The Industry Innovation Report
Driverless Vehicles On Limited Routes Bump Along Despite US Robotaxi Scrutiny
A quest for lower costs and efficiently moving goods and groups of people is pushing demand for driverless technology in trucks and shuttles, even as robotaxis battle renewed doubts after an October accident involving a General Motors Cruise car. Pittsburgh,...
NASA Marks 25th Anniversary Of ISS With Call To Crew On Space Station
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Cabana was at the aft flight deck controls of the space shuttle Endeavour when he fired the orbiter's thrusters to connect a U.S.-built node with a Russian module in Earth orbit. The burst closed the short distance between "Unity" and...
The Future Of Urban Mobility In Emerging Economies
Urbanization presents major challenges not only for industrialized nations, but also for emerging countries, particularly when it comes to their future transport infrastructure. The "Emerging Urban Mobility" study carried out by Fraunhofer IAO looks at the demand for...
Polar Bear Dens Are Hard For Humans To See, But Drone-Mounted Radar Can Help
When he developed a drone-mounted radar system that could penetrate multiple layers of snow, Rolf-Ole Rydeng Jenssen imagined using it to measure snowfall or predict avalanches. Both applications would be helpful in subarctic Tromsø, Norway, where Jenssen works as an...
Marathon EU Talks Fail To Reach Deal On Artificial Intelligence Act
The negotiations began on Wednesday afternoon, went into the entire night, continued during the morning and concluded on Thursday afternoon, with an agenda that reportedly featured over 23 items, reflecting the extreme technicality of the issue at hand. The Act...
Amazon’s Humanoid Warehouse Robots Will Eventually Cost Only $3 Per Hour To Operate
Amazon recently began testing a new robot in its warehouse operations — meet Digit, a humanoid bipedal robot with a turquoise torso and smiley eyes. Designed by Agility Robotics, which Amazon has invested in as part of its Industrial Innovation Fund, Digit is only the...
Michigan: Whitmer Signs Directive To Make State Government Vehicles Electric By 2040
All state government vehicles in Michigan will be electric by 2040 after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive mandating the state fleet be converted to zero-emission on Dec. 5. Departments across the state have more than 8,000...
Americans Bought More Than A Million EVs This Year
Americans purchased one million fully electric vehicles in 2023, the first time that many EVs have ever been sold in this country in a single year. More than 960,000 purely electric vehicles had been sold through October, according to a report from Bloomberg New...
AI, Autonomous Systems, And Digital Connectivity Could Help Ships Cut Emissions
The International Maritime Organization has committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. But a recent analysis suggests the industry is struggling to take steps toward that goal, including using zero-emission options for 5% of its fuels by 2030....
To Help AVs Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch The ‘Trolley Problem’
Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous vehicles how to make "good" decisions. The work is designed to capture a...
