Mar 10, 2022 | Aging, Featured, Robots
Nationwide wants to know if a new generation of personal robots can help people stay at home as they age or face health issues. The Columbus insurance and financial services company has struck a partnership with robotics company Labrador Systems, which is developing...
Mar 10, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Smart Manufacturing
Most people associate factory automation with large robotic machines, such as those that weld automobile chassis on assembly lines. But as prices drop and technology improves, robots are being deployed for smaller and more varied tasks, and they are getting better at...
Mar 10, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Smart Cities
While there’s been huge investment in developing vehicular autonomous driving technology, there’s been little by cities in the infrastructure necessary for vehicles to communicate with each other (vehicle-to-vehicle), or their surroundings (vehicle-to-vehicle...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual insects. A new study by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder lays out the simple physics-based rules that govern how these ant rafts morph...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Space
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the moon Friday while traveling at 5,800 miles per hour. The impact will...
Mar 3, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford is creating two new business units, one for electric vehicles and software and another for its traditional internal combustion vehicles. These companies will report their financial results separately from the rest of Ford but they will not be spun off as entirely...
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