The Innovation Report
Q&A: Engineering Skills To Get A Job In The ‘New Industrial Revolution’
If you want to learn how to get a job as an engineer on the modern manufacturing floor overseeing improvements and collaborating with both people and robots, it helps to ask an expert for her advice. The UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science consulted with...
This Autonomous Taxi Boat Could Turn Urban Rivers Into Roads
Urban waterways like rivers and canals have gone from essential travel and trading corridors to urban afterthoughts. They’re used by freighters or limited ferry services, but are otherwise mostly forgotten and largely untouched by the millions who live on their...
Electric Bike-Car Just May Be Back From The Dead
The world of micromobility has long been a wild west of innovative designs, spanning everything from e-bikes and e-scooters to self-balancing electric unicycles and more. The proliferation of small, inexpensive electric motors and batteries has allowed companies to...
Ola Electric Suspends India Car Project To Focus On Scooters, Bikes
Ola's founder Bhavish Aggarwal laid out plans in 2022 to launch an electric sports car with an all-glass roof in two years that could reach 100 km per hour within four seconds. Aggarwal reiterated those plans as recently as Sept. 2023 in an interview with Forbes, but...
Massport Shelves Decision On Charging Travelers To Charge EVs
Should Massport start charging for charging? That question seemed to vex the port authority’s board at its monthly meeting on Thursday. Joel Barrera, Massport’s director of strategic and business planning, presented a proposal to end the free charging that Massport...
New Learning-Based Method Trains Robots To Reliably Pick Up And Place Objects
Most robotic systems developed to date can either tackle a specific task with high precision or complete a range of simpler tasks with low precision. For instance, some industrial robots can complete specific manufacturing tasks very well but cannot easily adapt to...
Startup Snags $12M To Develop 1st Off-Earth Energy Grid
Space-based solar power may not remain a mere sci-fi dream for much longer. Florida startup Star Catcher Industries just scored $12.25 million in seed funding to develop its planned constellation of power-beaming satellites in low Earth...
How Much Cheaper Is EV Charging V Gasoline?
It's hard not to notice those vanity license plates like "GASLOL" on EVs while driving around. Why so braggy? Maybe EV drivers know something we don't? We combed through popular social media platforms and found that the cost of EV charging versus gasoline is a...
PA Senators Introduce Bill To Improve Tech Accessibility For People With Disabilities
U.S. Senators, including Bob Casey and John Fetterman, have introduced a bill to make federal technology more accessible for people with disabilities. The bill, dubbed Section 508 Refresh Act, would require federal agencies to take a series of steps to ensure...
Musk Says Tesla To Use Humanoid Robots Next Year
Tesla boss Elon Musk says the electric car maker will start producing and using humanoid robots from next year. In a social media post, Mr Musk said the robots will first be used by Tesla, which will start making them to sell in 2026. The announcement came as the...
