Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of complex movements.Part walking robot, part flying drone, the newly developed LEONARDO (short for LEgs ONboARD drOne, or LEO for short) can walk a slackline, hop, and even ride a skateboard. Developed by a team at Caltech's Center f...

Hailo, a startup developing AI accelerator chips for edge devices, today announced that it raised $136 million in a series C funding round led by Poalim Equity and entrepreneur Gil Agmon.The capital brings Hailo’s total raised to $224 million, and CEO Orr Danon says the company will put the funds toward mass manufacturing of its current chips and the development of next-generation hardware in...

In 2020, the global economy experienced one of the worst declines since the Great Depression.Yet, while the ripple effects of COVID-19 have thrown many businesses into disarray, some companies have not only managed to stay afloat amidst the chaos—they’ve thrived. Using data from Kantar BrandZ, this graphic looks at the top 100 most valuable brands of 2021.MethodologyEach year, research group...

HealthCab is Philips’ future vision of an autonomous healthcare where you don’t need to go to the hospital, the hospital would go to you. How’s that sound? It’s an ambitious design concept that provokes current models of care delivery, this could be the future of healthcare that started as a visionary design concept. With pandemic that has exposed many problems in our healthcare systems acr...

U.S. PC market shrinks for first time since Covid-19 outbreak. Pandemic boost to home-computing demand enters sixth quarter.Computer sales grew at the slowest rate since the start of the pandemic due to component shortages and logistics snarls, according to the latest report by IDC.The key U.S. market shrunk for the first time since sales cratered in the first quarter of 2020 with the coronavir...

When someone has suffered arm weakness due to a stroke, it's important for them to perform repetitive exercises in order to regain strength in the limb. A new device is designed to help them do so, as they use the gadget to play video games.Designed by a team at Imperial College London, the rehabilitation tool is known as the GripAble. The patient holds the device in the hand of their affected...

Inspired by the build of Jenga towers, Cenga is a modular, handmade coffee set with a grinder, dripper, and canister included in a single unit.Since coffee shops closed due to the pandemic, we’ve brought the coffee shops home–grinders, drippers, travel mugs, galore. With so many supplies needed to make a cup of coffee, storing our at-home coffee shops becomes the hard part.Piled together like...

Rumors from various sources keep sharing details about Apple’s purported foldable iPhone. That Apple is developing such a device isn’t at all surprising. Everyone in the industry is developing handsets with foldable displays, with Samsung being the best example. The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3 also happen to be the best possible foldable handsets that money can buy right now. And reports say t...

The global unicorn club is bigger than it's ever been, with 800+ private companies topping $1B valuations. We break down the data on this elite cohort.There are more unicorns than ever before, with over 800 private companies topping $1B+ valuations.As the global unicorn club closes the gap to 1,000, we used CB Insights data to visualize the stats on this elite cohort, from valuation distributio...