Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Robots
Cornell University researchers are building soft robots with “robot blood” that is both hydraulic fluid that provides motive force and at the same time a battery that stores and delivers energy required to power the robots. The resulting body configurations are ideal...
Jan 30, 2025 | Batteries, Featured
Earlier this week, scientists from both institutions announced the creation of a diamond battery that leverages the decaying power of isotope carbon-14—the same isotope used in carbon dating. This isotope is useful for archaeologists because its half-life...
Jan 30, 2025 | Climate, Energy, Featured, Hydrogen
In a recent study published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Washington State University Professor Bin Yang and colleagues demonstrated that their lignin-based jet fuel can chemically bind hydrogen in a stable liquid form. This...
Jan 29, 2025 | Satellites, Space
San Francisco-based Planet announced today (Jan. 29) that it has signed a $230 million contract with an unnamed commercial partner in the Asia-Pacific region to build and deliver a fleet of its new, sharp-eyed Pelican satellites. “This agreement...
Jan 28, 2025 | Electric Vehicles, Europe
Norway is set to become the first country in the world to effectively erase gasoline and diesel cars from its new car market. Its electric vehicle (EV) sales have increased from less than 1% of total auto sales in 2010 to a whopping 88.9% last year —...
Jan 27, 2025 | Smart Mobility Today
There is so much to be amazed about in our world. If you’re a science fiction fan, your world has been amazing for years. Interstellar travel, power sources that do not yet exist, medical procedures that return mobility and sight with the wave of a futuristic...
Jan 24, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
Artificial Intelligence is transforming physical operations, hastening the demise of legacy telematics systems as tech-savvy fleets pull the plug on outdated systems and processes in favor of data-driven platforms. During this last year, we’ve seen an unprecedented...
Jan 23, 2025 | Batteries, Sustainability
California sells more electric cars than any other state, many of which in Southern California have turned into rubble during the recent Los Angeles wildfires. And while lithium-ion batteries present in EVs do not burst into flames often, when they do they produce...
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