The Industry Innovation Report
NASA Picks Landing Site at Moon’s South Pole for Ice-drilling Robot
NASA has set its sights on the moon's south pole in its quest for ice. This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moon for a small lander set to launch next year. The location...
Scientists Build Tiny Robot that Could Deliver Drugs with Amazing Accuracy
Imagine a microscopic robot propelled by undulating hairs moving through your stomach to deliver medication to diseased cells. That's the kind of future researchers at ETH Zurich hope to manifest with their latest creation. The team of scientists at the public...
Biden Bill Includes Boost for Union-Made EVs
President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are looking to give U.S. automakers with union employees the inside track on the burgeoning electric vehicle market, triggering vocal opposition from foreign trade partners and Republicans who worry that manufacturers in...
Australia Announces Policy to Boost EV Sales
Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday announced plans to encourage people to buy electric vehicles weeks after his government was accused at a U.N. conference in Scotland of being a laggard in fighting climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the price of...
Rivian Automotive Goes Public
Rivian Automotive, the electric vehicle maker backed by e-commerce giant Amazon.com and Ford Motor, debuted on the Nasdaq Tuesday. The Tesla competitor Rivian began trading at $106, up 36% from its offering price of $78 a share. The all-electric truck and SUV maker...
Plans Unveiled for High-tech ’10-Minute City’ in Seoul
The idea of a "15-minute city," in which residents can all reach work and leisure facilities within a quarter-hour walk -- or cycle -- of their homes, has gained significant traction among urban planners during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, a group of architects is...
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back
A long-term fallout of the Covid crisis has been the rise of the contactless enterprise, in which customers, and likely employees, interact with systems to get what they need or request. This means a pronounced role for artificial intelligence and machine...
AT&T Powering Unique IoT System: Cows Connected with Smart Sensors
AT&T is using its 5G network to power a unique type of connected device designed specifically for dairy farmers. The hardware comes from smaXtec, which describes it as a small smart sensor that cows physically swallow. The sensor stays in the cow’s first stomach...
Industry 4.0 Gets Its First Unicorn
Augury, an industrial AI + IoT company—with customers such as Colgate, Hershey's and Pepsi – has raised $180M in Series E funding. The round,led by Baker Hughes, launches the company to unicorn status and makes it an important bellwether for Industry 4.0 transitions....
Waymo to Start AV Testing in Most Difficult Location Yet
Waymo will begin testing in NYC, as shared by The Verge, to improve its coverage map of cities that have the driverless taxi service. To start out, the Waymo vehicles will not be autonomous. There will be two employees in the car, driving it around to map out the...
