The Innovation Report
How Smart Vehicles Will Interact with Smart Cities
While smart cities will encompass a variety of internet of things (IoT) connected devices, machines and infrastructure, a key aspect will be integrating smart vehicles into the overall ecosystem. Smart vehicles will involve integration of communication, mapping,...
USC Cancer Research Center Plans Private 5G Network
Researchers, doctors and patients at the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC will have a new tool for collaboration this summer—a private 5G+ and internet of things network. Data collected via the network will be used to make decisions...
Blade Becomes First Publicly Traded Urban Air Mobility Company
Blade is a technology-powered urban air mobility platform committed to reducing travel friction by providing cost-effective air transportation alternatives to some of the most congested ground routes in the U.S. and abroad. Today, the Company predominantly uses...
With an Eye On Russia, EU Opens ‘Military Mobility’ Project to NATO Allies
The European Union has approved the participation of NATO members the United States, Canada, and Norway in a project aimed at speeding up the movement of troops and military equipment around Europe.The May 6 decision marks the first time the EU has opened up an...
White House Launches AI Website
The White House has launched a new website, AI.gov, to make artificial intelligence research more accessible across the nation, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The U.S. once led significantly in the global artificial intelligence race, but now risks being...
Making Skin for Robots is Hard — Success Could Bring Benefits for Humans
To recreate a human in robot form is no small piece of work. Making a human brain? Researchers have already started modelling synapses and neurons in software and hardware. A robot that can move like a human? Researchers are already building artificial...
Grocery Chain to Start Delivering Orders with Drones
Welcome to the future, courtesy of an expansion of Kroger delivery options that will soon include packages dropped off via drone. Kroger has announced that this spring, it will pilot a drone delivery program that calls for using drones to ferry products from a test...
Drones Show California’s Great White Sharks are Closer — and More Common — Than You Think
Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash. Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to...
Rental Companies Buy Up Used Cars as Chip Crisis Get Worse
The semiconductor shortage has slashed vehicle production so much that rental-car companies can’t get the new cars they need, so they have resorted to buying used vehicles at auction. This is uncharted territory for the likes of Hertz Global Holdings Inc. and...
The Emergence of Vehicle Computing
In Detroit, Wayne State University computer scientists Weisong Shi and Sidi Lu, have published a paper introducing a vision of vehicle computing in the autonomous driving era and highlighting the CAV as the perfect computation platform. The article’s assertions are...
