Photo Credit: Teijin Ltd. Teijin Ltd. (Tokoyo, Japan) announced on Feb. 2 that the company and its joint development partner Applied Electric Vehicles (AEV, Melbourne, Australia) have achieved a major milestone toward a shared vision for zero-emission future mobility with the delivery of a production-ready, one-piece structural shell for Applied EV’s zero-emission robotic vehicle platform, the Launched as a joint development initiative in 2019 to establish a technological foundation for supporting multipurpose zero-emission vehicles for a future society, the Blanc Robot is a programmable, autonomous electric vehicle (EV) platform, designed and engineered by AEV. Built around a core of electronics and mechatronics, running purely on software, it can integrate with many autonomous systems, carry a range of vehicle bodies and serve many purposes, including industrial, delivery and surveillance applications. The