The Innovation Report
Ford Promotes Hands-Free Driving
Ford's new hands-free-driving product will be available on its Mustang Mach-E electric car. The Dearborn, Mich., auto giant said in a news release its new Ford Co-Pilot360 Technology will open up "hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of divided highways in...
AI Escalating Cybersecurity
The time is here for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) in cyber. There is a widespread move out of the early adopter stage and into the early majority stage of adoption. We need to get onboard if we are going to thwart cybercriminals. The good news...
WiBotic raises $5.7M for Wireless Drone Chargers
Wireless drone charging solutions provider WiBotic today announced it has raised $5.7 million, which it will use to expand its product offerings and enhance customer support. CEO Ben Waters says the plan is to grow WiBotic’s sales team over the...
5G Port Surveillance Boost
Drones will dot the skies above Singapore's southern coastal waters as part of a 5G trial to improve port surveillance. The one-year flight trial, which will start in August near Marina South Pier, will test how Airbus drones can be remotely controlled over 5G...
Drones Deployed During Marches — Surveillance?
The acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner told ABC News that CBP drones that were used to monitor protests from high in the sky were not put in place to surveil protesters. "What I would categorize that as just a false narrative," Acting CBP...
AI and More Management-free Organizations
Michael J. Sikorsky, CEO and co-founder Robots and Pencils, sees a world where AI and technology are operating autonomously, with little need for continuous oversight. This is increasingly the case with human talent as well, he explained in a...
Robot Built for Aging Workforce finds COVID Role
Mira Robotics developed its “ugo” robot to reinforce greying Japan’s shrinking workforce, but as the coronavirus threat persists, the Japanese startup is offering its machine as a tool in the fight against the outbreak, the company’s CEO said. “The coronavirus has...
Amid COVID, Companies Could Replace Workers with Robots
The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed tens of millions of American jobs. How many of them will come back? That might be one of the most pressing questions of the Covid-19 recession. Arguably no other downturn has threatened to leave American life so...
AI Revolutionizing Organ Donation
Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize organ donation. In fact, according to “Predicting Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes: Comparing KDRI/KDPI with Machine Learning,” with artificial intelligence – “specifically, training machines to learn from past...
Black-Owned Lab Uses AI-based Drug Discovery
The novel coronavirus has ravaged most of the globe, but in the U.S., African Americans and other communities of color have disproportionately born the lethal impact of the pandemic. Darnisha Harrison, a Louisiana State University grad and founder and CEO...
