The Innovation Report
Sotheby’s To Auction Painting By Humanoid Robot In A Futuristic First
In a first for Sotheby’s, the famed auction house will sell a painting made by a humanoid robot — and it’s expected to fetch up to a whopping $180,000. The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing...
Next-Gen 6G Cellular Networks May Be 9,000 Times Faster Than 5G
New reports indicate that next-generation wireless networks could achieve speeds of up to 938 gigabits per second, roughly 9,000 times the speed of current 5G network connections. These next-gen 6G networks are still a long way off, but it would...
Mystery Drones Flew Over US Base
New details are emerging about drones that flew over U.S. military bases last year, though there is still no explanation for where they came from. Air Force officials confirmed several drones flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in December of 2023,...
Nuclear Rockets Could Travel To Mars In Half The Time
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and...
GM To Invest $625 Million In Joint Venture To Mine EV Battery Raw Materials In U.S.
General Motors has agreed to establish a joint venture with Lithium Americas Corp. that includes the automaker supplying $625 million in cash and credit to the Canadian mining business, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal is centered on the development,...
Army Closes In On Autonomous Boats To Ferry Supplies Into Battle
The Army is developing requirements to distribute supplies to troops on the battlefield in a contested environment using a network of autonomous boats and aircraft, according to the general in charge of logistics modernization. "Our focus is an...
Incentives Drive Up EV Sales In Third Quarter 2024 As Tesla Rebounds
Attractive lease deals, incentive offers from manufacturers, and an expanding charging network pushed a record number of consumers into combustion-free electric vehicles (EVs) in the third quarter of this year, According to industry analysts at Cox Automotive. More...
Farming On Mars & Lab Robots
Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted and howled, and driving rain fell from thick, cloudy skies. It wasn’t really so different from our own planet 4 billion years ago, except for one crucial...
Self-Flying Black Hawk Helicopters May Soon Come To A Sky Near You
Autonomous helicopters have been in the works for years now, and that means we're already getting to see some incipient results. One such development might take the form of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter, for which DARPA just gave one of the biggest names in this...
How Data From Space Is Transforming Mobility Services
The satellite industry has been transformed in recent years from one with a few, mostly government-controlled, high-orbit vehicles into one with a proliferation of smaller, low-orbit constellations of multiple satellites dominated by commercial enterprises. All that...
