Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare, Robots
One of the biggest challenges and heartbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic comes when a COVID infected person is, by necessity, cut off from their family. Hospitals and long-term care facilities are restricting or in some cases prohibiting visitors in efforts to reduce...
Dec 17, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Battery packs for electric cars checked off a milestone this year — just an ever-so-slight ray of sunshine on what’s been a pretty gloomy 2020. For the first time, prices slid under $100 per kilowatt hour, and thorough analysis shows prices fell...
Dec 17, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
The Air Force allowed an artificial-intelligence algorithm to control sensor and navigation systems on a U2 Dragon Lady spy plane in a training flight Tuesday, officials said, marking what is believed to be the first known use of AI onboard a U.S. military aircraft....
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq and TASE: FRSX), an innovator in automotive vision systems, announced today that the Company will join the University of Michigan’s TechLab at Mcity 2021 startup cohort, managed by the Center for Entrepreneurship, to further...
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Mobility
After six years in business, Zoox – Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company – unveiled its first self-driving taxi. The firm on Monday took the wraps off of an electric “purpose-built robotaxi” that it developed for its future...
Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare, Robots, Work
For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a laborer lost a job. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a small but significant...
Dec 17, 2020 | Climate, Media
Critics have long attacked the oil industry for ad campaigns that they call “greenwashing” – telling people that policies or products are more environmentally friendly than they really are. But the ad agencies behind the campaigns have largely...
Dec 17, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
A clinical research study published in the British Journal of Surgery shows that fluorescence guidance (where a fluorescent chemical compound re-emits light with a long wavelength) can enable a colorectal surgeon to assess cancer tissues visually and with more...
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Defense
A university in South Carolina is teaming up with the U.S. Army to create models for self-driving military vehicles. The research project at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research in Greenville will be funded by a $18 million grant from the...
Dec 17, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Rideshare
Lyft announced on Wednesday that it will begin offering fully autonomous vehicles to its customers in 2023. In partnership with Motional, the cars will be available in a select group of U.S. cities that have yet to be announced. Motional has worked with...
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