Karma Automotive raises $100 million as it looks to resell it EV platform to other automakers.Karma Automotive, maker of the Revero plug-in hybrid luxury car, has raised $100 million from outside investors as the company and its parent seek to tap into an electric-car stock surge by seeking an additional $300 million.The fresh funding coincides with at least the fourth makeover for a company fo...

The flexible sensors have been developed by one of the finalists for The Spinoff Prize. Softsonics’ wearable sensor is flexible enough to be worn over a joint.Softsonics is a spin-off from the University of California, San DiegoMost people have been to a physician’s office and had their blood pressure taken with an inflatable cuff around their arm. The test, which measures the maximum and min...

Harvard biomedical engineering professor to launch nasal spray that could reduce COVID-19 transmission risk.A new product developed by Harvard Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards is set to launch this fall, and claims to be able to provide a nearly 100% reduction in the particles present in exhaled air — thus reducing the potential transmission of SARS-CoV-2 bo...

Industrial companies have an enormous carbon footprint. Their production and logistics operations account for more than half of all global carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from fuel combustion. Considering current trends, emissions from production and logistics would need to decrease by approximately 45% by 2030 to be on a path to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target for limiting...

A Chinese hotel chain operates with an entirely automated experience, for a completely contactless stay.With “contactless” the new watchword in all types of business services thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the time has arrived for the contactless hotel — and a variety of chains are taking notice. The first smart hotel opened in Japan in 2015; in 2018, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba Group...

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at MIT CSAIL, Nvidia, the University of Washington, and the University of Toronto describe an AI system that learns the physical interactions affecting materials like fabric by watching videos. They claim the system can extrapolate to interactions it hasn’t seen before, like those involving multiple shirts and pants, enabling i...

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No industry has been spared from the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but the auto industry has been hit particularly hard. In the U.S., plant closures, combined with global supply chain challenges, have wreaked havoc on production. Additionally, the economic impact of the health crisis will reduce annual sales for 2020 and likely 2021 as well. Despite the murky road ahead,...

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