The Innovation Report
Spot Robot Helping Remotely Treat COVID-19
Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot is already in use at one Boston hospital to help with coronavirus treatment. The company now has ambitious plans to expand use of its robots to assist healthcare workers during the...
Robots, AI, and a Fully Autonomous Construction Industry
Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators, might be further along than many autonomous vehicles. In fact, CEO Noah Ready-Campbell insists you’ll see autonomous vehicles in...
Blockchain, Autonomous Tech Help Keep ‘Fair Fashion’ In Style
At a sewing workshop in the South Indian town of Chittapur, a seamstress named Halima has spent much of her day cutting a new blouse pattern out of dyed cotton fabrics, embroidering the sleeves by hand, and then stitching the seams together before shipping the entire...
GM Shutters App-Based, Car-Sharing Business
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
CARL Will Charge Your EV
Aiways believes something like this robot could be a game changer for EV charging, which today is rather cumbersome in public. Stations go down, payment isn't totally seamless and the stations themselves aren't exactly mobile. Instead, CARL could wander around a...
Future of Smart Cities; Death of Privacy
Imagine if the ground could know if you’re walking on it. Imagine if that patch of sidewalk could tell how much you weigh, how fast you’re going, and where you’re headed. Imagine that road could determine exactly how many people are walking or running or biking or...
Microsoft Offering Free Cybersecurity to Health Groups
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would offer free cybersecurity protection tools to health care, humanitarian and human rights groups around the world following a spike in attempted hacking attempts due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company will offer groups...
Will COVID Bring Voting into 21st century?
If you’re living in New York, staying inside and limiting social contact essentially to zero, congratulations – you’re doing exactly what public health experts say is necessary to stem the spread of the coronavirus. But what if, come the April and June primary...
Facebook Blocks 5G Conspiracy Groups
Facebook blocked two anti-5G groups over the weekend after members encouraged the destruction of mobile phone masts in breach of the network's policies on promoting violence. Group members also promoted misinformation linking 5G to the coronavirus outbreak. The "Stop...
Smart Cities: Protecting against COVID, but Threatening Privacy
Smart cities can help us combat the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, in a growing number of countries, smart cities are doing just that. Governments and local authorities are using smart city technology, sensors and data to trace the contacts of people infected with the...
