May 14, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Investment, Mobility
Even before the extra $750 million, Waymo’s funding round was among the largest, if not the largest, in multibillion-dollar investments around self-driving cars. General Motors’ Cruise unit raised $1.15 billion in May 2019, while Uber closed $1 billion from...
May 14, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
A drone service for delivering urgent medical supplies is being trialled on the Isle of Wight in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. The trial, which is funded by the Department for Transport and led by Solent Transport, is the first of its kind and aims to benefit...
May 14, 2020 | Featured, Robots & Drones
Thomas Roszak was working as a maintenance technician at Ocado’s giant warehouse in Hatfield when he received a very unusual assignment. His regular job involved repairing and maintaining the online supermarket’s automated sorting and packing system, which...
May 14, 2020 | Cyber Security, Featured
Cyber attacks have increased exponentially since the start of the pandemic, with AT&T Alien Labs Open Threat Exchange (OTX) finding 419,643 indicators of compromise (IOC) related to COVID-19 from January to March, with a 2,000% month-over-month increase from...
May 14, 2020 | Accessibility, Healthcare, Mobility, Robots & Drones
Axel Gerlich took his very first steps thanks to the robotics team at Avondale Middle School. When the COVID-19 outbreak threatened the project, two people stepped up to finish the project. Eileen Hohner, Axel’s therapist, said his new mobility kicks his progress into...
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