Feb 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Business
Tech giant IBM cemented its patent leadership in the United States, with over 9,000 received patents, including in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, in 2019. With the 9,626 patents secured, IBM became the company that received the most patents in the...
Feb 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven revealed last week during the Re-Work A.I. conference in San Francisco that it had opened an experimental cashierless store in Dallas in November. Shahmeer Mirza, a 7-Eleven machine learning engineer, said people can pick up what they...
Feb 5, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
The global autonomous vehicle industry is an $8 trillion market opportunity, according to General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise. Dan Ammann, CEO of the GM majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, on Wednesday said that valuation includes autonomous...
Jan 30, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability
Around the world, the appetite for seafood continues to grow. Per-capita consumption of fish products has gone from 22 pounds annually in the 1960s to more than 46 pounds today. With marine environments under increasing pressure and wild fisheries unable to satisfy...
Jan 30, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Mobility
As part of its planned $740 million campus development project in Detroit’s Corktown, Ford is planning a vehicle testing site behind the once-abandoned Michigan Central Station. The land was already earmarked to serve as home base for the company’s latest mobility...
Jan 30, 2020 | 5G, Blockchain
The biggest topic in the mobile industry over the last few years has been 5G. In an industry that has been starved for innovation in this interregnum between the launch of the iPhone and the full-scale integration of next-generation technologies like augmented...
Jan 30, 2020 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors will invest $2.2 billion to overhaul its Detroit-Hamtramck facility to be the automaker’s first fully dedicated assembly plant for electric vehicles, which will be powered by battery cells manufactured in Lordstown. The automaker Monday announced the...
Jan 30, 2020 | Cyber Security, Government, Robots & Drones
The Interior Department has grounded its fleet of more than 800 drones, citing potential cybersecurity risks and the need to support U.S. drone production – suggesting the move is aimed at least in part at China, a leading drone producer. Interior Secretary David...
Jan 30, 2020 | Robots & Drones
For the roboticist who has everything, here’s something new: a soft robot hand that sweats. Designed to handle scenarios where long operating hours might lead to a robot overheating and its performance degrading, this three-fingered gripper stays cool by borrowing one...
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