Stephen McDonell China correspondent Watch as the BBC rides on board a driverless truck They rumble down the highway between Beijing and Tianjin port: big lorries, loaded up and fully able to navigate themselves. Sure, there is a safety driver in the seat, as per government regulations, but these lorries don’t require them, and many

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KINGSTON, R.I. – June 6, 2025 – Growing up in York, Maine, Derek Murphy ’20 was fascinated with the idea of living and working overseas, maybe for a global organization like the World Bank or the United Nations.  “International affairs and trends have a direct impact on our lives, often in ways we don’t realize,”

Over the past century, the automotive industry has undergone a major manufacturing revolution roughly every 40 years. From Ford’s introduction of the assembly line to the rise of lean manufacturing, and later the advancement of platformization and modularization, each wave of innovation has profoundly reshaped the industry’s landscape (figure 1). More than 40 years have