Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2025

At Google DeepMind , we asked ourselves: How do we enable robots to learn and adapt more holistically and continuously, reducing the bottleneck of expert intervention for every significant improvement or new skill? DeepMind To enable the extensive training needed for these paradigms, we engineered a fully autonomous table-tennis environment.

Google

Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2025

Google DeepMind & the UK’s National Grid In one of the most high-profile cases of AI in renewable energy, Google’s DeepMind partnered with the UK’s National Grid to enhance wind energy forecasting. AI-powered control systems are now central to managing this dynamic environment. Successful Real-World Implementations 1.

Renewable

Creative Greenius

JULY 27, 2013

Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.

Google

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.

Google

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2017

Volvo Cars announced a “close” partnership with Google to develop the next generation of in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android, offering access to a wide array of apps and services. We are making an important strategic step with the Google partnership. It will launch on new Volvo models within two years.

Google

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

Google

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2021

NVIDIA will acquire DeepMap, a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. DeepMap was founded five years ago by James Wu and Mark Wheeler, veterans of Google, Apple and Baidu, among other companies. AVs, however, require much greater precision. Finally, they must be able to function worldwide.

San Jose

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

Daimler is pursuing strategic research partnerships in the field of quantum computing, and has signed a cooperation agreement with Google in this area. The design of Google’s recent 72?qubit Source: Google. We believe Bristlecone would then be a compelling proof-of-principle for building larger scale quantum computers.

Google

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Department of Environment. Hume Building Society. The announcement of the Foundation Group members will be supported by a wide-ranging advertising campaign, commissioned by MMAL. i-MiEV Foundation Members include: Department of Climate Change. Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

i-MiEV

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Volkswagen sees considerable potential in using this cutting-edge computing technology for building new applications and business models within the company. In the field of quantum computing, the Volkswagen Group is cooperating with technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide the Volkswagen experts with access to their systems.

Taxi

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When I was a child, Wednesday was Incinerator Day, the day they burned the garbage we all threw down the garbage chute in the six story brick apartment building my family lived in (which was one of a dozen six story brick apartment buildings that were all part of the same Brooklyn complex we called home.).

Climate Change

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

With Audi connect, the company is building on the foundation of a collaboration with Google that began in 2005. These connections make a wide array of useful applications possible, such as the unrestricted integration of Google Earth into the navigation system’s map display. Car and environment. Car and owner.

Audi

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

Water

Creative Greenius

MAY 15, 2009

I’m just saying… Here’s a cool, custom interactive Google Map I created showing all 7 EPN Solar Homes Tour locations: View Larger Map. Or you can download a PDF flyer with all info by CLICKING HERE. You can download the flyer for the homes on their tour by CLICKING HERE.

Solar

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let’s create a nuclear energy research and development group at Google. I didn’t get laughed out of the room, maybe because Google has a storied history of supporting exploratory research. I had some credibility within the company.

Fusion

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mercedes-Benz also announced its most recent partnership—the new long-term strategic collaboration with Google to develop and implement a next-generation in-car navigation experience. Place Details provided by Google will be available starting today in all vehicles with the latest generation of MBUX in applicable markets.

Mercedes

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

In 2017, Ford announced it would invest $1 billion over five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021, and for potential license to other companies. Earlier post.).

Ford

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The Carbon XPRIZE is a part of XPRIZE’s growing portfolio of Energy & Environment prizes and long-term vision for accelerating revolutionary energy technologies to help move the world towards a clean, abundant energy future. According to the International Energy Agency, 82% of the world’s energy supply is derived from fossil fuels.

Conversion

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) ’s Secure Systems Research Centre (SSRC) is leading one promising approach to building an autonomous security testbed that explores the interplay between how hardware, software, and communications systems can be exploited so that they can be hardened.

Building

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2018

DeepMap builds upon the growing RBVC portfolio of technologies addressing the autonomous vehicle vertical, next to start-ups like AImotive and Tetravue. High Definition (HD) maps are complete and accurate volumetric reconstructions of a 3D environment and provide a critical set of “pre-information” to autonomous vehicles.

Google

Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. But Google withdrew its smart glasses from the market in early 2015. MegaOne builds projectors. Microsoft's HoloLens is an example.

Google

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

The framework enables new set of vehicle APIs for developers, allowing them to interact with and build upon the infotainment systems in GM vehicles. Developers who have a great idea for an app but need some help building it can turn to jacAPPS—the recommended mobile app development house for the Ford Developer Program.

GM

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." But this doesn't seem fair to me, especially for a company that Google used to own.

Google

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Immersive virtual reality hasn't progressed much in conception or implementation from the systems prototyped three decades ago—certainly not enough to present it as the future of people's daily work environment. We can then take what we learn and immediately put it to work protecting the real environment around us.

Google

Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Gravity, a New York-based EV charging startup backed by Google Ventures, claims to be rolling out the fastest chargers in the U.S. It’s quite a different environment than the indoor urban EV charging station Electrify America recently revealed. This is means “faster charging than any car currently on the U.S.

Google

Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2024

One of the biggest challenges for robotics right now is practical autonomous operation in unstructured environments. The DARPA Subterranean Challenge ran from 2018 to 2021, putting mobile robots through a series of unstructured underground environments. But DARPA SubT demonstrated that similar environments can be found on Earth, too.

Environment

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. The US and China take the lead in scaling up the technology, given their large markets, tech-friendly regulatory environments and industry giants, such as Google and the State Grid Corporation of China.

Carbon

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AUGUST 19, 2024

To build it, Taipei-based Hongde Renewable Energy bought 57.6 The latter included a 10-MW facility in Tainan that Google had announced to great fanfare in 2019 as its first renewable energy investment in Asia , to supply power for the company’s Taiwan datacenters. What is aquavoltaics? That’s the impetus behind the new 42.9-megawatt

Taiwan

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services. We can build a qubit. We can build a qubit.

China

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This number is important, because it is the baseline necessary to perform error correction , which is believed to be necessary to build a large-scale quantum computer. There are many contending platforms in the race to build a useful quantum computer. IBM , Google and others are building their machines out of superconducting qubits.

Google

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Several companies are developing programs for package delivery using drones, including Amazon, Google, UPS and Deutsche Post DHL. The researchers set out to find if drone delivery is a promising idea for the environment or whether, like conventional overnight package delivery, it leads to much higher energy use and carbon emissions.

Emissions

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MARCH 23, 2024

Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build. The green software movement is fast gaining momentum. It’s not just lines of code.

Green

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The government aims to begin work on a national infrastructure but expects the private sector to take the lead in building the charging networks needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Facebook BlinkList Contact us Close Contact the Environment editor environment@guardian.co.uk nottingham.

Environment

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Robots need robot data to learn from, and this data is typically created slowly and tediously by researchers in laboratory environments for very specific tasks. Chris Philpot To evaluate the combination of Internet-acquired smarts and multirobot data, we tested our RT-X model with Google’s mobile manipulator robot.

Global

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MAY 10, 2024

In a research environment, this has been fine, except that research is changing: Roboticists no longer carefully program manipulation tasks by, uh, hand. Now it’s all about machine learning, in which you need robotic hands to massively fail over and over again until they build up enough data to understand how to succeed.

Design

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University , cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu , where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group.

Building

Cars That Think

MARCH 2, 2023

Over the past year, Figure has hired more than 40 engineers from institutions that include IHMC, Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Waymo, and Google X, most of whom have significant prior experience with humanoid robots or other autonomous systems. This relates back to the reason why Figure is building a humanoid robot in the first place.

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