Category: Technology
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Reinventing the Wheel – Electrifying Mobility
The phrase “reinventing the wheel” is a typical admonishment for those who are recreating something that already has been developed and works pretty well. It is difficult to believe that someone could improve an invention so basic as the wheel, but from electric skateboards to robots to vehicles, we are starting to see the in-wheel motor…
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2017 Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Award Winners Span the Globe
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced its 2017 award recipients on December 7th after a late dinner in Santa Clara, California attended by over 1500 semiconductor industry executives. The GSA awards program has recognized the achievements of semiconductor companies in several categories ranging from outstanding leadership to financial accomplishments, as well as overall respect within…
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An Electrifying People Mover – Part 2
“Find a repetitive job and then automate it,” is Ryan Popple’s pragmatic view of the integration of automation into the mobility space. In the above video, Popple, president, and CEO of electric bus manufacturer, Proterra, Inc., explains that one example of this sort of incremental automation is the mechanism they developed to precisely align their…
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Rethinking Cities Through Personal Transport #CES2017
As pointed out in an article in this week’s Wall Street Journal, thanks to mandates and its size as the largest vehicle market, the Chinese market is driving the demand for electric cars. Eli Electric Vehicles, a Beijing-based, electric vehicle start-up is driven beyond mandates, however and has a vision to create mobility at a human-scale.…
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A Force Multiplier – An Autonomous Mobile Sensing Device
“The K3 and the K5 we have been operating now over 180,000 hours and over 100,000 hours all across the country helping security guards and security professionals do their jobs more effectively,” said William Santana Li, CEO and Chairman of Knightscope, Inc. These mobile, autonomous data gathering machines, with sensors to measure and record things…
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Keep on Trucking With Automation #AVS17
With the headlines screaming the potential loss of millions of jobs, one of the more timely panels at Automated Vehicle Symposium 2017 (AVS17) was on the impact of autonomy on the trucking industry. Richard Bishop of Bishop Consulting, led a panel at AVS17 that brought together a broad swath of the trucking ecosystem, including one of…