The Industry Innovation Report
GM And Ford Will Put 5,000 AVs on the Road Without Pedals or Steering Wheels
The race to create reliable, safe, and production-ready autonomous vehicle technology is only getting hotter these days. Now, General Motors and Ford have both petitioned the NHTSA to allow each of them a special exemption in an effort to further their...
How Driverless Delivery Vehicles Really Work
The electric revolution is in full swing and has opened the doors to an autonomous, self-driving future. Today's modern cars are capable of Level 2 autonomy using an array of ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) driving aids like adaptive cruise control and...
Robots Discover 39 Potential New Species at Bottom of Ocean
Robots have discovered 39 potential new species at the bottom of the ocean. Researchers at the Natural History Museum said the undescribed organisms represent a fraction of the undiscovered species from the deep sea, which scientists are working to understand. A...
For the First Time, NASA Robots Work Together on International Space Station
Not every worker aboard the International Space Station is a human. As a matter of fact, not every worker is an organic life-form. Hundreds of miles above Earth, floating right next to trained astronauts in this space-borne laboratory, you'll find Honey, Queen...
The James Webb Space Telescope Looking for Supermassive Black Holes
Even NASA's next-generation space observatory can't manage to see supermassive black holes directly, but that doesn't mean astronomers can't use its data to better understand the mysterious behemoths. The opportunities are even on display in the first science-quality...
LG, SoundHound Team Up for Advanced AI Voice Control in Vehicles
LG and SoundHound are teaming up to develop an advanced AI voice system to enable conversational voice control in vehicles. SoundHound's voice recognition technology will be integrated with LG's in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system, allowing drivers to control...
Chess Robot Breaks 7-year-old Opponent’s Finger at Moscow Tournament
A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its seven-year-old opponent and broke it during last week's Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday. "The robot broke the child's finger," Sergei Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told...
Robots Not Done Reshaping Warehouses
When Digit spends an afternoon unloading boxes from a tractor-trailer in 100-plus-degree heat, co-workers never hear a complaint. Digit, a blue-and-white humanoid robot, was designed to handle the tough, menial and dangerous tasks at warehouses. The robot’s movements,...
John Deere Industry 4.0 Push Goes 3D
US-based Vertex Software won a deal to deliver a 3D virtualisation system to John Deere, a move it claimed advanced the agricultural and heavy equipment manufacturer’s Industry 4.0 initiatives. Vertex stated its software will contribute to John Deere’s smart connected...
How AI is Changing Astronomy
When most people picture an astronomer, they think of a lone person sitting on top of a mountain, peering into a massive telescope. Of course, that image is out of date: Digital cameras have long since done away with the need to actually look though a...
