By 2035, autonomous driving could create $300 billion to $400 billion in revenue. New research reveals what’s needed to win in the fast-changing passenger car market.The dream of seeing fleets of driverless cars efficiently delivering people to their destinations has captured consumers’ imaginations and fueled billions of dollars in investment in recent years. But even after some setbacks tha...

Nest Co-Creator Wants You to Pay $33 a Month Not to Trash Your Food. The device blends right into the room. It looks like a trash can—one of those sleek, steel models, cream-colored with a small foot pedal at the base. Matt Rogers skips across the room to show it off. He taps the pedal to open the bin’s lid and reveal a pile of what looks like thinly shaved brown mulch, the dehydrated remnant...

Sony wants to make you a virtual friend. The company seeks to patent a “telepresence robot” that mimics you on screen to provide a “measure of companionship,” though the company doesn’t say whether this will be in VR, AR or on screen. This could be a sign that Sony wants to take the remote office to the next level.Patent Application : https://bit.ly/3ltN5tO[USPTO]

Anyone who’s experimented with ChatGPT can get a sense of the potential of generative AI—even in the technology’s earliest stages. The hype around AI was rising throughout 2022, and has reached a fever pitch today.We’ve seen hype cycles swell around specific technologies before. Blockchain, Metaverse, NFTs, the list goes on. It remains to be seen what tangible value is created after the hea...

The system incorporates two arm-lifting inflatable actuators. Proof-of-concept device is comfortable, safe, easy to use.Some 30,000 people in the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that damages cells in the brain and spinal cord necessary for movement.Two torsos wearing a black soft robotics vest. The firs...

By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020, according to a new report by the Institute for Economics & Peace. This increase is being driven by both population growth and a continued shift towards urbanization, particularly to so called ‘megacities’ - metropolises that have a population of 10 million or more.Urbanization takes place becau...

Video chats came into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing an audiovisual lifeline for fragmented families and social groups, as well as keeping remote-working teams in touch. But they seem rather flat and low-tech compared to the telepresence booth concept presented by Logitech at ISE 2023 this week.Logitech has decent form for making online communication possible, thanks to its q...

Ipsos survey for the World Economic Forum unveils mix of positive feelings and concerns about AI’s impact on people’s lives.A new Ipsos survey for the World Economic Forum finds that, on average, six out of 10 adults from 28 countries expect that products and services using artificial intelligence will profoundly change their daily life in the next three to five years. Half of them feel it ha...

We have seen many kinds of lamps and lighting fixtures, some more decorative while others are mostly utilitarian in their design. What binds most of these lamps together is their need to be plugged in one way or another, whether it’s to directly tap into a power grid or to charge their internal batteries. Sooner or later, we will realize just how much we consume to light up our homes, especial...