Oct 28, 2021 | Charging, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Car rental company Hertz has ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla in a move that some analysts say further validates a growing electric vehicle movement in the U.S. Hertz said Monday that it’s buying the Tesla Model 3 cars by the end of...
Oct 28, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Drones
Expert human drone pilots have proven incredibly adept at piloting UAV through complex courses at high speeds which are still unmatched by autonomous systems. But researchers at the University of Zurich and Intel Labs are collaborating to change that, and...
Oct 28, 2021 | 5G, Space, Telecommunications
Verizon has made a deal to use Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to add capacity to the Verizon cellular network and provide fixed-wireless Internet service in rural parts of the US. Verizon said it will use Amazon satellite connectivity for both...
Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Robots, Transportation
An autonomous boat taxi, years in the making, has now made it to the waterways of Amsterdam. The self-driving boat, dubbed Roboat III, is the creation of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the Senseable City Laboratory,...
Oct 28, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Space
By implementing artificial intelligence techniques similar to those used in autonomous cars, a team from the UNIGE and the UniBE, in partnership with the company Disaitek, has discovered a new method for detecting exoplanets. The majority of exoplanets discovered to...
Oct 28, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare
Transport for NSW has announced it will be taking the next steps in its autonomous vehicle trial by working with driverless technology firm Motional to investigate and develop a plan for using driverless rideshare services. Transport for NSW customer strategy and...
Oct 21, 2021 | Industry 4.0, Manufacturing
Imagine the creation of a greenfield manufacturing facility with no IT infrastructure and after only 18 months, runs on a digital platform with completely paperless production in its core manufacturing processes. If you think this sounds unrealistic, think...
Oct 21, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Extraterrestrial
Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? It’s a question that has been debated for centuries, if not millenia. But it is only recently that we’ve had an actual chance of finding out, with initiatives such as Seti (Search for...
Oct 21, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
She has been described as “a vision of the future” who is every bit as good as other abstract artists today, but Ai-Da – the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist – hit a temporary snag before her latest exhibition when Egyptian security forces detained her at...
Oct 21, 2021 | Drones, Featured
An unprecedented drone operation is being prepared to rescue four dogs stranded for weeks between rivers of red-hot lava streaming from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. The emaciated dogs are stranded in two empty water tanks in the town of...
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