DRU is designed for short-range deliveries, and is also apparently deeply disturbing to joggers. Hot on the heels of the Starship delivery robot, Domino's has announced its own autonomous pizza delivery machine. Built on military technology, DRU (Domino's Robotic Unit) can keep pizza hot and drinks cold on the way to your house and is set to hit the streets of Australia in prototype form for te...

The circular economy is gaining growing attention as a potential way for our society to increase prosperity, while reducing demands on finite raw materials and minimizing negative externalities. Such a transition requires a systemic approach, which entails moving beyond incrementalimprovements to the existing model as well as developing new collaboration mechanisms. The report explores the inte...

This AI bot offers moments of rest as it books travel for you.Claire, an artificially intelligent platform that’s integrated seamlessly with your standard texting app and Slack, removes friction normally associated with booking a flight.‘Isabel works for a company called Firm Catalyst. Next week she will attend a business meeting in San Francisco, but as usual she barely has time to plan her...

A touch of silver lets smart windows go from clear to translucent. The technology uses silver nanowires to change the opacity of normal-looking windows.Imagine if instead of installing curtains or blinds, you could simply adjust the opacity of the glass in your windows. Not only would this allow you to vary the amount of privacy they provided, but it would also let you determine how much sunlig...

3D solar towers offer up to 20 times more power output than traditional flat solar panels.Most solar panels are placed flat on rooftops because they are designed to harness solar energy when the sun is directly overhead. However, when the angle of the sun’s rays hitting the panel changes, traditional panels quickly become less efficient.To get around this inefficiency, scientists have been exp...

When it comes to bottled beverages, it’s not just the bottle itself that accounts for material waste but also the label! This design, called the “Moj Sokic” label, images the label as a handle to encourage reuse of a juice bottle. Each white label is attached underneath the lid of a juice bottle and flips upwards to let users easily grip, hang or store their juice bottle wherever they see fi...

With its complex interplay of fund-raising, investments, exits and returns carried out on a global scale against kaleidoscopic shifts in the business cycle, credit conditions and regulatory environment, a year in private equity (PE) is a lifetime in most other industries. As the global economic expansion showed signs of strain amid continued record-low interest rates, feverish competition that...

36% Interested in Owning Virtual Reality Device, but 75% Won't Pay More Than $250, Earlier this week, Sony held a special event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to present PlayStation VR, the company’s virtual reality headset aimed to compete with Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive. The device, formally known as Project Morpheus, is built for Sony’s PlayStation 4 and wi...

A point and shoot is all it takes to upload your face into the VR world.Known for its advancements in computer vision, especially with its successfully backed Kickstarter campaign which announced the world’s first wireless, pocket-sized scanner, Dacuda is a Swiss software start-up that just rolled out an exciting product looking to enhance the capabilities of current-state virtual reality and...