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Advanced driver assistance systems are becoming on the norm even on midlevel cars. For safety advocates that seems like good news: Systems designed to prevent crashes should, after all, result in fewer crashes. But what if that thinking is flawed? A new report from AAA suggests that might be the case and that our increasing […] More
How’d we do on Cyber Monday? There are lots of ways to measure the orgy of online consumption. According to the site SaleCycle, Cyber Monday 2019 saw sales totalling $9.2bn, up 16.9% from $7.9bn in 2018. Black Monday alone saw $7.4bn in sales. We could also measure the human participation in that historic week. A […] More
Dr. Irene Petrick (Senior Director of Industrial Innovation) is to the left, on the ground; Faith McCreary (Principal Engineer, Experience Architect & Researcher, IOT Experiences) is to the right, on the ladder; they’re standing next to their research, which amounts to 77 inches of paper. Intel Special feature The Rise of Industrial IoT Infrastructure around […] More
It’s an exciting time to be in robotics. Driven by increasing diversification in the industry, the $100+ billion global sector has been growing by leaps and bounds. Industrial robots are no longer the exclusive domain of heavy industry or huge factories. Collaborative robots in particular have helped expand the enterprise customer base to include mid-sized […] More
A robotics company based in Salt Lake City is about to blow up news feeds with the release of a device that, as a species, we’ve been anticipating for a generation but still feels wildly futuristic. The device from Sarcos Robotics is a wearable powered exoskeleton specifically targeting industry. Welcome to the age of the […] More
Infrastructure is literally crumbling in many major cities. Fortunately, a number of new technologies are converging to assist in overdue inspections of vital infrastructure such as road and railway bridges. “Typically, municipalities or private companies send out a large team of inspectors and need to close certain sections of the bridges to traffic,” says Michael […] More
Deliveries of medicine and health equipment to remote areas or even from one urban hospital to another can save lives. The problem is, helicopters and private transport planes are expensive and pilots are in short supply. Drones have long been touted as a promising answer, and a new winged drone from Avy, which makes unmanned […] More
Would you crack under a relentless assault of trash talk from a robot? Yeah, turns out you probably would. Or so says a recent study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, which demonstrated that negative smack talk by a robot can have a real impact on how humans perform. Conversely, encouraging talk from the robot […] More
