Mar 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Volvo had already announced plans to convert its entire lineup into electric vehicles or hybrids. But this decision goes a step further, eliminating hybrids, which use more fuel-efficient gasoline powertrains than traditional internal combustion engines. General...
Mar 4, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Despite what some prognosticators and auto manufacturers say, self-driving cars aren’t a thing. But they are getting closer to reality every year. Pushing forward to this autonomous future, on Thursday, Honda announced that in Japan it will offer a...
Mar 4, 2021 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
Doctors take a microscopic craft loaded with cancer-killing chemicals, inject it into the human body, and drive it to a malignant tumor to deliver its payload before making a quick exit. For most of the 55 years since “Fantastic Voyage” shrank Raquel Welch...
Feb 25, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured, Robots
Researchers at Wayne State University have released a new version of the HydraOne Autonomous Mobile Robot. Developed as a research and education platform for connected and autonomous driving, the robot facilitates the work of researchers focused on such projects as...
Feb 25, 2021 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric-car maker Fisker said it will work with Apple supplier Foxconn to produce more than 250,000 vehicles a year beginning in late 2023, sending its shares up 18%. The deal, codenamed “Project PEAR” (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution),...
Feb 25, 2021 | Defense, Drones, Featured
The US military has invested in a prototype energy beam weapon designed to zap drones in the sky. This week, the US Air Force said the prototype, dubbed the Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR), is a “directed energy” weapon...
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