TREND REPORTS
(Paper) MIT's Robot Gripper Can Lift 100 Times Its Own Weight
[Tech]
2019/03/17 09:09
A soft robot that’s perfect for packing groceries.If someone asked you to imagine a robot, says Daniela Rus, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), you’d probably think of a human-shaped bot or some heavy-duty industrial robot arm. “But for me, I would like to see a change,” she tells The Verge.The latest work from her team at MIT is a perfect...
(PDF) BCG - How CPG Companies Can Catch Up as Online Sales Take Off
[Business]
2019/03/17 09:08
A seismic shift is occurring in consumer packaged goods (CPG)—but manufacturers are not keeping pace.Online sales grew rapidly from 2013 to 2018—19% annually versus the anemic 1% growth rate of in-store sales. All told, e-commerce now accounts for 40% of the growth in CPG retail sales. The problem: large CPG companies continue to lag in e-commerce, posting weaker performance in the online are...
(Patent) IBM Publishes Patent for Resisting Replay Attacks in Permissioned Blockchains
[Tech]
2019/03/17 09:07
Multinational computing giant IBM is adding to its arsenal of blockchain patents with an application for improving the security of permissioned blockchain networks. The patent, first filed in October 2016, was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 12.The patent is entitled “Resisting replay attacks efficiently in a permissioned and privacy-preserving blockchain ne...
Starbucks Fights Hot Startup in China
[Business]
2019/03/17 09:06
Coffee giant’s battle with Luckin highlights value of delivery services in world’s second-biggest economy, even at the expense of profits.Starbucks built its empire in China on the idea that consumers there would want to be seen inside its posh cafes.Now the Seattle-based company is struggling to keep up as local upstart Luckin Coffee wins over a new kind of Chinese customer—one who wants th...
Bringing Realism to VR is Complex, But Start VR Found a Way in Holograms
[Business]
2019/03/17 09:05
Read any extensive coverage of virtual reality and undoubtedly you’ll come across the word “immersion” at least once or twice. That’s a relatively vague term for the feeling of presence within the virtual world, but it’s as close as we’ll get to providing a singular point of reference for gauging the success of a VR developer in crafting a believable experience.Most developers utilize sim...
Amazon’s Ad Business Growth Outstrips Facebook and Google
[Business]
2019/03/17 09:04
Amazon’s ad business is growing fast—faster than Facebook and Google when they were at comparable sizes, according to third-party data and an analysis of company filings. If this continues, it could fuel criticism from political circles about Amazon’s expanding tentacles in different businesses.Amazon’s ad business crossed the billion-dollar mark in 2016, when it raked in about $1.5 billion...
Samsung’s Galaxy Smartwatch has Competition - The Galaxy Band ?
[Design]
2019/03/17 09:03
What would you even call this tech-filled friendship bracelet?! The Galaxy Bend? Sounds too much like the Galaxy Fold. The Galaxy Band? That sounds like people would confuse it with the smartwatch.This is a conceptual Samsung smart-wristband. Created by LetsGoDigital using patents that Samsung filed just a week back, this device is clearly Samsung’s way of flooding the market with flexible dis...
(PDF) Mckinsey - The Trends Transforming Mobility’s Future
[Business]
2019/03/14 11:12
Mobility as we know it is about to change. A handful of trends will largely determine the benefits—and costs—for business and society.Since its inception, the automobile has been a flashpoint for technological, economic, and social innovation, doing as much as any human invention to change how people live—largely, but not always, for the better. Now it’s time to buckle up again: the levels...
(Video) Festo’s Agile Robot Handles Objects Effortlessly - BionicSoftHand
[Tech]
2019/03/14 11:12
A study conducted at MIT previously demonstrated that AI-powered robots can make pizza, and now engineers at Festo have designed an agile robot arm which can effortlessly handle objects and even learn how to do it better.Festo’s agile robot arm is equipped with a “bionic soft hand,” the feature it is officially named after. The BionicSoftHand introduces a new approach to a robot skeleton. Fe...
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