The Innovation Report
Grocery Stores Turn to Robots During Coronavirus
Local grocers and big chains alike are deploying robots to clean floors, stock shelves and deliver groceries to shoppers during the coronavirus. Grocers are searching for ways to reduce pressure on store workers and increase efficiency amid a surge of shoppers...
Smart Building Initiatives are the Building Blocks of a Smart City
To paraphrase a well-known saying, the journey to a complete smart city begins with a single building. No matter the size of the city, the extent of the technology or the most helpful use cases, a prospective smart city can integrate into — or branch off of...
Waymo: AI Improves AV Performance While Saving Costs
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle research division, today detailed a system — Progressive Population Based Augmentation (PPBA) — it claims has improved the performance of its autonomous systems while reducing the amount of data required to train them....
Detroit and Paris Auto Shows Cancelled over COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has already led to a lot of events from product launches to exhibitions getting scrapped. The latest in line are the Detroit and Paris Auto Shows. Both the expos have been canceled due to uncertainty even though they were to start in the...
Social Distance: Send Your AV to the Drive-Thru
Last week, YouTuber Nick Lumarque took that to heart combining our newfound reliance on drive-thrus and our requirement to practice social distancing into a silly social experiment: Could Tesla owners avoid human contact by using the car’s driverless technology to...
Growth Forecast for IIoT Farm Management
The IIoT industry for smart beacons is expected to grow at a significant rate between 2020 and 2025. Smart beacons function as signal transmitters that are majorly battery powered and can be configured with the help of a mobile app. This makes them scalable and highly...
5G iPhone Ready by Fall Despite COVID-19
Foxconn and other Asian manufacturers were forced to halt production through most of February as the region dealt with quarantines designed to slow the spread of the virus. That prompted Apple to issue a warning for its fiscal second quarter. Since then, Foxconn has...
Blockchain to Feed London’s Hungry
In an attempt to reignite community spirit during the coronavirus pandemic, James Bowater of City AM’s Crypto Insider listed a fundraiser on the BABB (Bank Account Based Blockchain) platform to help elderly and vulnerable people residing around Canary Wharf, Poplar...
China to Ease EV Quotas to Help Industry
China is considering temporarily easing quotas designed to boost production of electric cars to help automakers badly bruised by the coronavirus pandemic to revive slumping sales, people familiar with the matter said. Policymakers in the world's biggest auto market...
Smart City Tech to Control COVID-19
South Korea and Singapore are taking a smart city approach to halting the spread of the coronavirus . Both countries have been using contact tracing to identify people who have been exposed to the virus as well as all the people who had interacted with an infected...
