Feb 25, 2021 | Healthcare, Robots
Robots are serving drinks in the bars of Seville to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Spot, a robot created by Boston Dynamics and partner Spain-based Macco Robotics, delivers beers to customers, therefore minimising contact and maintaining virus safety measures....
Feb 25, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles, Weather
One of the issues of LiDAR sensors is the degradation of its performance in rain. If a LiDAR beam intersects with a raindrop at a short distance from the transmitter, the raindrop can reflect enough of the beam back to the receiver, therefore detecting the raindrop as...
Feb 25, 2021 | Healthcare, Robots
Thirty-seven UVD Robots®, originally designed to fight hospital acquired infections (HAI) in healthcare facilities, kills 99.99% of pathogens in ten minutes without the use of chemicals. The autonomous robots will supplement existing sanitation efforts throughout the...
Feb 25, 2021 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric-car maker Fisker said it will work with Apple supplier Foxconn to produce more than 250,000 vehicles a year beginning in late 2023, sending its shares up 18%. The deal, codenamed “Project PEAR” (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution),...
Feb 25, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called on the US government to fast track development of emerging technology including artificial intelligence (AI) to catch up to China’s lead. The United States is “one or two years ahead of China, not five or 10” and...
Feb 25, 2021 | Defense, Drones, Featured
The US military has invested in a prototype energy beam weapon designed to zap drones in the sky. This week, the US Air Force said the prototype, dubbed the Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR), is a “directed energy” weapon...
Feb 25, 2021 | Drones, Facial Recognition, Privacy
An Israeli biometrics startup called AnyVision with ties to Israel’s military has applied for a U.S. patent on technology that tells drones how to maneuver to capture better facial recognition images of people on the ground. Facial recognition technology has...
Feb 25, 2021 | Government, Telecommunications
Huawei, currently banned by the U.S. from buying American-made chips, is hoping that a new Executive Order could open the door for a reevaluation on that Trump administration policy – which was designed to cut off supply for Chinese companies deemed a security...
Feb 25, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate
The solution to the world’s climate change problems could be under our feet, as soil has the potential to store more than three times the amount of carbon in the atmosphere But about 45% of the Earth’s soil is used for agriculture, and most farmland has lost up to 30%...
Feb 18, 2021 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Uncategorized
ord Motor Co on Wednesday said its car lineup in Europe will be all-electric by 2030 as the US automaker races to get ahead of CO2 emissions targets and looming bans in some countries on fossil fuel vehicles. The carmaker said it would invest $1 billion over the next...
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