The Innovation Report
Ford, Ann Arbor Partner on Mobility Data Platform
Ford Motor Company is partnering with Ann Arbor to launch a data gathering and analysis platform to explore mobility solutions across the city. The City Insights Platform will offer comprehensive views of safety, parking, transit and an interactive model...
Tesla Buys DeepScale for Self-driving Car Tech
Tesla has big plans in store, if we're to follow CEO Elon Musk's timeframe laid out during the Autonomy Investor Day. In an effort to achieve these goals, the electric-car maker may have made a solid purchase. CNBC reported Tuesday that Tesla...
Chatbots Lead To 80% Sales Decline, More Satisfied Customers And Fewer Employees
Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI, highlighted among other findings, disagreements about the impact of chatbots: Do purchase rates go down when people find out they are interacting with a chatbot? Or do...
Tesla: a Battery That Can Last a Million Miles
Last April, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles over the course of their lifespan. At the time, the claim seemed a bit much. That’s more than double the mileage Tesla owners can expect to...
Walgreens and Alphabet’s Wing Aviation Launch Drone Delivery Pilot
On September 19, Walgreens announced a partnership with Wing Aviation to offer an on-demand drone delivery service. Wing Aviation is part of the Alphabet family of companies and the first drone operator certified as an air carrier by the Federal Aviation...
Honeywell Launches Forge Cybersecurity Platform for IIoT
Honeywell on Wednesday formally launched the Forge Cybersecurity platform, part of its broader industrial Internet of things analytics Forge platform. Honeywell's Forge aims to take data from equipment, processes and people to provide insights to operators...
Connected Lighting Market to Grow 30% by 2023
Smart cities will be a major driver of the expansion with APAC expected to register the highest incremental growth due to increasing technology awareness by governments. The global connected streetlight market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate of more...
Square Invests in Crypto Currency Team
Square Crypto has hired Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz and Arik Sosman to its inaugural developer team. The crypto-focused branch of Jack Dorsey's payment company announced the appointments in a series of tweets on Sept. 19. Wallace joined the company from...
Ford’s Autonomous Vehicles Coming to Austin
Ford is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Austin, Texas, the company announced on Wednesday. Ford will start by mapping the streets of downtown Austin this November. Eventually, the size of the fleet and the geographic area will grow until Ford is ready to launch an...
The Robot Garage Introduces Robotics to Detroit Students
The gym at Pasteur Elementary School was bursting with energy as fifth- and sixth-graders raced to the tables set up in the center of the room to sort through a pile of Legos. A group of kids were reaching over each other, talking excitedly while searching for...
