Waymo begins work on dedicated Texas hub for self-driving trucks

Alphabet-owned Waymo is looking to gain a strong foothold in the nascent autonomous freight industry, today announcing plans to build a dedicated hub for its self-driving trucks in the state of Texas. The facility will serve as the company’s primary ba… Continue reading Waymo begins work on dedicated Texas hub for self-driving trucks

Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform

Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. AI/ML spans dozens of different fields of research, covering all kinds of different problems and alternative and often incompatible ways to solve them. One robust area of research here that has antecedents going back to […] Continue reading Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform

Cybersecurity on the Move: Preventing Attacks on Shipping and Logistics

Something was very wrong at Forward Air on December 15, 2020. The company’s website was completely down. No one answered the customer service lines. Customers were waiting — and waiting — and waiting — for scheduled arrivals. And with all systems down, those customers had no way to get any information or track their packages. […]

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JIT vs. AM: Is Additive Manufacturing the Cure to Fragile Supply Chains?

As fascinating and frustrating as it was to watch the recent Suez canal debacle, we did so knowing that the fallout from it and the analysis of its impact would …read more Continue reading JIT vs. AM: Is Additive Manufacturing the Cure to Fragile Supply Chains?

Arrival’s latest electric van set to begin trials on public roads

After agreeing to build 10,000 electric delivery vans for UPS last year, UK startup Arrival has today revealed specs and images for its latest all-electric van, ahead of trials on public roads “with key customers” this (northern) summer.Continue Readin… Continue reading Arrival’s latest electric van set to begin trials on public roads

Tive nabs $12M Series A to track shipment conditions in real time

Tive, a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or medicine to make sure it is stored under the proper conditions as it moves from farm or factory to market. Today, the company announced a $12 million Series A. RRE Ventures led […] Continue reading Tive nabs $12M Series A to track shipment conditions in real time

Salesforce creates for profit platform to help governments distribute COVID vaccine when it’s ready

For more than 20 years, Salesforce has been selling cloud business software, but it has also used the same platform to build ways to track other elements besides sales, marketing and service information including Work.com, the platform it created earlier this year to help companies develop and organize a safe way to begin returning to […] Continue reading Salesforce creates for profit platform to help governments distribute COVID vaccine when it’s ready

Electric U-Shift takes a modular approach to urban mobility

The German Aerospace Center has revealed a working prototype of a multi-use urban mobility and logistics vehicle called U-Shift, which is made up of an electric U-shaped base platform that’s used to ferry around various pod modules.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Electric U-Shift takes a modular approach to urban mobility

Smart postage box packs e-ink label, sensors, camera, speaker and mic

There are few things more exciting in our modern world than watching and waiting for a parcel to arrive – and by the same token, few things more frustrating than when it arrives broken or doesn’t arrive at all. To prevent that, or at least make it easi… Continue reading Smart postage box packs e-ink label, sensors, camera, speaker and mic

EHang air taxi approved for heavy-lift air logistics in China

Air mobility company EHang has achieved another important milestone in its effort to make its passenger-grade autonomous aerial vehicles a common sight in the skies. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CCAC) has granted permission for the air t… Continue reading EHang air taxi approved for heavy-lift air logistics in China