The Industry Innovation Report
Wing Working on Larger Drones Handling Heavier Deliveries
Wing, the drone delivery company operated by Google parent Alphabet, unveiled a series of new prototype aircraft designed to handle a variety of payloads. The company said the new drones will share the same underlying components with the aircraft currently in use...
New E-Skin Lets Robots ‘See’ More Color Than Human Vision
One day, all robots might be able to see in technicolor—but not through their eyes. Instead, they’ll be able to see through their skin. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies, a team of researchers at the...
Digital Twins in Cybersecurity: Reducing Industry 4.0 Risks
Large-scale digital transformation initiatives over the last decade mean that cyber-physical systems are now intertwined with many manufacturing and industrial processes. These intelligent systems use computing, networking and sensors to help monitor, control and...
GM, Partners to Build 500 EV Charging Stations
A major automaker, large truck stop chain and an electric vehicle charging company are proposing a network that would put charging plugs at 50-mile intervals along U.S. highways. General Motors, Pilot Travel Centers and EVgo said Thursday they will build 2,000...
Indy Autonomous Challenge will Return to CES 2023 with Faster Vehicles
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) today announced that after making history at CES 2022 with the world’s first-ever, head-to-head autonomous racecar competition, that the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) will return to CES...
Mind-Blowing Photos from Webb Space Telescope: What They Can Tell Us
Webb’s cameras can look deep into space and far into the past. Webb has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant—which will be the farthest we’ve ever seen into space. This image of the galactic cluster known as SMACS 0723 contains thousands of galaxies,...
Watch SpaceX Launch Cargo Mission to the Space Station
SpaceX will launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday night (July 14), and you can watch it live. A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to lift off atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at 8:44 p.m. EDT...
Climate Tech Firm To Launch Scaled-Up Plant Sucking CO2 From Air
Construction is due to begin on Wednesday on what could become the world's biggest plant to capture carbon dioxide from the air and deposit it underground, the company behind the nascent green technology said. Swiss start-up Climeworks AG said its second large-scale...
Spanish Police Seize Underwater Drones Designed To Carry Drugs
Police in Spain have broken up a gang that was allegedly building semi-submersible drones each capable of ferrying up to 200kg of drugs across the strait of Gibraltar. The Policía Nacional arrested eight people in Cádiz, Málaga and Barcelona, and said it was...
The Next Frontier For Drones: Letting Them Fly Out Of Sight
For years, there’s been a cardinal rule for flying civilian drones: Keep them within your line of sight. Not just because it’s a good idea — it’s also the law. But some drones have recently gotten permission to soar out of their pilots’ sight. They can now inspect...
