Aug 15, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
UPS has had autonomous trucking startup TuSimple hauling cargo for it between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, since May as part of a newly publicized partnership between the two companies. The delivery giant made the announcement today alongside the news that its venture...
Aug 15, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars are a shared ambition among Google, Tesla, Apple, Uber and Lyft, among other automotive, tech and ridesharing companies. For Uber and Lyft specifically, it’s a matter of cutting costs. However, fiscal expediency is not the main...
Aug 15, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business
With Uber and Lyft both announcing large quarterly losses last week, it’s clear they have a long way to go to reach profitability, and analysts are increasingly focused on the long-term viability of the industry. One potential pathway is the advent and utilization of...
Aug 15, 2019 | Internet of Things, Smart Manufacturing
As a manufacturing company that is looking to leverage industrial Internet of Things for smart manufacturing, or, AI-enabled connected asset offerings, companies are faced with a plethora of platform choices. Wading through the marketing talk and figuring out what...
Aug 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
DeepMind, likely the world’s largest research-focused artificial intelligence operation, is losing a lot of money fast, more than $1 billion in the past three years. DeepMind also has more than $1 billion in debt due in the next 12 months. Does this mean that AI is...
Aug 15, 2019 | Smart Cities
Traffic congestion is rising in cities around the world. Contributing factors include expanding urban populations, aging infrastructure, inefficient and uncoordinated traffic signal timing and a lack of real-time data. The impacts are significant. Traffic data...
Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Mobility
Taking inspiration from the traditional cane, a team of researchers from Columbia Engineering in New York has come up with a LiDAR-enabled robotic assistant which offers light-touch support for the mobility-impaired. Dubbed Canine, the device improves the user’s...
Aug 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
When the robot revolution comes, the weapons robots use to destroy us could be cobbled together from the scraps of our own society. You’ve been warned. More realistically, though, researchers like a group at Georgia Tech are trying to figure out how robots can help us...
Aug 15, 2019 | Blockchain, Featured
Walmart has reasserted its interest in blockchain-backed drones with a recent patent application. The commerce giant filed for an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain” in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishing...
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