Jan 27, 2022 | Delivery, Retail, Robots
U.K. retail tech company Ocado on Wednesday unveiled a suite of new products aimed at helping large grocery chains take on Amazon and a wave of new rapid grocery delivery start-ups. While Ocado is most well known for its online supermarket, a top focus for the company...
Jan 27, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Industrial Automation
With all the hype surrounding self-driving cars, some investors may be overlooking another sector that could be revolutionized by autonomous technology. In this segment of Backstage Pass, recorded on Jan. 5, Fool contributors Rachel Warren, Jason Hall, Trevor...
Jan 20, 2022 | Drones, Law Enforcement
A young company making drones designed to detect a loaded firearm and, if needed, get in between a shooter and a potential victim, is getting its first round of financing. Pan American Drone, founded by CEO Leah LaSalla, just raised $3 million in seed financing at a...
Jan 20, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Investment
Honda Motor today announced that, in December 2021, the company had invested in California based Helm.ai to strengthen its software technology development in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision technology. The automaker said Helm.ai had key...
Jan 20, 2022 | Aging, Robots
As a teenager in the early 2000s, Conor McGinn worked part-time in the nursing home where his grandmother lived. The employees did all they could to make her and other residents comfortable, but McGinn says her quality of life was never as good as it was before. “The...
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