Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Kobe, Japan, is turning to robots to help increase the city’s PCR testing capabilities for Covid-19. The initiative, set to go live in October 2020, is a collaboration between Kobe city and medical robot manufacturer Medicaroid. The idea is to reduce the risk of...
May 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
As restrictions related to COVID-19 gradually ease, developers and service providers in the autonomous delivery space are scrambling to eat as much market share as possible in the still-limited locations where they’re authorized. But even robotic delivery, which...
Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
AMERICANS CHOOSING TO —or forced to—stay inside during the Covid-19 pandemic are leaning heavily on food delivery. Instacart sales soared 98 percent, and Amazon Fresh sales 68 percent, in March, compared with February, according to the consumer...
Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
What looks like a rolling picnic cooler stops at the crosswalk, waits for a car to pass and then navigates its way at a leisurely pace down the sidewalk in suburban Washington. Three blocks away, Jake Williams and his three-year-old daughter Emilia wait for the...
Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Drone delivery is one of the business ideas that suddenly makes a lot more sense in the age of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean you can get pizza airlifted to your home yet. In a few limited ways, operators are stepping in to help businesses limit human-to-human...
Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Google parent company Alphabet sad Wednesday that it’s using its Wing drones to deliver food and medicine during the coronavirus pandemic. Alphabet’s Wing subsidiary said it’s seen a “dramatic” increase in customers...
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