Smart Mobility Today Podcast

Smart Mobility Today Podcast

Weekly review of news and information about Smart Mobility

Episodes

February 8, 2026 12 mins

This week’s show includes more news from space, technology at the winter Olympics, water security, and the Astemo Engineering Careers tour stopping for a day at Detroit’s Wayne State University.

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This week’s show includes news from space, as well as Portugal – plus EVs, energy, trucks, and robots building cars in Detroit.

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January 17, 2026 18 mins

This week’s show includes news from the Detroit Auto Show, EV incentives in California, investing in hydrogen, AI to the rescue, and investing in transit projects in the US -- plus my conversation from the Detroit Auto Show with Aisin Corporation's Ed Perosky.

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January 10, 2026 10 mins

This week’s show includes news about EV sales, drone first responders, more junk in space ... plus lots of AI in cars, on farms, and impacting our water.

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December 20, 2025 11 mins

This week’s show includes news about AI benefitting organizations, Ford pulling back on EVs, an autonomous solar-powered motorcycle, advances in agri-tech, and battery innovation.

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November 22, 2025 10 mins

Welcome to a special edition of Smart Mobility Today. As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today look at food innovation — ranging from smarter agriculture, to sustainability, food safety, robot delivery, and the battle against hunger worldwide.

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November 15, 2025 13 mins

The team is on the road working on a new audio and video series, so we are taking a second listen to an episode from April -- the focus was 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 large and growing companies. 

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November 1, 2025 11 mins

This week’s show includes news about aerial vehicles, super computing, auto industry layoffs, robots, drones, and the seat belt.

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October 25, 2025 9 mins

This week’s show includes news about robots, energy, flying vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and drones.

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October 18, 2025 10 mins

This week’s show includes news about the auto industry, autonomous vehicles in the ocean and on our streets, space junk, clean energy jobs, and transit in big cities.

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October 11, 2025 10 mins

This week’s show includes news about EVs, flying taxis, solar power, robotic swimmers, and the first AI-powered police cruiser.

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October 4, 2025 10 mins

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.

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September 27, 2025 9 mins

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

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September 20, 2025 11 mins

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

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September 7, 2025 10 mins

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.

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August 30, 2025 8 mins

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!

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August 9, 2025 12 mins

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.

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August 2, 2025 10 mins

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

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July 26, 2025 10 mins

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.

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July 19, 2025 9 mins

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.  

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