The Industry Innovation Report
California Plan Aims to Triple Sale of EVs by 2026
California wants electric vehicle sales to triple in the next four years to 35% of all new car purchases, an aggressive target set as part of the goal to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars by the middle of next decade. The California Air Resources Board's proposal...
Waymo’s Self-driving Car Ready for Commercial Service in San Francisco
It's called Waymo and it's about to make history with its self-driving vehicles . The subsidiary of Alphabet (which belongs to Google) has been testing its driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco for almost a year and could soon start operating to offer taxi...
New Ag Robotics Forum Connects Growers and Startups
The World FIRA Ag Robotics Forum is launching a new event to take place in Fresno on October 18-20 to connect specialty crop growers, agtech startups, investors and leaders in workforce development. The French non-profit organization GOFAR established the annual forum...
Final James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Reaches Super-cold Operating Temperature
The James Webb Space Telescope notched a cool milestone — literally — during its months-long calibration for deep-space observations. The final instrument aboard the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope finally achieved its operating temperature of just...
Nations Scramble to Take Lead in 6G Technology
As 6G, the next-generation communication technology, is widely expected to achieve commercialization around 2030, various nations are ramping up research and development efforts, despite the absence of clear technical routes or unified international standards. The...
Artificial Intelligence is Changing Soccer and Could Decide 2022 World Cup
Referees need all the help they can get, and they could be about to be given a hand from artificial intelligence. Over the past few years, FIFA has been trialing the use of limb-tracking offside technology, which uses AI along with a series of cameras around the...
California Start-up Sends Tiny Robots on Voyage into Brains
Sending miniature robots deep inside the human skull to treat brain disorders has long been the stuff of science fiction -- but it could soon become reality, according to a California start-up. Bionaut Labs plans its first clinical trials on humans in just two years...
Amazon Still Struggling to Make Drone Deliveries Work
A report from Bloomberg details the obstacles hampering Amazon’s efforts to get its delivery drone program off the ground, citing a high employee turnover rate and potential safety risks. According to Bloomberg, there were five crashes over the course of a...
Video of Police Pulling Over Driverless Car Viewed 1.2 Million Times
A video of a driverless car being pulled over by police in San Francisco has been watched more than 1.2 million times. B.rad916 posted a clip on Instagram of a self-driving car belonging to General Motors' Cruise line interacting with San Francisco Police Department...
Nissan Seeks to Create the Battery that Could Change EVs Forever
We know: the future of the automotive industry is electric. Car manufacturers are clear about this and work hard to develop vehicles that help them meet the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in their products and operations, in addition to offering consumers...
