Smart Mobility Today Podcast

This week’s show includes news about robots in China, health news for astronauts, funding cuts for clean energy, and ways the auto industry is working in the face of decreasing EV tax credits and increasing tariffs.

This week’s show includes news about AI in the auto industry, nuclear-powered space travel, robots, and clean emission transportation in Michigan.

This week’s show includes news about flying cars, EV curb charging, robots harvesting strawberries, and the medical use of spider-like robots.

This week’s show includes news from Japanese auto makers, and more about robots, autonomous serial vehicles, advances in 6g, and using drones to protect cattle.

In recognition of Labor Day, and while the Smart Mobility Team enjoys a last weekend of summer, we are sharing an episode from three years ago this week. It is amazing how much work goes into innovation, how much things have changed, and how much they have stayed the same. Enjoy!

This week's show features a favorite episode from our Astemo Future Engineering Careers Tour. Global Auto Mobility met at Michigan State University with student groups, associations, and teams – and we heard a lot about how their involvement is preparing today's students for the future of engineering careers.

This week’s show focuses on robots, advancements in auto technology, energy, the moon, and using AI to aid first responders.

This week’s show focuses on tariffs and the automotive industry, the rise of Physical AI, self-charging robots, and efforts to combat plastic pollution.

This week’s show focuses on automotive tech breakthroughs in Europe, a big industry jobs project lost in the US, robots riding the subway in China, and finding your next home with the assistance of drones.  

This week, we are looking back at our April 2025 show from the Astemo Engineering Careers Tour at University of Michigan Dearborn. Global Auto Mobility met with student leaders to discuss how they are preparing for the future of engineering. Get a glimpse of their enhusiams and energy. Featuring Savannah Welch (Human Centered Engineering Design), Regina Arriola (Bioengineering), Perla Fares (Biome...

This week, we are featuring the March 2025 show from our Astemo Engineering Careers Tour at University of Michigan Dearborn. This expert panel discussed how industry, higher education, and students collaborate to prepare for the future of engineering. We heard from Assistant Dean John Cristiano, as well as Professors Areen Alsaid, Alireza Mohammadi, and Samir Rawashdeh. 

This week’s show focuses on taxis in the air and on the ground -- plus space, 6G, drones, and flexible robots.

This week’s show focuses on hydrogen power, delivery robots, AI-powered manufacturing, rare earth elements, moon news, and advances in vision sensing technology.

This week’s show focuses on more auto industry challenges in the US and globally, improvements in telecommunications technology, and making robots more human-like.. for the benefit of humans.

This week’s show focuses on AI and shipping, aerial mobility, more auto industry tariff challenges, barrier-free transit, and smart recycling.

This week’s show focuses on mobility in cities, tariff-driven auto industry challenges, bug-sized robots, running robots, and a celestial birthday. Plus an interview with Yazaki North America about the challenges of AI development and how they work with growing companies.

With the support of Astemo, Global Auto Mobility met with student groups, associations, and teams – plus an expert panel of University of Michigan Dearborn Engineering students – to discuss how they are preparing for the future of engineering. We heard from Savannah Welch (Human Centered Engineering Design), Regina Arriola (Bioengineering), Perla Fares (Biomedical Engineering), Jakub Wittrock (Ele...

This week’s show focuses on air mobility, ocean and agri-tech, the rise of robots, EV industry challenges, and more from our Astemo Engineering Careers Tour.

With the support of Astemo, Global Auto Mobility met with student groups, associations, and teams – plus an expert panel of University of Michigan Dearborn professors – to discuss how industry, higher education, and students can collaborate to prepare for the future of engineering. We heard from Assistant Dean John Cristiano, as well as Professors Areen Alsaid, Alireza Mohammadi, and Samir Rawashd...

This week’s show focuses on robotic sight, autonomous trucking, EV industry intrigue, the power grid, and threats to dark skies.

This week we are featuring more from our Astemo Engineering Careers Tour: talking with MSU engineering students from the Formula Racing Team.

This week’s show focuses on flying cars, fungi-tracking robots, a yacht that makes hydrogen, EV charging, and lots of AI news. Plus: we are featuring more from our Astemo Engineering Careers series: talking with MSU engineering students from the Formula racing team.

This week’s show focuses on hydrogen, more space news, robots exploring the oceans, plus autonomous delivery and shipping.

This week’s show focuses on hydrogen, more on EVs, space, smart cities, and an update from our Astemo Future of Engineering University Tour.

This week’s show focuses on EV adoption, AVs and smart cities, and energy for robots and jets, as well as the diamond of all batteries.