Engineers at Cornell University have developed a robotic hand that uses light sensors to detect the shape and texture of objects.Soft robotics differ from traditional robots made from rigid parts, and powered by joints and motors. It is a growing field of research with products such as soft robot grippers already used in factories to sort and pack food like tomatoes or baked goods. Now engineer...

Bots are a growing segment of software that acts as an agent on a human’s behalf. These tasks range from ordering online, to making dinner reservations, to handling customer service requests, to helping employees be more productive in the workplace.[click to enlarge]Historically, most bots have used simple rules-based approaches to present an output for a given input (such as presenting the we...

The B2B market for the Internet of Things (IoT) is taking off. And huge numbers of vendors—including software, hardware, and internet companies; startups; service providers; and telcos—are jockeying for position and market share. With so much action in the IoT space, one question should be at the top of every IoT provider’s list of concerns: Where are the growth opportunities?To understand h...

The new Markforged Metal X is pretty great. It is a full metal 3D printer that generates real metal parts out of powdered metal which is then hardened under massive heat and allows for amazingly strong and light materials.The printer uses tubes of powered metal bound with plastic. The “extruder” first creates the shapes on a regular build plate and then you bond the material in a small furnac...

Leading Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn has created the Help Yourself herb garden for the ultimate in freshness, allowing customers to take just what they need.The Netherlands’ award-winning Albert Heijn supermarket chain recently introduced a new service for its customers – pick-your-own herb gardens. Developed with design agency studiomfd, the Help Yourself Herb Garden lets customers pick ex...

Most wireless electronic devices look the way they do because of their batteries. Batteries are bulky and rigid components that can’t easily be modified or eliminated. So when product developers design a new device, the battery is often the limiting factor in determining size, shape, and flexibility.But this year at CES in Las Vegas, Panasonic is showing off a new type of lithium-ion battery t...

As the world leader in UAV technologies, PowerVision Technology Group has announced its latest innovative underwater robot, PowerRay. It’s an underwater drone equipped with ground breaking features to revolutionize your recreational fishing wherever you are, freshwater, saltwater, or ice fishing.As an underwater drone, PowerRay delivers thrilling and effortless fish finding experience to consu...

TRENDBIRD - Annual Trend Report 2017 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) Annual Trend Report는 지난 한해동안 글로벌 시장에서 포착된 핵심적인 “글로벌 트렌드 및 미래사업 기회”를 12개의 주요 Industry와 핵심 Function으로 발행하는 보고서 (총12권)입니다. (핵심미래기술 : AI, AR/VR, Chatbot, Drone, 5G, Fintech, Voice-Control, Self-Driving Car, Robots 등)* 연합뉴스 기사 보기 : 20...

Consider five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years.Great scientific leaps rarely happen incrementally. They come from setting big, ambitious goals that move discovery forward. Think of the Wright brothers’ determination to fly, President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon, or IBM Research’s resolve to build a computer that could understand spoken langu...