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Jul 3, 2022
A hacked Tesla Model S Plaid achieves a record-breaking speed of 216 mph
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: cybercrime/malcode, sustainability, transportation
Jul 3, 2022
Japan JUST REVEALED New Fully performing Female Robots
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
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Jul 3, 2022
Soof Azani and Lir Braverman propose collapsible solar-powered bike for last-mile deliveries
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: business, solar power, sustainability, transportation
Soof Azani and Lir Braverman’s proposal for a solar-powered cargo bike that aims to facilitate local deliveries is the latest of 10 visionary transportation projects selected for Dezeen’s Future Mobility Competition powered by Arrival.
Called D50, Azani and Braverman’s concept aims to combine solar power with micro-mobility in a bid to improve the distribution of goods while reducing carbon emissions.
Jul 3, 2022
How bike parking pods could make US cities better for cyclists
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: transportation
Cities won’t encourage more cycling if there’s nowhere to park your bike. This startup wants to change that.
Cities can’t encourage more cycling if there’s nowhere for people to park their bikes. This startup wants to change that.
Jul 2, 2022
Competition to replace Bradley vehicles enters design, prototype phase
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: government, transportation
UPDATE — This story has been updated to include additional information from an Army press release.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has opened up the competition to design and build prototypes for its Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement, releasing a request for proposals to industry July 1 on the government contracting website Sam.gov.
The details of the RFP covering both a detailed design (phase 3) and prototyping (phase 4) are not yet publicly available.
Jul 2, 2022
A model that allows robots to follow and guide humans in crowded environments
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: health, robotics/AI, transportation
Assistance robots are typically mobile robots designed to assist humans in malls, airports, health care facilities, home environments and various other settings. Among other things, these robots could help users to find their way around unknown environments, for instance guiding them to a specific location or sharing important information with them.
While the capabilities of assistance robots have improved significantly over the past decade, the systems that have so far been implemented in real-world environments are not yet capable of following or guiding humans efficiently within crowded spaces. In fact, training robots to track a specific user while navigating a dynamic environment characterized by many randomly moving “obstacles” is far from a simple task.
Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Technology have recently introduced a new model based on deep reinforcement learning that could allow mobile robots to guide a specific user to a desired location or follow him/her around while carrying their belongings, all within a crowded environment. This model, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv, could help to significantly enhance the capabilities of robots in malls, airports and other public places.
Jul 2, 2022
Off-grid hydrogen generation technology for on-demand power
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation
Spotted: Although relatively expensive to produce at present, and with storage often cited as a concern, green hydrogen fuel production is increasing. A naturally occurring and superabundant element, hydrogen is popular for several reasons, including the ability to produce it using renewable energy sources. And now, Element 1’s modular, grid-independent hydrogen generation technology is making the fuel even more accessible.
Designed to efficiently convert methanol to hydrogen to electricity, the technology supports both hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and electric vehicles. The company’s catalytic reactor heats a methanol and water feedstock mix before sending it through a membrane purifier for almost 100 per cent fuel cell grade hydrogen.
Because the modular system produces the fuel as needed, the risk of combustion is nearly eliminated, and specialty storage facilities are redundant. This is because the only material that needs to be stored and transported is the methanol and water feedstock. The hydrogen is then produced on-site. Element 1 provides both small and large-scale solutions, as well as a mobile version specifically for refuelling electric vehicles on the go.
Jul 1, 2022
Stock version of the Lucid Air Grand Touring wins fastest production car at Goodwood 2022
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: transportation
During this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lucid Motors not only publicly debuted its Air Grand Touring Performance for the first time, but raced up the famed hill … quickly. Manned by professional driver Ben Collins, the Lucid Air Grand Touring recorded a time in the Goodwood Hillclimb Timed Shootout fast enough to claim the crown as fastest production car.
The Air is the first EV to debut under the Lucid marque, which began last fall with the Dream Edition model. In 2022, deliveries of the second model – the Air Grand Touring – began. According to Lucid Motors’ Q1 report for 2022, it had delivered 360 EVs, but it is unclear how many of them were Grand Tourings.
Even among supply chain constraints that have continued to plague the American automaker’s output goals for 2022, Lucid has maintained excitement around its Air sedan. In April, Lucid announced a new Performance version of the Air Grand Touring with 1,050 horsepower and 446 miles of range.
Jul 1, 2022
GridRaster Uses the Metaverse to Build High Tech Prototypes and Finished Products
Posted by Len Rosen in categories: augmented reality, mapping, robotics/AI, transportation, virtual reality
An Interview with COO Dijam Panigrahi.
“a unified and shared software infrastructure to empower enterprise customers to build and run scalable, high-quality eXtended Reality (XR) – Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) – applications in public, private, and hybrid clouds.”
What does that all mean?