The Industry Innovation Report
Uber To Invest Over $100 Million In Autonomous Vehicle Charging Amid Robotaxi Push
Uber Technologies said on Wednesday it would invest more than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs, underscoring the ride-hailing company's latest push to scale up self-driving operations. The move includes building DC fast charging stations at its...
EV Batteries Lasting Longer Than Expected
Electric car batteries are lasting longer than expected, according to the largest-ever UK used EV battery study, conducted by battery health experts Generational. The firm analysed 8,000 EVs across 36 manufacturers, aged between 0 and 12 years and ranging from 0...
Astemo Engineering Careers Tour Meets Brody Cavanaugh
The Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today team spent the day on campus at Detroit’s Wayne State University just before winter break. During our visit, John Petty and Cindy Polakowski met with Brody Cavanaugh, President of Warrior Racing at WSU. Brody talks...
US To Rapidly Design Fusion Stellarators Using AI — Testing Configurations In Seconds
Stellarators use magnets with complicated shapes circling the outside of the system’s vacuum vessel to create all the magnetic fields needed to confine the fusion plasma. Known as StellFoundry, the new project focuses on replacing lengthy calculations in the design...
Quadric IT Debuts AI Cane For The Blind
One of the most inspiring additions to Quadric IT’s portfolio is the Smart AI Cane, an assistive mobility device designed to help visually impaired individuals move more safely and confidently. The idea originated from a high school student who wanted to build an...
Four Astronauts Launch To Space Station After Prior Crew’s Early Departure
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were originally going to overlap in space with the outgoing crew, a mission known as Crew-11. But that group had to return to Earth...
This Battery Train Just Changed Future Of Rail Travel
The UK has rolled out its first battery-only passenger train, one that has already set a world record in trials.The nation’s first-ever battery-only powered passenger train has entered service, promising cleaner, quieter journeys. Operating on a small branch line in...
Top 10: Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles
In the past couple of years, alternative road transportation has hit something of an inflection point in the world's major economies. According to recent data, 50% of new cars sold in China are EVs, while 19% of all cars in use in Europe are electric. The US is not...
Earth’s Core May Hide Dozens Of Oceans Of Hydrogen
The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough hydrogen to form dozens of oceans of water may have been...
Training Army Leaders To Integrate Robotic And Autonomous Systems In Combat
The U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) at Fort Benning launched the first pilot of the Robotic Autonomous Systems Leader Tactics Course (RASLT) yesterday as part of Army-wide Transforming in Contact (TiC) initiatives. The course will prepare Army leaders...
