The Innovation Report
Don’t Underestimate General Motors in Autonomous Driving
Tesla gets a vast majority of the attention in the autonomous driving space, but there are a lot of other companies vying for market share long term. Alphabet's subsidiary Waymo is one of the market leaders, and Niro is already delivering pizzas autonomously in...
Artificial Intelligence Challenges What It Means To Be Creative
When British artist Harold Cohen met his first computer in 1968, he wondered if the machine might help solve a mystery that had long puzzled him: How can we look at a drawing, a few little scribbles, and see a face? Five years later, he devised a robotic artist...
Ibex Investors’ Newest Fund is Betting on a Mobility Revolution
When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility...
Army-Led Hackathon Awards Cash to Autonomous Off Road Vehicle Developers
Self-driving cars are the buzzing news of the future of automobiles, but the Army has a bigger problem – getting tactical vehicles to drive over rough terrain autonomously. To get after that challenge a Pentagon-driven “innovation network” held a hackathon Thursday...
Robot Photos Appear Show Melted Fuel at Fukushima Reactor
A remote-controlled robot has captured images of what appears to be mounds of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Thursday. A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011...
ESA Drone Carries Satellite Navigation Receivers to Collect Data
ESA's Navigation Laboratory has a new recruit: this drone can carry different types of satellite navigation receivers to collect data for follow-on analysis. The NavLab, based at ESA's ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the testing,...
Shared Mobility Company Goto Global Going Public Through Shell Company Merger
GoTo Global, an Israeli mobility company that offers shared micromobility and car-sharing services in Spain, Israel, Malta and Germany, is going public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) through a merger with shell company Nera Tech Media. The merger is expected to...
Welcome to Waabi World, the ‘Ultimate Simulator’ for AVs
Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, promised an “AI-centric approach” to autonomous vehicles when she founded her own company last year, Waabi. Now, she’s ready to deliver on that promise with the announcement of the...
Autonomous Vehicles Legislation Progress
German lawmakers have already approved a new law aiming to bring autonomous vehicles into regular operation in 2022. Signatories to the Vienna Conventions—including Luxembourg and Germany---will be able to incorporate the legislation into their domestic traffic...
How Autonomous Underwater Robots Can Spot Oil Plumes After An Ocean Spill
On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, sank in the Gulf of Mexico and terrified the world. This horrific accident — recorded as the largest oil spill in history — killed 11 workers and released 210 million gallons of...
