The Innovation Report
Earth’s Core May Hide Dozens Of Oceans Of Hydrogen
The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough hydrogen to form dozens of oceans of water may have been...
Training Army Leaders To Integrate Robotic And Autonomous Systems In Combat
The U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) at Fort Benning launched the first pilot of the Robotic Autonomous Systems Leader Tactics Course (RASLT) yesterday as part of Army-wide Transforming in Contact (TiC) initiatives. The course will prepare Army leaders...
Astemo Engineering Careers Tour Meets Kaseeb Khan
The Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today team spent the day on campus at Detroit’s Wayne State University just before winter break. During our visit, John Petty and Cindy Polakowski met with Kaseeb Kahn, President of the American Society of Mechanical...
Artificial intelligence Gave Me My Voice Back
A musician who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has returned to the stage after artificial intelligence (AI) gave him his voice back. Patrick Darling, 32, from Bristol, has been a singer and composer since the age of 14 but was diagnosed with the...
Can Map Of 1M Routes Around Earth Help Prevent Satellite Collisions?
Space is getting crowded — nowadays, over 45,000 human-made objects orbit Earth. A portion of that figure is indeed represented by the thousands of satellites humans use for internet, GPS and other communications, but it also takes into account space junk from...
What Is Being Done To Stop The Great Salt Lake From Shrinking?
The shores of the Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, have been receding for several decades, but Utah Gov. Spencer Cox seems determined to fill it back up. In 1986, the state’s iconic lake covered about 2,300 square miles, and today...
First Patients Have Surgery Using Robot At Hospital
The first patients have had surgery using a multi-million-pound robot at a hospital in Kent. At the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate, Mandy Lee was the first person to have a robotic procedure using the system, named Hugo. Lee, who was...
Drone Cameras Are All The Buzz At 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics have already delivered incredible feats of athleticism and the raw emotions that help this global sporting competition transcend sports and become part of the human condition. It's the new camera angles showing these Olympic moments, however,...
Smart Mobility Today: 9 February 2026
I am always amazed at the energy and intelligence I hear in the voices of the engineering students that I meet on our Engineering Careers Tour. At Michigan State University, U of M Dearborn, and recently at Wayne State University, our team has met the young people who...
Inside Winter Olympics Games 2026: Smart Replays, Drones, High-Tech Torches And More
The 2026 Winter Olympics Games are all set to excite fans officially kicking off this Friday and are being hailed as the most tech-integrated Games in history. From first-person view drones racing alongside the athletes to AI-powered 360-degree replays that freeze...
