Apr 29, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured
Ford said Tuesday it will delay until 2022 plans to launch an autonomous vehicle service, as the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the company to rethink its go-to-market strategy. The news was shared as part of Ford’s quarterly earnings, which was released after the...
Apr 23, 2020 | Collaboration, Cyber Security
Zoom, the videoconferencing application that has captured the zeitgeist of 2020, has announced it will be rolling out a new version supporting advanced encryption to provide increased protection for its users. The firm shot to prominence in March as millions of people...
Apr 23, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare, Machine Learning
SARS-COV-2 has upended modern health care, leaving health systems struggling to cope. Addressing a fast-moving and uncontrolled disease requires an equally efficient method of discovery, development and administration. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning...
Apr 23, 2020 | Machine Learning
The influx of refugees into the EU over the past five years has brought many challenges for its member states. But eastern EU countries have particularly felt the impact, in part because their economies are less developed than their western counterparts. However in...
Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
A Connecticut police department said it plans to begin testing a “pandemic drone” that could detect whether a person 190 feet away has a fever or is coughing. But an expert on viruses and a privacy advocate question whether such technology can work and, if...
Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot is already in use at one Boston hospital to help with coronavirus treatment. The company now has ambitious plans to expand use of its robots to assist healthcare workers during the...
Apr 23, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Smart Manufacturing
Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators, might be further along than many autonomous vehicles. In fact, CEO Noah Ready-Campbell insists you’ll see autonomous vehicles in...
Apr 23, 2020 | Blockchain, Business, Justice
At a sewing workshop in the South Indian town of Chittapur, a seamstress named Halima has spent much of her day cutting a new blouse pattern out of dyed cotton fabrics, embroidering the sleeves by hand, and then stitching the seams together before shipping the entire...
Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Car Sharing
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
Apr 23, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Robots & Drones
Aiways believes something like this robot could be a game changer for EV charging, which today is rather cumbersome in public. Stations go down, payment isn’t totally seamless and the stations themselves aren’t exactly mobile. Instead, CARL could wander...
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