The Innovation Report
Goodyear Focused on Lunar Mobility
"NASA's Artemis program to live and work on the Moon has a clear need for lunar surface transportation that we intend to meet with vehicles driven by astronauts or operated autonomously without crew," said Kirk Shireman, vice president of Lunar Exploration...
Machine Learning Tracking COVID Deaths Faster and More Accurately
In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death in the US. This May, the country passed the grim milestone of 1 million known COVID deaths. Although fewer people are dying from the virus now than during the height of the Omicron surge...
Scientists Struggle to Collaborate across Borders, Complicating Climate Change Work
The United Nations and many researchers have emphasized the critical role international collaborative science plays in solving global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics. The rise of non-Western countries as science...
U.S., Japanese Insurers Back AV Firm May Mobility
U.S. auto insurer State Farm and Japanese insurance company Tokio Marine (8766.T) have joined in a $111 million funding round for autonomous vehicle technology startup May Mobility, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company said on Tuesday. The funding will allow...
Wing Working on Larger Drones Handling Heavier Deliveries
Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Google parent Alphabet, unveiled a series of new prototype aircraft designed to handle a variety of payloads. The company said the new drones will share the same underlying components with the aircraft currently in use...
New E-Skin Lets Robots ‘See’ More Color Than Human Vision
One day, all robots might be able to see in technicolor—but not through their eyes. Instead, they’ll be able to see through their skin. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, a team of researchers at the...
Digital Twins in Cybersecurity: Reducing Industry 4.0 Risks
Large-scale digital transformation initiatives over the last decade mean that cyber-physical systems are now intertwined with many manufacturing and industrial processes. These intelligent systems use computing, networking and sensors to help monitor, control and...
GM, Partners to Build 500 EV Charging Stations
A major automaker, large truck stop chain and an electric vehicle charging company are proposing a network that would put charging plugs at 50-mile intervals along U.S. highways. General Motors, Pilot Travel Centers and EVgo said Thursday they will build 2,000...
Indy Autonomous Challenge will Return to CES 2023 with Faster Vehicles
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) today announced that after making history at CES 2022 with the world’s first-ever, head-to-head autonomous racecar competition, that the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) will return to CES...
Mind-Blowing Photos from Webb Space Telescope: What They Can Tell Us
Webb’s cameras can look deep into space and far into the past. Webb has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant—which will be the farthest we’ve ever seen into space. This image of the galactic cluster known as SMACS 0723 contains thousands of galaxies,...
