Dec 15, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Europe, Featured
A Deloitte study surveyed commuters in Germany to determine the most common types of electric transportation used in the country. As it turns out, electric cars aren’t the most popular EVs on the road. That title goes to electric bicycles. And it wasn’t even close....
Dec 15, 2022 | Business, Electric Vehicles
The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc and rival electric vehicle startups that hoped to emulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s success. As interest rates rose and financial markets gyrated, shares in many EV startups deflated. Rivian...
Dec 15, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such...
Dec 15, 2022 | Aeronautics, Featured, Robots
The paradise tree snake belongs to a particularly unique family of serpents capable of “flying” through the air, likely much to the dismay of anyone suffering from ophidiophobia. After launching themselves from tree branches in southeastern Asia,...
Dec 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Food, Robots
Uber Eats sees autonomous vehicles as an increasingly important part of transportation and delivery. Instead of developing AVs itself, it has chosen to bring AV operators into its network, the company said in an email to Restaurant Dive. The company previously...
Dec 15, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
Arcimoto, the maker of the three-wheeled electric Fun Utility Vehicles (FUVs), is teaming up with Faction to develop EVs that can be delivered to a customer’s hotel through a combination of low-level autonomy and tele-assist technology. The tie-up is part of...
Dec 8, 2022 | Charging, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicle drivers in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and Owosso, Michigan, are the first to benefit from General Motors’ Dealer Community Charging Program. These deployments of new level 2 (AC) chargers are the first in a planned rollout of 40,000 new...
Dec 8, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Defense, Military
Kodiak Robotics Inc., a self-driving technology company active in trucking, announced in a blog post this month that the Army and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected it for a 24-month, $49.9 million agreement to adapt its self-driving platform, Kodiak Driver,...
Dec 8, 2022 | Computer Vision, Disabilities, Featured
WeWalk, a U.K.-based startup developing a “smart cane” for visually-impaired people, today announced it has raised £2 million ($2.4 million) in venture funding from several notable institutional and angel investors — this includes Manchester City and German...
Dec 8, 2022 | Detroit, Drones, Featured
A Michigan-based startup known as Stark Drones has already been making strides throughout its launch schedule, including a telemetry internet balloon test that was done in Harbor Beach earlier this year. Focused on various forms of advanced research and technology,...
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