The Industry Innovation Report
California: Voters Say No to Prop. 30 and Taxing Rich for EVs
California Proposition 30 would impose a 1.75% personal income tax increase on the top-earning Californians — for the share of their income above $2 million — per year to fund a suite of climate programs. But returns showed voters defeating the...
This Crazy Hacker Drone Uses Wi-Fi to ‘See Through Walls’
A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have turned a $20 drone into a terrifying implication about the future of surveillance. The drone hack, which is being called “Wi-Peep” by the researchers, was presented at the 28th Annual International Conference...
Amazon’s New Warehouse Robot Could One Day Replace Humans
Amazon on Thursday showed off a new robot that could one day assist warehouse workers with some of the more tedious aspects of the job. The company unveiled “Sparrow,” a robotic arm that can pluck millions of items of varying shapes and sizes, on stage at the...
BALLU, the Bipedal Balloon Robot Can Walk on Water or a Tightrope
BALLU is a bipedal balloon robot that cannot fall down, according to its inventor, however it is not suitable for outdoor use because of wind. Watch Video at USA Today
First AV Demonstration in Luxembourg Traffic
The University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) demonstrated its autonomous car in live traffic on Kirchberg today, Thursday, November 3, 2022. This represents the first time a single-family autonomous car has joined...
How AI Drives Gains in Healthcare, AVs – and Beyond
G42 is a technology holding company with multiple vertical businesses under sectors including smart cities, oil and gas and healthcare. Xiao has a vision for how AI will become truly transformative: “Today we live in the age of artificial narrow intelligence. Many of...
Australian EV Conversion Startup Merges with UK Firm to Turn Classic Cars Electric
An Australian startup adding modern technology to classic Land Rovers will become part of one of the biggest electric vehicle conversion companies in the world this week after merging with a British firm. Melbourne-based Jaunt Motors will partner with Zero EV to...
Defeating Drones: Most Promising Weapons Non-Kinetic
The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. Army, which leads joint efforts to counter the threat posed by unmanned air systems, anticipated this development years ago and has identified means for tracking...
Pentagon: Most UFOs are Clutter and Chinese Surveillance Drones
The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders. Intelligence agencies in the U.S. have spent the last few years analyzing footage of hundreds of recent...
There’s Still Green in Climate Robots
Kicking things off with a big funding round for AMP Robotics this week for a couple of reasons, but when push comes to shove, it comes down to something really simple: There are a lot of great reasons to be bullish on automation and there are a lot of...
