The Industry Innovation Report
Autonomous Vehicles Need Stricter Rules -U.S. Safety Group, Labor Unions
U.S. labor unions and a consumer safety advocate on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to add more safeguards to ensure autonomous vehicles are safe before being deployed in wide numbers on U.S. roads. Lawmakers at a U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure...
UK: Lack of Agri-tech Knowledge ‘Holding Farmers Back’
A lack of knowledge is holding many farmers back from investing in new agricultural technology, according to a new survey by NFU Mutual. Lack of access to finance was the second highest reason limiting respondents (30%), followed by uncertainty about the future (17%)...
Frightening Reality of Meta-Built Artificial Intelligence That Can Think ‘the Way We Do’
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg was met with a mixed reaction after touting his company's "exciting breakthrough" towards creating an artificial intelligence system that thinks "the way we do." In a Facebook post on Thursday, Zuckerberg hailed the development...
May Mobility in Ann Arbor Closes $83M Series C Funding
May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology company based in Ann Arbor, has announced the initial closing of a Series C round of funding with an investment of $83 million led by Mirai Creation Fund II, a managed fund of Sparx Group Co. Other new investors are Tokio...
General Motors Plans 8,000 New Tech Hires to Power EV Goals
General Motors Co said on Wednesday it would hire more than 8,000 new technical staff this year, as the U.S. automaker accelerates its development of electric vehicles and software-driven services. The company said it is expanding teams that electrify cars, develop...
Drones Banned in UAE After Deadly Drone Attack
A growing number of countries are banning the use of commercial drones amid concerns that they can be relatively easily converted into killing machines. The United Arab Emirates joined that list over the weekend by announcing a nationwide ban on the use of consumer...
Chinese Space Plane Company Targets Suborbital Tourism, Point-to-point Travel by 2025
The Chinese company Space Transportation is developing a "rocket with wings" for space tourism and point-to-point travel. "We are developing a winged rocket for high-speed, point-to-point transportation, which is lower in cost than rockets that carry satellites and...
Should Robots Be Able To Deliver Booze?
A prolific early contender in the autonomous delivery race has forged a partnership with an authentication company. The reason? There's a big market for the delivery of age-restricted items. There's a larger market story behind this partnership. The...
Starship Technologies Launches Robot Food Deliveries at SMU
San Francisco-based Starship Technologies has launched on-demand food deliveries on the Southern Methodist University campus with a fleet of 16 autonomous robots. The six-wheeled robots will deliver meals from nine campus eateries: Cinco Taco, Einstein Bros Bagels,...
Ocado Unveils Lighter Robots to Take on Amazon
U.K. retail tech company Ocado on Wednesday unveiled a suite of new products aimed at helping large grocery chains take on Amazon and a wave of new rapid grocery delivery start-ups. While Ocado is most well known for its online supermarket, a top focus for the company...
