The Innovation Report
San Francisco Reverses Approval of Lethal Police Robots
In November, the San Francisco Police Department proposed approving the use of remote-controlled robots with deadly force. This was after a law came into effect requiring California officials to define the authorized use of military-grade equipment. It would have...
Virgin Orbit: First UK Space Launch from Cornwall Faces Delay
We're going to have to wait a little longer to see the first ever orbital space launch from UK soil. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company had pencilled in next Wednesday for the historic Cornwall flight, but it is now going to slip until after Christmas. The...
Apple Scales Back Ambitious AV Debut
Apple has reportedly scaled back the debut of its self-driving electric vehicle, delaying the car's targeted launch date to 2026. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reported Monday that the project — known as Project Titan — has been in limbo...
How Blue Tech Innovations Improve Our Oceans
Throughout history, we have relied on our oceans for food, jobs, recreation, and even the air we breathe. But this relationship has been one-sided for centuries, as we have taken resources from our oceans with no regard for their natural limits Blue Tech is the...
Investment in Agri Tech Startups Jumps 2-fold to $4.6B in FY22
Investment in technology startups in the agriculture and food sector jumped over twofold to USD 4.6 billion during the last fiscal on the back of higher inflow in restaurant marketplace and e-grocery, according to a report by AgFunder and Omnivore....
Four Drone Market Trends for Mindful Entrepreneurs
Over $500 billion. This is the fantastic revenue figure predicted for the drone market by 2030. And considering its development pace, I presume this forecast to come true. Drones are already being used to improve a variety of tasks and industries: monitoring the...
AI and Robotics to Help Early Infection Detection
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs) earlier. The FEATHER project aims to reduce the number of serious...
Competitors Chip Away at Tesla’s US EV Share
New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla's dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about 65% of...
How NASA and Europe Will Bring Mars Samples Back to Earth
A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth. Key moments of the unprecedented and highly complex Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission are detailed in a 106-second NASA/ESA video(opens in...
Why Better Mapping Technology is Critical to AVs
Autonomous cars find the way to their destination using a number of critical technologies, including some version of a global position system and a central brain to interpret that and other data. But many of those technologies are not reliable or accurate enough...
