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No-contact pizza delivery? It’s free if you’re a healthcare worker in certain areas in the U.S. and U.K. served by Starship Technologies, one of a handful of robotic delivery companies whose business models have been in hyper-drive these last few months. As restrictions related to COVID-19 gradually ease, developers and service providers in the autonomous […] More
Social distancing is important, and perhaps nowhere more so than at work, where many essential workers are have been toiling on site. Now, app updates are permitting technologies used in settings like warehouses and manufacturing floors to monitor social distancing. In some cases, these high tech police officers are even narcing out employees who don’t […] More
For those who fear the pandemic will give rise to an extra layer of surveillance and accelerate the erosion of security, there’s some bad news. We’re already seeing pretty strong evidence on the development side of a wave of technologies designed to enhance tracking and crowd management at gathering spaces of all kinds. Crises in […] More
There are two broad technology categories that are benefiting overwhelmingly from the upheaval caused by the global coronavirus pandemic: tools for working at home and technologies that help localize previously distributed supply chains. On that second count, this is a real moment for 3D printing. China’s economic upheaval on the heels of the coronavirus, coupled […] More
Mass Communication Specialist 2n The first and second leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease and cancer. The third is now coronavirus. Know what’s next? Astoundingly, the answer is preventable medical errors. Surgical errors in particular account for 26% of these deaths and cost somewhere north of $36 billion in the […] More
Consumer-facing AI and robotics applications have had an uphill battle, and they’ve had to wage it on two fronts. Regulation has, perhaps for the better, throttled adoption of technologies like self-driving cars and delivery robots, turning developers into lobbyists. At the same time, automation firms have had to win over wary consumers. It’s hard in […] More
In the context of human suffering, worrying about how enterprises will react to a slowing economy should be secondary. But as the economic toll of mandatory shutdowns and shelter-in-place orders mounts, and as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on businesses across a vast spectrum of industries, there are naturally a flurry of questions around the […] More
One of the big regulatory hurdles to the commercial adoption of drones — the kind that fly as well as the kind that roll down sidewalks and may one day deliver you a pizza — is collision safety. A small handful of safety incidents could have major consequences for adoption, and many regulatory bodies are […] More
