Piloting

Photo: Skanska Skanska is piloting a Wirtgen Group electric compaction roller, one of just five pre-production models in North America. The global construction giant is piloting the electric compaction roller on the Los Angeles Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project. The Wirtgen Group’s HAMM HD 12e VV is among the first all-electric compactors to be employed on an ongoing project in the US.   The 2,755 kg (6,074 lb) electric compaction roller has a nickel manganese cobalt lithium-ion…

Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marina’s voice is barely above a whisper. “When the hippopotamuses quarrel, then the frogs get stepped on,” she says of geopolitical conflicts, including the war in Ukraine.She’s sphinxlike, at times. I’m starting to think she may have the rare quality that Fitzgerald’s characters called “repose,” a kind of physical self-possession seen only in people who lack neurotic tics like face-touching. Marina never fidgets. And her soft voice is not…

Denver is one of three cities across the country where Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription service for Prime members. For a monthly subscription of $9.99, members in the Denver area can have access to unlimited grocery delivery with no fees from Whole Foods Market, a subsidiary of Amazon, and grocery retailer Amazon Fresh on orders over $35. The program also offers 30-minute service on orders of any size, Amazon said in a statement. The e-commerce giant and grocer is also offering the service in Sacramento,…

 Used car retailer CarMax (NYSE: KMX) is piloting an electric semi truck as a car hauler in California’s San Joaquin Valley. CarMax is leasing a Freightliner eCascadia from Penske Truck Leasing, and it’s the first to be leased by Penske Truck Leasing as a car hauler.  The eCascadia comes in 315 or 475 kWh configurations and has up to 250 miles of range while carrying approximately a 65,000-pound gross vehicle weight.  The pilot electric semi, which is being used in real-world conditions, can…

Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts is going to pilot a secondary bubble curtain – here’s what that is, and why it’s great for the undersea environment. Vineyard Wind The 800 MW Vineyard Wind 1 is a 50-50 joint venture between clean energy company Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. The $3.5 billion offshore wind farm will feature 62 Haliade-X 13 MW turbines, and it will supply clean energy for over 400,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts and reduce carbon emissions by over…

via Warner Bros. Having attempted to move on from the failure of Black Adam, which appears to involve rewriting the history books by claiming he wasn’t planning to make himself the focus of his own corner of the DCU despite voluminous evidence to the contrary, Dwayne Johnson has focused his attention elsewhere. The most jacked energy drink salesman on the planet has instead pivoted towards shilling his ZOA brand to the masses, because nothing compensates for the failure to launch a superhero franchise than…

Alphabet's division has teamed up with to deliver some convenience and grocery items — such as pantry staples, snacks and household essentials — by drone. Customers can place an order through the "DoorDash Air" section of the DoorDash app and receive their items in as little as 15 minutes.  When they check out, users will need to select a delivery spot for the drone to drop off their package. The DoorDash app will ask them to confirm that the drop zone is clear before the user completes the order. Wing/DoorDash The…

Manipulation and sensing have long been considered two key pillars for unlocking robotics’ potential. There’s a fair bit of overlap between the two, of course. As grippers have become a fundamental element of industrial robotics, these systems require the proper mechanisms for interacting with the world around them. Vision has long been a key to all of this, but companies are increasingly looking to tacticity as a method for gathering data. Among other things, it gives the robot a better sense of how much pressure to…

Illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechIt’s been enormously successful, and NASA extended its mission in March. However, it is also facing its challenges from the harsh conditions on Mars and the fact that it has been in operation far longer and flown many more flights than expected. Now it has a new challenge to overcome – one of its navigation sensors has stopped functioning.As the season has turned to winter in Jezero Crater, conditions have become increasingly challenging for…