26 September 2026: Smart Mobility Today

This week’s show includes a distance record on Mars, EV sales, a less global auto industry, Amazon robots, and AI models making copies … of themselves.

This week’s show covers energy options, energy costs, autonomous space travel, renaming AI, robots on wheels, and protecting the Great Lakes.

With our publisher and host both out all week, the production crew decided to create a mashup of memorable podcast audio. How many headlines can you hear? Its great when our creative team takes over. Thank you Detroit Media Productions! Enjoy

This week’s show looks at automotive industry innovation and uncertainty, a lot of robotics news, automation, deep space, and a conversation with Samantha Sklarski from Astemo (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthasklarski/) talking about her involvement, and the company’s support for our Engineering Careers Tour series.  #smartmobilitytoday #globalautomobility

This week’s show looks at flying cars, humanoid robots, autonomous trucks,  a moon crash, hydrogen generating electricity, and police drones in Kalamazoo.

This week’s show looks at space, the Great Lakes, AI helping scientists as well as AI hacking other AI, and challenges for the auto industry.

This week’s show looks at autonomous technologies in the air and in the sea, accessibility in autonomous technologies, pulling hydrogen from plastic, and a visit with the Sunseeker Solar Car Project at Western Michigan University.

This week’s show looks at robots in the auto industry, smart manufacturing, a call to ban killer robots, and news from the Great Lakes. Plus, Cindy talks with Jon Isenberg from Calysto Group about AI, and smart cyber security practices.

This week’s show looks at powering EVs, space manufacturing, drones at the FIFA world cup, and more from the Engineering Careers Tour at Detroit’s Wayne State University.

This week’s show looks at aerial vehicles, AI robot training, data centers, EV adoption, and green hydrogen.