The U.S. Olympic bobsled team borrowed Honda's wind tunnel for test runs In West Liberty, Ohio, Team USA athletes boarded their bobsleds to gather data on aerodynamics. Honda's Ohio wind tunnel is 110,000 square feet and is typically used to measure vehicle aerodynamics. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the daredevil sport of bobsledding, intrepid athletes crammed into a narrow sleigh offer their fates to gravity as they hurl down a banked, twisty ice track. Races can be won or lost in one hundredth of a second. The sleds reach speeds of 90+ miles per hour and the athletes withstand forces up to 5g.

Honda's all-electric Prologue, a collaboration vehicle manufactured in tandem with GM, has been a serious hit for the brand. The Prologue was the best-selling non-Tesla EV in the US in Q4. Using Tesla as a touchstone seems telling, revealing Honda's intentions in the industry. However, Honda isn't limiting itself and plans to offer vehicles with an array of powertrain options--gas-powered, hybrid, and electric--to please a wide spectrum of customers. After all, as Honda America's vice president of sales Lance Woelfer asserts, "electrification is a marathon, not a sprint." "The road to electrification will have some twists and turns," concedes Jay Joseph, vice president of American Honda's Sustainability and Business Development business unit.

Honda has announced that its first original EV design, the Acura RSX, will use its proprietary Asimo operating system, according to The Verge. If those names sound familiar it's because RSX is a Honda nameplate from the early 2000s, and Asimo was a Honda project to build humanoid robots from the area, which was finally mothballed in 2018. Everything old is new again. Asimo OS was mentioned at CES 2025 alongside its 0 Series SUV and Saloon sedan EV concepts, but the Acura RSX will be the first production vehicle to get it. The operating system uses technology similar to its namesake robot to recognize external environments and understand people's intentions, according to the company.

Honda believes you want to talk to your car. The Japanese automaker this week shared new details about its 0 Series, its latest foray into electric vehicles. Two EVs, the 0 Saloon and the 0 SUV, will debut in 2026, with rounded, offbeat styling that whispers the future. The electric element is just a bit part of the innovation planned, Honda executives promised onstage at CES in Las Vegas. In a presentation during the show, Honda electrification head Katsushi Inoue emphasized the "new level of intelligent vehicle technology" built into the 0 series.

The futuristic looking concept electric vehicles that Honda had introduced at last year's CES are now much closer to becoming models you can actually buy. Honda has unveiled prototype versions of the 0 Series Saloon sedan and the 0 Series SUV at CES 2025. It also revealed that it will launch their production models next year in North America followed by Japan and Europe. The Honda 0 SUV will be introduced in the first half of 2026 and will be the first model in the lineup to enter production. It's a mid-size SUV that was originally presented as the Space-Hub concept and will be based company's newly developed dedicated EV architecture.

Honda is officially introducing two Series 0 electric vehicle prototypes at CES next year, and the company says they'll be available for purchase around the world sometime in 2026. The vehicles will be based on the futuristic-looking concepts the company presented at CES 2024, including a flagship model called the Saloon that featured an aerodynamic design. They'll be the company's first entries in the Series 0 lineup, which are also expected to feature an advanced driver-assisted system and, over the coming years, AI-powered automated driving features. In addition to presenting the prototypes themselves, Honda will also introduce a new proprietary vehicle operating system that the Series 0 cars will use. Plus, it will give you a look at the SoC powering the vehicles during the event. Honda trailed behind competitors in terms of making the transition to electric vehicles, but its first electric SUV, the Prologue, became one of the best-selling EVs in the US after its release in the country earlier this year.

This is the second time Godzilla and King Kong have made a film appearance together in recent times with 2021's Godzilla vs Kong being the first instalment. Both films were directed by Adam Wingard. Godzilla x Kong made back its budget of 135m in the first weekend when it took in 195m at cinemas, according to figures from Box Office Mojo. In total, it has sold 209m in tickets so far and has scored a very respectable 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes audience rating. The origins of Godzilla go back 70 years to the first 1954 film release in Tokyo, Japan – Gojira, directed by Ishiro Honda.

After a decade of rumors, secretive developments, executive entrances and exits, and pivots, Apple reportedly told employees yesterday that its car project, internally called "Project Titan," is no more. Those working on the technology of some four-odd hype cycles ago--electric, autonomous vehicles--will reportedly now focus on the vaunted advancement of the day, generative AI. The project wind-down was first reported by Bloomberg; TechCrunch reports the restructuring of Project Titan will likely include layoffs. "Prototypes are easy, volume production is hard, positive cash flow is excruciating," Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted a few years back. It's a lesson would-be car companies--as well as Tesla--seem to learn again and again.

Honda Motor said Thursday that it will conduct demonstration tests of a self-driving electric vehicle and a logistic robot in Ibaraki Prefecture from mid-February. The four-seater EV, named CiKoMa, can travel at speeds of up to 20 kph. It will transport people between a michi no eki roadside rest station in the city of Joso and a strawberry-picking farm 850 meters away for free. At the farm, people can take a walk with the WaPOCHI robot, which follows them by identifying their silhouette. It can carry cargoes weighing up to 30 kilograms. Honda aims to collect data from the tests for use in product development.

Epistemic emotions, such as curiosity and interest, drive the inquiry process. This study proposes a novel formulation of epistemic emotions such as curiosity and interest using two types of information gain generated by the principle of free energy minimization: Kullback-Leibler divergence(KLD) from Bayesian posterior to prior, which represents free energy reduction in recognition, and Bayesian surprise (BS), which represents the expected information gain by Bayesian prior update. By applying a Gaussian generative model with an additional uniform likelihood, we found that KLD and BS form an upward-convex function of surprise (minimized free energy and prediction error), similar to Berlyne's arousal potential functions, or the Wundt curve. We consider that the alternate maximization of BS and KLD generates an ideal inquiry cycle to approach the optimal arousal level with fluctuations in surprise, and that curiosity and interest drive to facilitate the cyclic process. We exhaustively analyzed the effects of prediction uncertainty (prior variance) and observation uncertainty (likelihood variance) on the peaks of the information gain function as optimal surprises. The results show that greater prediction uncertainty, meaning an open-minded attitude, and less observational uncertainty, meaning precise observation with attention, are expected to provide greater information gains through a greater range of exploration. The proposed mathematical framework unifies the free energy principle of the brain and the arousal potential theory to explain the Wundt curve as an information gain function and suggests an ideal inquiry process driven by epistemic emotions.