The Innovation Report
Robots: An Important Presence on the Farm
It's a cloudy day in early October and I'm circling my rented Jeep Wrangler around a maze of industrial buildings in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is a small city 30 miles north of Cincinnati with a population of just over 62,000 people. Like much of Ohio, farming is...
Lawmakers: Progress in New AV Legislation
House lawmakers on Tuesday touted progress toward bipartisan legislation on self-driving cars, with plans to release draft language soon. The development comes as pressure grows on Congress to quickly provide a regulatory framework for the fast-developing industry....
Professor Researches Food Tech Justice
Garrett Broad, assistant professor of communication and media studies and director of the Public Media Masters of Art Program, is researching food system injustices and plant-based alternatives to meat in the United States and abroad. Broad said “food system” means...
West Virginia Allows Smartphone Voting for Disabled Voters
West Virginia legislature has passed legislation that will allow disabled voters to vote via smartphone. Governor Jim Justice is expected to sign the bill. It would require every county in West Virginia to offer smartphone voting, but the bill does not require a...
Michigan Ave: Mobility Test Corridor between Ann Arbor and Detroit
Testing mobility technologies along Michigan Avenue between Ann Arbor and Detroit is being discussed in regional transit circles, but officials have been tight-lipped on the details. Establishing Detroit-to-Ann Arbor transit infrastructure has long been part of...
Rogue IoT Devices Putting Your Network at Risk
Employees are bringing their own Internet of Things connected devices to the workplace and could be putting organisations at risk from cyberattacks because enterprise security teams aren't always aware that these devices are connected to the network. People are...
EVs: 44% Market Share in Norway in January
Electric cars accounted for a 44.3% share of Norway’s new car sales in January, rising year on year but falling short of the 50-60% range the industry forecast for 2020, data from the Norwegian Road Federation showed on Monday. In January 2019 electric cars made up...
5G will bring Smart Cities to Life in Unexpected Ways
5G has the potential to help cities improve citizen engagement and build an intelligent urban ecosystem around services, ambience, sustainability, inclusion, and equity. 5G has been a hot topic for years, but 2020 will be the year we begin to see 5G come to consumer...
IBM Leads in US Patents for AI + Blockchain
Tech giant IBM cemented its patent leadership in the United States, with over 9,000 received patents, including in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, in 2019. With the 9,626 patents secured, IBM became the company that received the most patents in the...
AI comes to Slurpees and Big Macs
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven revealed last week during the Re-Work A.I. conference in San Francisco that it had opened an experimental cashierless store in Dallas in November. Shahmeer Mirza, a 7-Eleven machine learning engineer, said people can pick up what they...
