, 2022 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Mobility
University of Florida scientists want to assess livestock mobility faster and more accurately, ultimately helping farm animal health and production. To do so, they’ll use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze high-definition video of the animals as they move....
Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Trucks
Autonomous EV freight company Einride has received approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate its Autonomous Electric Transport (AET) trucks on public roads in the US. These Pod trucks will begin driving under a...
Jun 23, 2022 | Delivery, Drones
Amazon has long talked about its desire to deliver packages via drone, but citizens of Lockeford, Calif., where the company will begin testing the service for the first time, say they were caught by surprise by news the sky would be buzzing with robotic...
Jun 23, 2022 | Charging, Featured, Solar
In an emergency, one person can set up this nanogrid and start generating power in 15 minutes, with minimal training. In other words, it’s almost as easy as saying “open sesame,” or in this case, using a new device launched today by Sesame Solar, based in...
Jun 23, 2022 | Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 has been well and truly explosive for the last decade, and its growth doesn’t seem to be stopping. The Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) predicts that, by 2025, there will be more than 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT)...
Jun 23, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility, Smart Cities
The first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles was installed by Henry Ford on Dec. 1, 1913. This innovation enabled cars to be built in a fraction of the amount of time it previously took—reducing it from 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes....
Jun 23, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Energy
There are nearly half a million electric cars in the UK, and rising fuel prices have prompted more people to consider making the switch. The government is banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned....
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