Having long supply chains with many subcontractors involved can make it difficult for a company to overview its production. There are plenty of things that can go wrong on different levels that a company does not have direct control over. But now, researchers from the...
Whether in real life or Kerbal Space Program, the holy grail of spacecraft is the single stage to orbit vehicle, or SSTO for short. Such a vehicle would, for obvious reasons, be the pinnacle of reusability.SSTOs were widely pursued in the 1990s, for example, by NASA...
With the Internet, human beings have begun to communicate digitally. Then with M2M-protocols (machine-to-machine) and IoT-technology (Internet of Things), even industrial machines have become networked.Another step in the digital revolution lies in the...
On December 14, the world's largest automobile manufacturer, Toyota, announced that they've committed $70 billion towards electrification. Half of this sizeable sum is aimed to launch 30 new electric models by 2030. Their luxury brand, Lexus, desire to have...
Sales of electric cars are expected to increase dramatically soon. However, several critical issues remain, mostly related to the grid recharging need.The network is not yet ready to receive a massive increase in electricity demand, just as the recharging...
Self-driving cars are a hot field of research nowadays, but some issues remain unsolved. Current AI may for example have problems with scenarios where a cyclist is temporarily obscured for a few seconds by a car. The AI can then forget that the cyclist...