The Innovation Report
GM Cruise Takes First Fares for Paid Driverless Taxi in San Francisco
GM’s autonomous driving division, Cruise, has begun its paid driverless taxi service in San Francisco and officially took its first fares last night. Cruise has been operating a free driverless taxi service in the area since earlier this year (and got pulled over...
Can Wall Crawling Robots Help Solve Our Infrastructure Problems?
Collapsing bridges, crumbling aqueducts, and corroding highways: Infrastructure is big (and increasingly urgent) news in the U.S. A new class of robots and inspection drones from a variety of vendors are beginning to scale structures and perform acrobatic...
New Method Helps Self-Driving Cars Create ‘Memories’
A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a new method enabling autonomous vehicles to create “memories” of previous experiences, which can then be used in future navigation. This will be especially useful when these self-driving cars can’t rely on...
Researchers to Use AI to Assess Livestock Mobility, Including Horses
University of Florida scientists want to assess livestock mobility faster and more accurately, ultimately helping farm animal health and production. To do so, they’ll use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze high-definition video of the animals as they move....
Einride Gets NHTSA Approval to Operate Autonomous Electric Trucks on US Roads
Autonomous EV freight company Einride has received approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate its Autonomous Electric Transport (AET) trucks on public roads in the US. These Pod trucks will begin driving under a...
Amazon to Launch Drone Delivery; Area Citizens Not Happy
Amazon has long talked about its desire to deliver packages via drone, but citizens of Lockeford, Calif., where the company will begin testing the service for the first time, say they were caught by surprise by news the sky would be buzzing with robotic...
Sesame Solar: World’s First 100% Renewable Mobile Nanogrids
In an emergency, one person can set up this nanogrid and start generating power in 15 minutes, with minimal training. In other words, it’s almost as easy as saying “open sesame,” or in this case, using a new device launched today by Sesame Solar, based in...
The Missing Link in Industry 4.0’s Connectivity Chain
Industry 4.0 has been well and truly explosive for the last decade, and its growth doesn't seem to be stopping. The Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) predicts that, by 2025, there will be more than 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT)...
How Autonomous Mobility and Smart Cities are Defining the Future of Mobility
The first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles was installed by Henry Ford on Dec. 1, 1913. This innovation enabled cars to be built in a fraction of the amount of time it previously took—reducing it from 12 hours to one hour and 33 minutes....
Could I Save Money Driving an EV?
There are nearly half a million electric cars in the UK, and rising fuel prices have prompted more people to consider making the switch. The government is banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned....
