Robotics

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A self-driving car company called AutoX just opened what it’s calling the Shanghai RoboTaxi Operations Center, which will serve as the largest data hub for self-driving car data in China.  The operations center will serve as another tentpole in a 2019 agreement between AutoX and Shanghai municipal authorities to deploy 100 autonomous vehicles in Jiading District.  In […] More

In the face of the ongoing public health crisis, telehealth is experiencing an explosion in demand. And with this demand, there is no doubt that hackers will try to take advantage of a chaotic situation. According to Natali Tshuva, CEO of IoT security company Sternum, more and more hackers are likely to target remote monitoring and medical devices, […] More

GPS has become critical infrastructure in the modern age, relied on by ground, air, and sea vehicles for navigation. But vulnerabilities to satellite navigation, including spoofing and GPS manipulation, are a potential recipe for catastrophe. Antivirus software may be a stopgap. The issue is that civilian GPS is, in many ways, a legacy system. “Twenty-year-old […] More

In many areas, construction is being deemed an essential service amid ongoing shelter-in-place restrictions. While there are obvious aspects of building that do require an in-person presence on a job site, it may surprise you that there are many jobs in construction that might be done remotely. But unlike many sectors where working remotely has been embraced […] More

Logistics and fulfillment centers have adopted automation at a blistering pace since Amazon acquired Kiva back in 2012. The inside of a modern fulfillment warehouse looks like a carefully orchestrated dance between human workers and a number of robots, including autonomous mobile carts and pick-and-place machines. But the distribution yards outside logistics warehouses have been […] More

Here’s a novel idea: Equip a drone with a powerful but compact turbine engine that gives it the same sort of range and flight characteristics turbine-powered aircraft have. Then fly the drone to a remote area or one cut off by disaster, where the same engine can work as a generator that runs off of […] More

Hospitals are turning to artificial intelligence and machine vision to help with the spread of COVID-19 in novel applications that feel straight out of science fiction. A company called care.ai is working with hospitals to screen visitors by analyzing facial attributes such as sweating and discoloration as well as data from a thermal scan. This allows hospitals […] More