The Innovation Report
How AVs Could Help People With Disabilities
Myrna Peterson predicts self-driving vehicles will be a ticket out of isolation and loneliness for people like her, who live outside big cities and have disabilities that prevent them from driving. Peterson, who has quadriplegia, is an enthusiastic participant in an...
World’s First Commercial Electric Air Taxi Flight
The Chinese manufacturer EHang made commercial demonstration flights in two cities, marking the first passenger-carrying eVTOL trips. The hype around electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis is growing, even in non-aviation circles. Chinese manufacturer...
GM Offers $7,500 Incentive For EVs Losing US Tax Credit
General Motors said on Wednesday it is offering incentives of $7,500 on its electric vehicles that earlier this week lost a U.S. government tax credit, while Ford Motor said it is hiking the prices of some of its F-150 EVs by $10,000. The Treasury issued guidelines in...
EV Models Eligible For $7,500 Tax Credit Cut To 13
The number of electric vehicle models eligible for a consumer tax credit of as much as $7,500 fell sharply as new rules from the Biden administration kicked in on Jan. 1. Narrower criteria reduced the number of qualifying models to 13 from about two dozen, according...
Tesla Sold 1.8 Million Electric Vehicles In 2023
Tesla found new homes for 1.8 million electric vehicles last year, it revealed on Tuesday afternoon. That will no doubt please CEO Elon Musk—it means the company has met its sales volume goal given to investors when it released its 2022 financial results at the end of...
Autonomous Delivery Startup Nuro Taps Simulation Company Foretellix
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut R&D costs while still pushing the technology forward. The partnership, which the...
Smart City Tech Focuses On Efficiency, Safety, Privacy
Tools like smart streetlights help cities understand what's going on at the ground level, but as solutions advance, officials say they should be easy to stand up and keep public privacy top of mind. Ease of deployment may be one area where the urban tech landscape is...
AI For Smart Cities: It Could Be A Climate-Changer
Let's talk about one way that AI can help in the struggle against climate change… First of all, think about where people are mostly living across the world. They're living in cities. Now, sometimes we get misconceptions about relative carbon footprints. For example,...
Robots Secure Future Of Fourth-Generation Dairy Farm In Creston
At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska to implement the technology. “When we built the barn in 2018, we really were looking to...
World’s First Reconstructive Surgery On The Central Lymphatic System Using A Microsurgery Robot
Because it was not possible to remove a hard-to-reach bulge in the central lymphatic system, a team of doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) created a new drain to relieve the patient's agonizing lymph...
