The Industry Innovation Report
Investment in Agri Tech Startups Jumps 2-fold to $4.6B in FY22
Investment in technology startups in the agriculture and food sector jumped over twofold to USD 4.6 billion during the last fiscal on the back of higher inflow in restaurant marketplace and e-grocery, according to a report by AgFunder and Omnivore....
Four Drone Market Trends for Mindful Entrepreneurs
Over $500 billion. This is the fantastic revenue figure predicted for the drone market by 2030. And considering its development pace, I presume this forecast to come true. Drones are already being used to improve a variety of tasks and industries: monitoring the...
AI and Robotics to Help Early Infection Detection
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University are developing artificial intelligence (AI) and socially assistive robots to detect urinary tract infections (UTIs) earlier. The FEATHER project aims to reduce the number of serious...
Competitors Chip Away at Tesla’s US EV Share
New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla's dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about 65% of...
How NASA and Europe Will Bring Mars Samples Back to Earth
A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth. Key moments of the unprecedented and highly complex Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission are detailed in a 106-second NASA/ESA video(opens in...
Why Better Mapping Technology is Critical to AVs
Autonomous cars find the way to their destination using a number of critical technologies, including some version of a global position system and a central brain to interpret that and other data. But many of those technologies are not reliable or accurate enough...
In Northern Minnesota, AVs Hitting Rural Roads
On a damp evening in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, just after a rainstorm, a white van drove up through an empty high school and performing arts center parking lot. The van that picked me up, a Toyota Sienna, looks different from a regular Sienna. It has a cylinder mounted...
AV Tech Company May Mobility Appoints Kathy Winter COO
May Mobility, a technology start-up working towards the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has appointed former Intel and Delphi executive Kathy Winter as its Chief Operating Officer. The technology company’s proprietary Multi-Policy...
Blade Air Mobility: Set For Urban Air Mobility Future
While a lot of companies discuss building urban air mobility (UAM) networks in the next few years, Blade Air Mobility (NASDAQ:BLDE) has already successfully built an air mobility platform. The company now has a network covering the US, Canada and Europe...
Flexible AI Computer Chips Promise Wearable Health Monitors that Protect Privacy
My colleagues and I have developed a flexible, stretchable electronic device that runs machine-learning algorithms to continuously collect and analyze health data directly on the body. The skinlike sticker, developed in my lab at the University of...
