DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

                                                                      

                 By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


HONEYWELL FORECASTS FLYING TAXI BOOM





                                                            
                                        Source:  Lilium

  • Honeywell International, the global technology company focused on aerospace & automotive innovations, is forecasting that flying taxis will be operating commercially by 2025 slowly at first but will be accelerating into a booming business by 2030
  • First users of the eVTOLs, or electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, will be the military and cargo transportation companies
  • Honeywell is one of the largest suppliers of military aircraft and equipment to the US government and is a big original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for the air taxi industry, with leading edge flying taxi customers like Lilium & more
  • The company expects its share of the eVTOL business to hit $2 billion by 2030
  • At an investor's conference today, the CEO of Honeywell's Aerospace Division Mike Madson sounded a very optimistic note on eVTOLs long term future, expecting them to become a key, innovative component of the global transportation system for consumers and industries.

MITSUBISHI'S MAGNIFICENT MOONSTONE CONCEPT


                                    Source:  Mitsubishi & IED

  • Moonstone is a futuristic, all-electric SUV concept car for 2035, designed by IED graduate students (Insituto Europeo di Design) in conjunction with & for Mitsubishi
  • The EV is nothing short of being gorgeous, fully electric with zero emissions & environmentally correct in many ways
  • Moonstone is a 2-door coupe-SUV with a sporty, aerodynamic body that the designers call "a sculptured work of pure dynamics & astonishing technology"
  • Some dramatic aspects:  windshield & windows blend into each other; LED head & tail lights are lightshows; Lidar mounted on the hood; dramatically inclined roofline; roof mounted wing & maximum use of sustainable materials throughout the EV
  • Mitsubishi & IED say the EV promises "astonishing performance" from its fully electric powertrain and all-wheel drive capability
  • This exceptional vehicle is a one-off design study that may, in some form, find its way into production, as many hope it will.

NEW RESEARCH: KIDS, EDUCATION & ROBOT TEACHERS

                         Source:  Concordia University & Nao


  • Thought provoking, innovative research from Concordia University showing how savvy, smart & intuitive young kids are about teachers & learning, whether it's a robot teacher or a human teacher
  • Test groups of 3- & 5-year-old pre-schoolers over Zoom meetings featured familiar objects like a book or ball that the robot teacher Nao named correctly but the human teacher, purposely for the research, did not
  • Unfamiliar objects & other robots were also used in the study
  • Initial testing indicates the 3-year-olds didn't differentiate between the two presentations - human & robotic
  • But, the 5-year-olds identified & accepted the more competent teacher as a robot plus they understood that the robot is mechanical not a human
  • Concordia researchers' conclusions:  "Pre-schoolers prefer to learn from a competent robot than an incompetent human"
  • Also, & very importantly, this research is a precursor example of how robotic tech can be useful as a tool to facilitate learning. 

For more news stories like this, Flight Path to the Future

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