Dec 11, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Japan
A world-first passenger ferry with advanced autonomous navigation has been unveiled in Japan, an Asian non-profit which is involved in a project to commercialise automated vessels announced on Thursday. The Olympia Dream Seto ferry transports passengers between the...
Dec 11, 2025 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Satellites
Will Tesla vehicles one day offer built-in internet access to SpaceX’s Starlink? A new patent suggests the automaker is working on a satellite integration for its EVs. The company has submitted a patent application in the US for an outer panel car roof “that...
Dec 11, 2025 | Hydrogen, Space
German Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel has penned a letter urging the government of Chile to halt the development of a green hydrogen plant in the vicinity of one of the world’s top astronomical observatories. In the letter, Genzel and 30...
Dec 11, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Robotaxis
The rapid succession of robotaxi deployments from companies like Waymo and Zoox have people in the industry, once again, dreaming about how autonomous vehicles might change our daily lives. That includes driverless taxi rides, sure, but also headier ideas like sending...
Dec 11, 2025 | Accessibility, Autonomous Vehicles, Disabilities, Featured
Like many working to advance driver assistance systems, Doug Wellman has a variety of personal reasons in addition to professional ones on why he wants to get it right. Wellman, the man responsible for Stellantis’ system, helped construct each tier of the current...
Dec 11, 2025 | Automation, Supply Chain
For a decade, supply chain leaders have raced to automate processes by deploying robots, building digital twins, and designing optimized data-driven, inventory-management policies. This wave of automation has enabled faster operations, reduced errors, and led to...
Dec 11, 2025 | Agriculture, Robots
In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in clusters, requiring robots to pick the ripe ones while leaving the...
Dec 11, 2025 | AI Stories, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots
A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge of plodding, and arm movements bordered on sluggish and...
Dec 10, 2025 | AI Stories, Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has steadily expanded its influence in law enforcement, moving from experimental tools to systems that are actively reshaping police work. The recent collaboration between Axon, the U.S. company known for Tasers and body cameras, and the...
Dec 9, 2025 | AI Stories, Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Machine Learning
With so much focus on AI data analytics in manufacturing, ranging for executive dashboards to predictive maintenance, you may not be aware of how extensive the reach of AI into industry has become. Various kinds of AI are already at work enhancing motion control...
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