Feb 3, 2022 | Aerial Vehicles, Energy, Robots
A small robot with wings like an insect can fly and generate more power than a similarly-sized animal in nature. Most flying robots, whether they use wings or propellers, have motors and gears – and transmission systems to connect the components together, but these...
Jan 27, 2022 | Delivery, Robots
A prolific early contender in the autonomous delivery race has forged a partnership with an authentication company. The reason? There’s a big market for the delivery of age-restricted items. There’s a larger market story behind this partnership. The...
Jan 27, 2022 | Delivery, Robots
San Francisco-based Starship Technologies has launched on-demand food deliveries on the Southern Methodist University campus with a fleet of 16 autonomous robots. The six-wheeled robots will deliver meals from nine campus eateries: Cinco Taco, Einstein Bros Bagels,...
Jan 27, 2022 | Delivery, Retail, Robots
U.K. retail tech company Ocado on Wednesday unveiled a suite of new products aimed at helping large grocery chains take on Amazon and a wave of new rapid grocery delivery start-ups. While Ocado is most well known for its online supermarket, a top focus for the company...
Jan 20, 2022 | Aging, Robots
As a teenager in the early 2000s, Conor McGinn worked part-time in the nursing home where his grandmother lived. The employees did all they could to make her and other residents comfortable, but McGinn says her quality of life was never as good as it was before. “The...
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