The Innovation Report
Should Robots Be Able To Deliver Booze?
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...
Starship Technologies Launches Robot Food Deliveries at SMU
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,...
Ocado Unveils Lighter Robots to Take on Amazon
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...
Could Industrial Autonomous Vehicles Outpace Autonomous Cars By 2025?
With all the hype surrounding self-driving cars, some investors may be overlooking another sector that could be revolutionized by autonomous technology. In this segment of Backstage Pass, recorded on Jan. 5, Fool contributors Rachel Warren, Jason Hall, Trevor...
Startup Enabling Drones to ‘Stop Bullets’ by Detecting and Disrupting Active Shooters Raises $3 Million
A young company making drones designed to detect a loaded firearm and, if needed, get in between a shooter and a potential victim, is getting its first round of financing. Pan American Drone, founded by CEO Leah LaSalla, just raised $3 million in seed financing at a...
Honda Invests in Helm.Ai to Strengthen Software Technology Development
Honda Motor today announced that, in December 2021, the company had invested in California based Helm.ai to strengthen its software technology development in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision technology. The automaker said Helm.ai had key...
Robots Rise to Meet the Challenge of Caring for Old People
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...
Michigan’s Place in the Future of Mobility and EVs is Being Secured
Our society is in the midst of a once-in-a-century mobility revolution and this past year will be remembered as a landmark year for the state of Michigan. To meet the urgency and ambition of our automotive partners — who stepped up with billions of dollars in new...
35,000 Mangrove Trees Planted in Abu Dhabi Using Drones
More than 35,000 mangrove seeds have been planted in the Mirfa lagoon in Abu Dhabi using highly innovative drone planting technology, authorities have announced. The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and ENGIE, a global energy company, said on Thursday that the...
EVs Too Expensive for Many; Retrofitting Could Be the Answer
Europeans on average earnings could soon be forced out of their cars and on to the bus by environmental rules effectively banning sales of cheap new internal combustion engines (ICE) in favor of unaffordable electric cars; but help is at hand. Transition-One, a small...
