The Innovation Report
Nuro’s Self-driving Robot Will Deliver Domino’s Pizza
Domino’s Pizza will start delivering pizzas via Nuro driverless cars in Houston this week as part of a pilot program, the company announced Monday. The company says “select customers” in Houston who make a prepaid delivery order from its store in the Woodland Heights...
Every New Car and Truck in U.S. Can Be Electric by 2035
California was the first state to announce plans to ban new fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2035. Massachusetts followed. But a new report says that it’s feasible for the entire country to make the shift to 100% electric car and truck sales by the same year, something...
Study: Ford’s First VW-platform EV is Small SUV
Vehicle development takes a pretty long time, which is why it came as no surprise when we didn't really hear much after Volkswagen and Ford announced a platform-sharing partnership that would see the American automaker using the German company's MEB scalable...
Teaching Diversity and Inclusion to the Billions of Intelligent Systems Making Autonomous Decisions
The idea that diversity and inclusion should be core drivers of the new economy and the emerging global society are mostly understood at a human level. The more people who are part of one system, being offered the same opportunities regardless of their gender, race,...
Cook: Apple and AVs an Ideal Match
Apple chief Tim Cook portrayed self-driving cars as an ideal match for the technology giant during an interview released Monday by the New York Times. Talk of an autonomous vehicle bearing the Apple brand has long been among rumours swirling around the iPhone...
UK EV Sales Surge Despite Lockdown
UK electric and hybrid car sales hit record levels in March, traditionally the biggest month of the year for motor dealers, as demand for greener vehicles surged despite overall trade remaining lower than before the pandemic. Sales of battery electric cars and plug-in...
Sidewalk Robots Are On The Way
Automated grocery delivery is a retail technology that suddenly found itself with a more robust use case as the novel coronavirus pandemic made customers prioritize contact-free transactions in the interest of staying healthy. Albertsons, for example, is working on a...
AI to Explore Biomolecular World
EPFL scientists have developed AI-powered nanosensors that let researchers track various kinds of biological molecules without disturbing them. The tiny world of biomolecules is rich in fascinating interactions between a plethora of different agents such as intricate...
Drones Show Polar Bears Forced to Eat Eggs as Climate Change Shrinks Arctic Hunting Grounds
Hungry polar bears are increasingly foraging on seabird eggs as climate change shrinks their Arctic hunting grounds, but research published Wednesday on the phenomenon highlights the struggle these apex predators have to adapt to their rapidly changing environment....
The Robots Are Coming … to Mow Your Lawn
Even before last winter’s snow had fully melted, the roar of leaf blowers began to punctuate the quiet of many towns, renewing noise battles that had only intensified as more people worked from home. Leaf blowers are not just loud. The small gas-power machines,...
