Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual insects. A new study by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder lays out the simple physics-based rules that govern how these ant rafts morph...
Mar 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Entertainment
While the shift toward e-mobility poses major challenges for some traditional automotive manufacturers, it provides a perfect opportunity for companies from outside the sector to enter the industry. In the meantime, it’s no longer just engineering skills and...
Mar 3, 2022 | Defense, Drones
In a video that went viral on Twitter Sunday night, a massive explosion rips through what appears to be a Russian convoy, scoring a direct hit on a surface-to-air missile system. The black-and-white footage, posted to the account of the Ukrainian armed forces, is one...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Space
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the moon Friday while traveling at 5,800 miles per hour. The impact will...
Mar 3, 2022 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
A lab at San Diego State University is filled with bundles of wires, some of them attached to battery cells being tested. Near the center of the room is a black, steel case containing about 300 of those cells and weighing more than a thousand pounds. It’s a car...
Mar 3, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford is creating two new business units, one for electric vehicles and software and another for its traditional internal combustion vehicles. These companies will report their financial results separately from the rest of Ford but they will not be spun off as entirely...
Mar 3, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles
The reorganization was obvious and expected. Both divisions will be headed by the Ford parent company. “Nothing interesting so far. But wait. Things are about to take an interesting turn,” writes TheStreet’s Luc Olinga. The electric vehicle division...
Feb 24, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery, Safety
If we are talking about delivery vehicles, the truth is driverless vehicles make a lot of sense. With no one in the cabin, these machines can be kept to minimal physical dimensions and could be easier and cheaper to operate than traditional delivery trucks and vans....
Feb 24, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles
An artificial intelligence program has beaten the world’s best players in the popular PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo Sport, and in doing so may have contributed towards designing better autonomous vehicles in the real world, according to one expert....
Feb 24, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit
The future of vehicles is autonomous and it’s not only Tesla that is working on self-driving systems. Last Friday, General Motors and its self-driving technology division Cruise petitioned U.S. regulators for the right to engineer a self-driving vehicle without...
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