Smart Mobility Today Podcast

I am thankful to work with a great team and to have so many people listening to and sharing our show. And I thought it would be fun and informative to pull some audio from our archive. Please enjoy our very first show – it was April of 2020, the pandemic was in its early days, and we decided to produce a weekly podcast from the isolation of our home studios.

This week’s stories include European EV and robotics markets, the future of engineering careers, hydrogen, robots, and flight: passenger planes, autonomous helicopters, and bird-like robots.

Global Auto Mobility met in October with student groups, associations, and teams – plus an expert panel of MSU professors – to discuss how industry, higher education, and students can collaborate to prepare for the future of engineering.

This week’s stories include AI-powering naval ships, AVs doing donuts, a google maps upgrade, and more SpaceX satellites in space.

This week’s stories include news about flying cars, robots in the sea and in space, EV-charging streetlights, and technology helping workers with disabilities.

This week’s stories include hydrogen-powered EVs, battery recycling, shipping and automation, AI news, and satellites in an increasingly crowded orbit.

This week’s stories focus on flying cars, advances in robotics, AV and EV news, plus satellites, drones, and getting voters to the polls in November.

This week’s stories focus on AI leadership, electric trucks, innovation in engineering education, underwater drones, and satellites tracking climate change.

This week’s show looks at autonomous underwater vehicles powered by AI, millions of robots working in factories, and flying cars coming next year.

This week’s stories focus on hydrogen vehicles, AV manufacturing, drone ships, mushrooms powering robots, and AI detecting cancer.

This week’s stories focus on EV charging, wind, more news from space, robots building solar farms, and spy drones used to combat drought.

This week’s stories focus on Aerial flight, sideways-driving AVs, Agriculture, Space, Smart Cities, and a Quiet Cruise in Detroit.

This week’s stories focus on autonomous boat taxis, electric bikes and scooters, jobs for humans and robots, and energy from the sun and from fossils.

This week’s stories focus on EV cars, trucks and tanks, addressing carbon in the climate, robots making our lives better, and roads in Michigan.

This week’s news focuses on hydrogen trucks, solar-powered planes, finding water on the moon, and automated transit for people with disabilities.

This week’s news focuses on aerial mobility, hydrogen power, edible robots, the growth in smart cities, and limestone.

This week’s stories include news about robots, EVs, AV safety, and green hydrogen.

This week’s stories include news about Level 3 AVs, cheaper EVs, solar power, flying cars, and clownfish robots.

This week’s stories include news about auto industry challenges, exploring Titan, 6G, and a solar-powered yacht.

This week’s stories include news about EVs, EV charging, advances in alternative energy, AI, and the eclipse.

This week’s stories include news about AVs and EVs, lots of AI, cleaning the oceans, biking in Michigan, and the future of food delivery.

This week’s stories include surveys and studies about AV confidence, EVs and the climate, hydrogen and robotics business announcements in Michigan, plus technology and the workplace.

This week’s stories include sailing robots, 911 drones, AI and cancer treatment, plus beer brewed by robots.

This week’s stories include AV and EV news, AI and humanoid robots, flying cars, and robots shoveling snow.

This week’s stories focus on autonomous racing, autonomous safety, military ships and planes, black box data, smart cities, and robotic worms.

This week’s stories focus on EVs, battery technology advancements, AV safety, smart cities, and space.

This week’s stories focus on a road-based charging system, EV reliability, robots and the ocean climate, satellites, more AV problems, and AI-powered warfare.

This week’s stories focus on autonomous trucking, hydrogen-powered trucking, AI in the farm bill, 3D-printed robots, plus EVs and the pope.

This week’s stories include auto industry bumps in the road for EV adoption and AV testing, plus robotic dogs, drone delivery of medicine, and this week’s walks in space.

This week’s stories include Auto Industry strike news, as well as stories about AV safety, drone delivery, autonomous boating, a google maps update, and the impact of robotic co-workers.

This week’s stories include EV and AV news, advancements in smart cities deployment, ways that robots are changing the world of work, and the increasingly busy space above and around the earth.

This week’s stories cover the ongoing turmoil in the auto industry while innovation on AVs, EVs, Aerial Vehicles, and robotics continues. Also more about space junk and the future of broadband.

This week’s show looks at news about EVs, turmoil in the auto industry, and the future of gas stations, air mobility, space exploration, and solar power. Plus, Nathan Keelan speaks with Hitachi Astemo’s Lee Aho about electric and autonomous vehicles, what’s new, and what’s ahead.

This week’s stories focus on EVS, recycled batteries, space junk, delivery drones, green hydrogen, and robots in our schools and in our homes.

This week’s stories focus a lot on EV batteries, more concern about China and technology, more flying cars, plus robots that fight fires and weed gardens.

This week’s stories focus a lot on electric and autonomous trucks, a big announcement from a group of auto companies, a couple of different stories concerning the Chinese auto industry, plus robots and space!

This week’s stories focus a lot on electric and autonomous trucks and their impact on the trucking industry, plus EV batteries, autonomous sailing and – of course – legos!

This week’s stories focus a lot on advances in autonomous vehicles, EV batteries, drone delivery, and AI.

This week’s stories focus a lot on advances in EV driving range, a new prediction about AVs, flying cars, robotic conducting, and fourth of July drones.

This week’s stories focus a lot on EV charging, states and politicians weighing in, satellites cleaning the air, robots watching videos, and nature-influenced drone design.

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we focused on EVs globally, the speed of EV charging, solar, wind, and recycling – electric air mobility, robotic dogs and robotic medical devices This week’s stories focus a lot on Autonomous and Electric Vehicles, plus safer air taxis, and life-saving technologies applied to EVs as well as surgical robots.

This week’s stories focus a lot on EVs globally, the speed of EV charging, solar, wind, and recycling – electric air mobility, robotic dogs and robotic medical devices.

This week’s stories focus on AI, robot labor, EV charging, battery production, and imaging in deep space and deep in the oceans. Plus Nathan Keelan talks with Hitachi Astemo’s Jim Castellano about electrification – where we have been and where we are going.

This week’s stories focus on many different energy sources ranging from wind to hydrogen, updates on EV adoption globally, and some interesting ways robots are being used to explore distant moons, or our brains.

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we looked at innovators in the headlines, AI keeping us safe, autonomous grocery delivery, and robots taking care of people. This week’s stories focus on EVs, EV charging, Robots, Mobility in Detroit, and AI reading your mind.

This week’s show was first posted December 29 and was a look back on the progress we made during 2022 in finding answers to one question: how are we going to power mobility? This episode serves a great reminder of how important this work is, especially as we rapidly transition to EVs. This important conversation will be the focus of our upcoming expert panel morning event at Lawrence Technology University on May 24. Get your ticket at https://globalautomobility.com/

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we focused on renewable energy, advances in drone technology, and some unexpected side effects of EV and AV adoption. This week we look at innovators in the headlines, AI keeping us safe, autonomous grocery delivery, and robots taking care of people.

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we focused on renewable energy, a call for caution concerning AI, and some interesting ways robots and drones help us get things done. This week’s show includes more news about renewable energy, advances in drone and robotics technology, and some surprising side effects of AV and EV adoption.

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we focused on EV news, 6G leadership in India, more space junk, and AI writing scripts in Hollywood. This week’s show includes news about renewable energy, some caution being expressed about AI, and lots of interesting ways robots and drones help us get thing things done.

Previously on Smart Mobility Today, we focused on the downsides of an EV, an intelligence field that is NOT artificial, robots fighting climate change, and a drone coming to the rescue. This week’s show includes news about EVs and AVs, 6G in India, satellites blocking the view, and AI writing scripts.