Mar 20, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made...
Mar 20, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Later this year the Houston-based Bot Auto plans to launch a full-scale pilot program on another route, setting its sights on the equally busy stretch between Houston and San Antonio—a distance of 200 miles. This means the company’s SAE Level 4 hardware and...
Mar 20, 2025 | Cyber Security
Wiz looks set to become Google’s largest-ever acquisition in a deal worth around $50 billion ($US32 billion), after a smaller bid was reportedly rejected last year. Announced on Wednesday, the all-cash takeover would see Google add Wiz to its growing cloud business,...
Mar 20, 2025 | Auto Industry, Software
A day after the Ford Motor Co. board praised CEO Jim Farley for bringing fresh talent to the company, the Dearborn-based automaker announced another top hire: a former executive from Lululemon clothing company to run Ford’s integrates services division. Michael...
Mar 19, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation, Robots
GM announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference today that it will use Nvidia’s Drive AGX chips in its next-generation passenger vehicles, with a focus on autonomous driving. “In the future, we expect to launch personal autonomous vehicles, or PAVs, with the...
Mar 18, 2025 | China, Hydrogen
Sungrow Hydrogen has emerged as a pivotal player in China’s groundbreaking ‘Liquid Sunshine’ initiative, securing the primary contract for this massive green hydrogen demonstration project. The company is tasked with delivering 16 high-capacity...
Mar 17, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Disabilities
In 2023, the team at Feinstein implanted two sets of computer chips in Thomas’s brain. One set detects signals coming from areas that control movement. The other delivers signals to areas that process touch and pressure. These chips are wired to twin pedestals...
Mar 13, 2025 | Aerial Vehicles, China
A Chinese company is gunning to become the world’s first mass producer of flying cars in 2026, as the country ramps up a drive to develop its “low-altitude economy.” The futuristic vehicle in question — a “land aircraft carrier” in which...
Mar 13, 2025 | Drones, Robots, UK
Robot dogs and drones could be used if a disaster like 1984’s devastating fire at York Minster was to happen at a major heritage site today, Historic England has said. A lightning strike at the minster was believed to have sparked the catastrophic blaze which...
Mar 13, 2025 | Batteries, Charging, Electric Vehicles
Shop around for a new car and you’ll come across an array of acronyms. There’s BEVs (battery electric vehicles), HEVs (hybrid electric vehicles), PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and of course that’s all in contrast to ICE (internal combustion engine) cars....
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