GREENSBORO, NC– Last week, Honda Aircraft Co. broke ground on its 82,000-square-foot building here–a $15.5 million expansion to the company’s Research and Development campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced two winners for the final prize of the American Inventions Made Onshore (AIM Onshore) Prize Competition.

STUTTGART, Germany—Porsche recently unveiled its new Bioconcept-Car, built primarily with organic materials and help from researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, who have discovered how to reduce component weight by substituting with carbon fibers.

WASHINGTON—The latest Bureau of Economic Analysis data find that U.S. manufacturers produced $2.3852 trillion worth of goods in the first quarter of 2019, up from $2.3845 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2018.

BELMONT, CA—Earlier this month, Volkswagen rolled out its Type 20 concept microbus at its Engineering Center California. The vehicle features parts from the past, as well as those made with AI design software.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—GreenPower Motor Co. Inc., a designer, manufacturer, and distributer of all-electric buses, has announced it achieved a revenue of $6.1 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, an increase of 73 percent over the previous year, and the largest in the company’s history.

JACKSONVILLE, FL—Only four months after JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. opened its solar photovoltaic manufacturing facility here, the company has received the Intersolar Award 2019 in the photovoltaics category.

MARTORELL, Spain—Engineers at a car factory here are using drones to deliver parts to an assembly line. The autonomous aircraft are currently used to transport air bags and steering wheels.

PALO ALTO, CA—Engineers at Tesla Inc. have developed a new wiring architecture that enables more robot automation in the manufacturing process and uses fewer materials.

LONDON—During the past decade, collaborative robots have taken the manufacturing world by storm. ABI Research predicts that the human friendly machines will generate $6 billion in annual revenue by 2027.