Mar 18, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, will acquire self-driving startup Voyage in another major autonomous vehicle merger. The announcement came less than a week after news first surfaced that the two companies were in talks about an acquisition. The...
Mar 18, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Telecommunications
BlackBerry was issued a patent for “methods and systems for autonomous vehicle refueling.” The Waterloo, Ontario-based technology company applied for the patent on Aug. 23, 2017, and it covers a signaling system for autonomous vehicles. The patent was granted through...
Mar 18, 2021 | Drones, Entertainment
This year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations were muted by the ongoing pandemic, though Intel was allowed to fly a fleet of 500 drones over Ireland’s capital city for a dazzling light show that it later shared on YouTube. “The film presents a heartfelt, uplifting...
Mar 18, 2021 | Drones, Safety
The skies above the Israeli town of Hadera were abuzz with delivery drones on Wednesday as national authorities tested a central control room for safely coordinating the small pilotless aircraft with each other as well as with planes and helicopters. “It is a...
Mar 18, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare
Anemia, a condition characterized by the lack of healthy red blood cells in the body, is common in patients with chronic kidney disease who need to undergo routine hemodialysis (a process that helps to “clean” the blood when the kidneys don’t...
Mar 18, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence
Sonoma County officials say they will add artificial intelligence technology to help fight wildfires with a 24-7 monitor to track fire outbreaks. The technology will be added to the county’s network of wildfire detection cameras that monitor California’s...
Mar 11, 2021 | Healthcare, Manufacturing, Robots
Flying robots are among the most challenging domains of robotics, but the achievement of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) assistant professor Kevin Yufeng Chen and team is exciting news. The researchers have built a new generation of tiny, agile drones,...
Mar 11, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Retail, Robots
The legal rights of robots have expanded, at least in Pennsylvania. There, autonomous delivery drones will be allowed to maneuver on sidewalks and paths as well as roadways and will now technically be considered”pedestrians.” It’s the latest change...
Mar 11, 2021 | Batteries, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
General Motors has signed a deal with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinout for joint development of next-generation electric vehicle batteries that are expected to cut the cost of the technology by 60%. The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems,...
Mar 11, 2021 | Agriculture, Drones
Dutch cress grower Rob Baan has enlisted high-tech helpers to tackle a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones seek and destroy moths that produce caterpillars that can chew up his crops. “I have unique products where you don’t get certification to spray chemicals...
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