The Innovation Report
How To 3D Print Fully-Formed Robots
3D printers are capable of producing complex shapes, but making functioning objects from multiple materials in a single print-run has proved challenging. To overcome this, a team has combined inkjet printing with an error-correction system guided by machine vision, to...
Hydrogen Fuel Gaining Traction With Truckers
Jim Gillis is making a big bet on hydrogen-powered big rigs. Gillis, president of the Pacific region for Collierville, Tenn.-based IMC, will take delivery in the coming weeks of his first hydrogen electric fuel-cell Nikola trucks long before the technology is proven...
Fact Check: Diesel Charger Works With Solar
An Oct. 25 Instagram video (link) shows an Australian electric vehicle charging station that includes a large blue diesel generator. “Look! It’s an electric charger for an electric car, and right there that is a diesel-powered generator to run your electric charging...
Could Solid-State Batteries Supercharge EVs?
In September, car manufacturer Toyota published a battery technology roadmap, outlining their research focus and their goals for producing a diverse, all-electric fleet in the next decade. This alone is not that surprising – the electrification of the automotive...
Vatican In Deal With VW For All-Electric Car Fleet By 2030
The Vatican on Wednesday signed an agreement with German carmaker Volkswagen to replace the city-state's entire car fleet with electric vehicles by 2030. The governor's office of the world's smallest state gave no financial details of the deal in a statement but said...
Cruise Taking All Vehicles Off Public Roads Amid Expanded Safety Probe
Cruise, General Motors' embattled driverless car unit, said Tuesday it will pause all public road operations — both supervised and manual — in an expansion of last month's pause of driverless operations. "This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust...
Autonomous Trucks Are Coming To A Road Near You: The Kiplinger Letter
Autonomous trucks are slowly hitting the road, mostly on interstates in Texas and the Southwest, with a human driver on board, standing by, or traveling in platoons behind a lead truck driven by a person. Maersk is running Kodiak Robotics trucks between warehouses in...
GE Joins Green Hydrogen Power Plant Project
GE Vernova is in partnership to develop a green-hydrogen peaking power supply for a Duke Energy power plant in Florida, adapting a GE gas turbine to operate with flexible fuel sources, including 100% green hydrogen. GE Vernova is joining Duke Energy in its development...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Preps for Solar Conjunction
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just made its 65th and 66th Red Planet flights, two short hops that helped prep the chopper for a coming stretch in which it will be cut off from ground control. Flight 65 occurred on Nov. 2. The 4-pound (1.8...
Amazon Drone Delivery Great Publicity; Deeply Flawed, Highly Impractical
Amazon launched their delivery programme years ago in two US cities, College Station, Texas and Lockeford, California amid a lot of fanfare. However, since then, Amazon Prime Air has proven to be impractical. At times, all it can deliver is a can of soup. Amazon...
