The Innovation Report
Supermarket Will Deliver Across London In ‘Britain’s Biggest Autonomous Home Delivery Trial’
Asda customers will from today be taking delivery of groceries from vehicles that can drive themselves as the supermarket has started a trial using autonomous cars. The retailer claims the move is Britain's biggest autonomous grocery home delivery trial to...
EV Tax Credits In This State Are So Popular, The Plan Ran Out Of Money
An electric-vehicle tax program is paused after it proved so popular that all funding earmarked for the plan has been disbursed. Baby, we were born to run, but certain tramps like us won't be getting any more electric vehicle tax credits -- at least not for awhile....
Artificial Intelligence Being Used In Schools, Museums To Spot Gun Threats
As gun violence surges across the United States, there is a potential new hi-tech line of defense to help protect schools and other public places from future mass shootings. Miami's Frost Museum of Science is using artificial intelligence to try to keep visitors safe....
Loughborough Academics Develop Robots To Care For Elderly
Robots that look after frail elderly people in their homes are being developed by academics. The I'M-ACTIVE project is being worked on by experts at Loughborough University, in Leicestershire. The work looks at ways to install sensors to monitor vulnerable people,...
Robots In The Big Apple: Robo-Trash Cans Patrolling New York Plaza Make Friends, Creep Out Some
Robots aren't just lining up to do dangerous jobs such as helping police, fighting fires or assisting in disaster zones. They may wind up taking out the trash, too. Researchers at Cornell University recently deployed a pair of robotic trash cans in New York...
Dead Birds Are Flying Again — This Time, As Drones
On a New Mexico college campus, there’s a large field that many birds fly over. Lately, some of those birds have been dead. Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is using drone technology to lift dead birds...
Electric Vehicle Sales In Australia Overtake Petrol-Driven Cars In Medium Category For First Time
Electric vehicle sales in Australia have overtaken petrol-driven vehicles in the medium-sized car category for the first time on record, according to the peak motoring body. The announcement on Thursday follows Labor’s release of its EV policy backing new fuel...
More Americans Are Snapping Up Used EVs
New electric cars are grabbing all the headlines, but Americans buy far more used cars than new cars. When will sales of used electric vehicles pick up? They already have. A new analysis from Kelley Blue Book parent company Cox Automotive shows that used EV sales grew...
NASA’s Snake-Like Robot Concept Could Search For Life On Saturn’s Moon
It is time to move over the traditional wheeled or legged robots. NASA has developed a robotic concept that sounds straight out of a science-fiction and has the potential to take space exploration to the next level. The US space agency has been working on...
3D-Printed Robot Hand Senses How To Grasp Objects
Scientists have designed a 3D-printed robotic hand that can grasp and hold objects using the correct amount force. It was created by a team at the University of Cambridge who fitted 16 sensors to the device that enabled it to "sense" what it was touching. Dr Thomas...
