Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare
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
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...
Apr 23, 2020 | Featured, Privacy, Smart Cities
Imagine if the ground could know if you’re walking on it. Imagine if that patch of sidewalk could tell how much you weigh, how fast you’re going, and where you’re headed. Imagine that road could determine exactly how many people are walking or running or biking or...
Apr 16, 2020 | Cyber Security
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would offer free cybersecurity protection tools to health care, humanitarian and human rights groups around the world following a spike in attempted hacking attempts due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company will offer groups...
Apr 16, 2020 | Privacy, Smart Cities
Smart cities can help us combat the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, in a growing number of countries, smart cities are doing just that. Governments and local authorities are using smart city technology, sensors and data to trace the contacts of people infected with the...
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