The Innovation Report
Biden Floors Electric Ford Truck as He Pushes Infrastructure Plan
President Joe Biden pushed electric vehicles as part of his infrastructure plan and vision for a greener future from Dearborn, Michigan, on Tuesday and in pitching the ease of electric, gave the public a rare visual of a president behind a steering wheel. While test...
MIT Robots May Help Bring Down the Cost of Biologics
Over the last two years, Multiply Labs has helped pharmaceutical companies produce biologic drugs with its robotic manufacturing platform. The robots can work around the clock, precisely formulating small batches of drugs to help companies run clinical trials more...
Ericsson Advances 5G Workforce Safety for Industry 4.0 with Partners
Industrial sites can be dangerous work environments. Ericsson's latest cellular IoT design has been applied in the Mobilaris' device. Industry 4.0 users can benefit from making complex work safety simple. The Mobilaris 5G-ready device offers proximity triggers and...
Waymo, Cruise Seek Permits to Charge for AV Rides in San Francisco
Alphabet Inc’s Waymo and rival Cruise have applied for permits needed to start charging for rides and delivery using autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, state documents reviewed by Reuters showed, setting the stage for the biggest tests yet of their technology in a...
VW Autonomous Microbus Ready for Roads in 2025
Volkswagen Group plans to offer a highly automated version of the hippie-era microbus it’s reviving as an electric van as the carmaker commercializes self-driving technology along with startup Argo AI. VW is preparing an ID.Buzz with Level 4 autonomy -- meaning the...
New Oklahoma Law Allows Ground-based Drones
Drones aren't just for flying. "Personal delivery devices," or drones that crawl along sidewalks, soon could be used to deliver packages after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law allowing small autonomous vehicles to operate primarily on sidewalks and crosswalks in...
Using Machine Learning and Radar to Detect Drones in Complicated Urban Settings
As drones become more popular and more worrisome from a security standpoint, many projects have sought to engineer systems to spot them. During his time as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program manager, Jeffrey Krolik, professor of electrical...
Violinmaking Meets AI
How to predict the sound produced by a tonewood block once carved into the shape of a violin plate? What is the best shape for the best sound? Artificial intelligence offers answers to these questions. These are the conclusions that researchers of the Musical...
Building Robots to Expand Access to Cell Therapies
Over the last two years, Multiply Labs has helped pharmaceutical companies produce biologic drugs with its robotic manufacturing platform. The robots can work around the clock, precisely formulating small batches of drugs to help companies run clinical trials more...
AI Can Now Detect Sarcasm
Artificial Intelligence is one step closer to being more human-like as it can now detect sarcasm. Funded by the U.S military, a new AI tool has managed to do a task that is tough for computer algorithms to perform in general, identifying the tone and irony of the...
