The Innovation Report
Victoria’s Electric Vehicle Tax Faces High Court Challenge
Two electric vehicle drivers have launched a high court challenge to Victoria’s electric vehicle tax, arguing the levy is unconstitutional. The challenge was filed on Thursday by Equity Generation Lawyers, the legal firm that represented eight teenagers in a federal...
The Lucid Air is the First EV with a 520-mile EPA-rated Range
Lucid Motors’ Air Dream Edition has received an Environmental Protection Agency-rated range of 520 miles, making it the longest-range EV ever rated by the agency. The EPA rating certifies Lucid’s claim from over a year ago that its forthcoming electric...
Ford and Argo AI Will Deliver Your Walmart Order in an AV
Citizens of Austin, Miami and Washington, DC, may receive their next Walmart order from an autonomous car. On Wednesday, Ford and its self-driving technology partner Argo AI announced a new last-mile delivery service with Walmart. The three companies will launch the...
Al Gore’s Climate TRACE Tracking Group Finds Vast Undercounts of Emissions
A high-tech independent effort to track greenhouse gas emissions from every country, industrial facility and power plant announced its first results on Monday. Climate TRACE utilizes satellite data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine...
NASA Lab Examines Use of Autonomous Cars and How Their Safety is Affected by Sleepiness
With vehicles today being only partially automated, the requirement for the human driver to stay alert, monitor the road, and take over at a moment's notice leaves drivers more susceptible to sleepiness -- especially when they're sleep deprived, according to a NASA...
Unleash the Robots and Save the Economy
Before the pandemic, headline-grabbing advances in artificial intelligence and robotics — such as gaming champ AlphaGo becoming the first computer program to beat a human professional player at the board game Go, and those cool/scary videos of...
Astronauts in Space to Resurrect AI Robot Friend Called CIMON
An AI-powered robot with a digital face is ready for a new mission on the International Space Station. The robot, called CIMON-2 (it's short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) worked alongside two European astronauts on past missions to the...
Energy Dept: 40 Percent Solar Feasible by 2035
The Energy Department says solar energy can produce up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase of current solar output that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment. In a report released...
An Understaffed Dallas Restaurant is Renting Robots
A Latin American restaurant in Texas is renting robots for $15 a day each to serve guests as it struggles to find staff, CNN first reported on Wednesday. Espartaco Borga, owner of La Duni in Dallas, told CNN the robots welcome guests and take food...
AI Could Help Diagnose Lung Cancer a Year Earlier
An artificial intelligence (AI) program can spot signs of lung cancer on CT scans a year before they can be diagnosed with existing methods, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. Lung cancer is the most...
