Mar 31, 2022 | Food, Industrial Automation
Automation in the food industry is quite challenging due to the wide variation of food products and processes. Despite this, most large-scale food companies have successfully automated their processes and are reaping enormous benefits as a result. The COVID-19...
Mar 31, 2022 | Healthcare, Robots
Tiny machines that deliver therapeutic payloads to precise locations in the body are the stuff of science fiction. But some researchers are trying to turn them into a clinical reality. Cancer drugs usually take a scattergun approach. Chemotherapies inevitably hit...
Mar 31, 2022 | Healthcare, Robots
Inside of a large facility in the Dallas area, they fill thousands of prescriptions for customers who take medications to manage or treat high blood pressure, diabetes or other conditions. Each robot can fill 300 prescriptions in an hour, the company said — roughly...
Mar 31, 2022 | Delivery, Drones, Featured
Starting next year, the delivery company is testing out an autonomous cargo drone from Bay Area aircraft startup Elroy Air. The hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing plane (that means it doesn’t need a runaway and is more like a helicopter) will take...
Mar 31, 2022 | Drones, Featured
Special IT force of 30 soldiers on quad bikes is vital part of Ukraine’s defence, but forced to crowdfund for supplies One week into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia massed a 40-mile mechanised column in order to mount an overwhelming attack on Kyiv from the...
Mar 31, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence continues to best humans at games, this time the classic card game Bridge. Researchers from the French A.I. research firm NukkAI held a competition last week in Paris in which the startup’s A.I. defeated some of the world’s top Bridge...
Mar 31, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
A small maker of autonomous vehicle systems could be in hot water with U.S. highway safety regulators over how much time elapsed before it reported the crash of one of its test vehicles last fall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents...
Mar 31, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors is lining up the pieces to counter and attack its rivals in the electric-vehicle market. The Detroit giant recently started production of the long-awaited Lyriq SUV/crossover, the car meant to compete with Tesla’s Model Y SUV and Ford Mustang...
Mar 31, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation
A self-driving forklift may be the next wave of warehouse and factory innovations, saving companies on labor and, ideally, making industrial settings safer for everyone. Demand for logistics help is soaring, but forklift operators and other skilled workers are in...
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