Jul 25, 2019 | Smart Cities
Location is at the heart of a smart city project. At a time when cities are grappling with numerous challenges like lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion, air pollution, and ageing population, some of the smartest cities in the world have blended location...
Jul 25, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
Miniature remote controlled cars have proved to be a crowd pleaser at track and field throwing events, but for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Toyota Motor Corp is upping the game with a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers: pint-sized, self-driving A.I. robot cars....
Jul 25, 2019 | Business, Featured, Industrial Automation, Venture Capital
Silicon Valley industrial robotics startup Fetch Robotics has raised $46 million in a series C round of funding led by Fort Ross Ventures, with participation from Softbank Capital, Sway Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Redwood...
Jul 25, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE MOON LANDING, A NEW IRISH TIMES SERIES LOOKS ON WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR US AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS. HERE, PART 1 EXPLORES HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES IN THE NEXT HALF-CENTURY At its crudest, most reductive, we could sum...
Jul 25, 2019 | Business, Cyber Security
We are midway through 2019, and automotive hacks continue to rise. The global market for connected cars is expected to grow by 270% by 2022, with more than 125 million passenger cars with embedded connectivity forecast to ship worldwide by 2022. The amount and quality...
Jul 25, 2019 | Business, Featured
United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N), the world’s largest package delivery firm, on Tuesday unveiled its drone delivery subsidiary and said it has applied for the Federal Aviation Administration certifications needed to expand the business....
Jul 25, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
It’s not a common occurrence to find yourself contemplating the same news two weeks in a row when dealing in the fast-paced engineering world of the auto industry, but that is exactly the situation I find myself in this week. GM announced yesterday that it is delaying...
Jul 18, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
The last portion of any project is usually the bit that takes the most time and expertise. You have plodded your way through the things that had easy answers even if they were technically complicated. It is generally impossible to calculate the remaining work load...
Jul 18, 2019 | Internet of Things
Twenty years ago, PCs and laptops were the only connected objects; for a long time, there were no other devices with the capacity to send and receive information over a network. In a matter of years, everything changed and thousands of devices became connected. From...
Jul 18, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Security
Any connected device can be compromised. When we think of vulnerable devices, we immediately think of our phones, laptops, IoT devices, and even enterprise databases. We are moving into a world where our transportation system – cars, trucks, traffic lights, and...
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