The Industry Innovation Report
Cruise Taking All Vehicles Off Public Roads Amid Expanded Safety Probe
Cruise, General Motors' embattled driverless car unit, said Tuesday it will pause all public road operations — both supervised and manual — in an expansion of last month's pause of driverless operations. "This orderly pause is a further step to rebuild public trust...
Autonomous Trucks Are Coming To A Road Near You: The Kiplinger Letter
Autonomous trucks are slowly hitting the road, mostly on interstates in Texas and the Southwest, with a human driver on board, standing by, or traveling in platoons behind a lead truck driven by a person. Maersk is running Kodiak Robotics trucks between warehouses in...
GE Joins Green Hydrogen Power Plant Project
GE Vernova is in partnership to develop a green-hydrogen peaking power supply for a Duke Energy power plant in Florida, adapting a GE gas turbine to operate with flexible fuel sources, including 100% green hydrogen. GE Vernova is joining Duke Energy in its development...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Preps for Solar Conjunction
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter just made its 65th and 66th Red Planet flights, two short hops that helped prep the chopper for a coming stretch in which it will be cut off from ground control. Flight 65 occurred on Nov. 2. The 4-pound (1.8...
Amazon Drone Delivery Great Publicity; Deeply Flawed, Highly Impractical
Amazon launched their delivery programme years ago in two US cities, College Station, Texas and Lockeford, California amid a lot of fanfare. However, since then, Amazon Prime Air has proven to be impractical. At times, all it can deliver is a can of soup. Amazon...
AI And Drones Are Helping Scientists Study Secrets Of Elephant Behavior
A biotech startup aiming to bring back the wooly mammoth is partnering with an elephant conservation organization to use drones and AI to track African elephants and study their behavior. The big picture: High-tech tools are increasingly being deployed...
How IoT Will Shape Healthcare, Manufacturing, And More By 2024
The Internet of Things has been transforming various industries, and as we approach a new year, IoT in 2024 promising impact is becoming even more profound. In this blog post, we will explore how IoT is set to reshape healthcare, manufacturing, and several other...
Safeguarding Your Business In The Age Of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly infiltrated our daily lives and the business landscape, revolutionizing the way we consume and interact with information. Machine learning algorithms, natural language processing and deep learning models enable AI systems to...
These Robots Reached A Team Consensus Like A Swarm Of Bees
Bees are extremely adept at communicating, even though their brains weigh just two milligrams. They’re so efficient at reaching a consensus, in fact, that researchers created a mini-robot team inspired by their ‘conversations.’ In the search for a new...
Aigen Ramps Up Production Of Solar-Powered Farm Robots
Seattle-area agtech startup Aigen is aiming to scale up production of its weed-destroying robots and broaden its footprint on farms across the U.S. The company on Thursday revealed the investors in its new $12 million investment round. ReGen Ventures led the...
