There’s a global shortage of seasonal fruit pickers, made worse by COVID-19 travel restrictions. Some farmers are forced to leave ripe fruit to rot as a result. Now AI flying drones can spot the ripest fruit and pick it autonomously.The makers say the robots will save money and reduce food waste.It’s getting harder to find fruit pickers to harvest the world’s orchards. COVID-19 travel restri...

Intel revealed that its 3D Athlete Tracking (3DAT) technology is being employed by Exos, a firm that focuses on human performance conditioning, to help train professional athletes aspiring to join the National Football League (NFL) and other organizations.Intel’s 3DAT technology captures skeletal data when an athlete is sprinting, using a video camera running at 60 frames per second. That data...

Elon Musk made a paper profit of more than $900m following an investment in Bitcoin.We've all heard the stories of Bitcoin millionaires. Elon Musk is the latest.His electric car company Tesla made a paper profit of more than $900m (£646m) after buying $1.5bn (£1bn) -worth of the cryptocurrency in early February.Its high profile support helped pushed the price of a single Bitcoin to more than...

Exscientia has raised $100 million to further develop its artificial intelligence drug discovery platform while advancing its proprietary pipeline into clinical trials. The series C saw Exscientia add BlackRock to an investor syndicate already dotted with big names.U.K.-based Exscientia has established itself as a notable player in the AI drug discovery space through a series of deals with biop...

A soft, skin‐mounted microfluidic device for capture, collection and analysis of sweat. Cheap, Rugged, Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Hints at Bloodless Testing.Into this stay-at-home era of DIY personal training comes the first sweat-monitoring patch intended for broad consumer use. Rolling out this week from PepsiCo is the Gx Sweat Patch, developed by startup Epicore Biosystems in partnership with...

Studio Roosegaarde has proposed a light that uses ultraviolet radiation to sanitise outdoor spaces, claiming this could reduce the risk of people contracting Covid-19.Urban Sun uses far-UVC, a type of ultraviolet light with a lower wavelength that is thought to kill viruses while potentially posing a lower health risk to humans."World's first Urban Sun cleans public spaces of the coronavirus fo...

Personalization has been a long touted feature of eCommerce, but using a product configurator – the true technology behind scalable customization makes it possible.Check out this infographic from PARTsolutions for a deep dive for more.Infographic : https://bit.ly/30o5uue[PARTsolutions]

TRENDBIRD Quarterly Report (Silicon Valley VC Funding Report) - Q1. 2021 Edition Released !* TRENDBIRD Quarterly Report는 혁신적인 기술과 비즈니스 모델로 단시간내에 폭발적인 성장을 통해, Unicorn에 오를수있는 혁신 스타트업들과 Next Big 혁신 비즈니스 / 테크 모델을 조기에 발굴할 수 있도록, 실리콘밸리의 메이저 벤처 캐피탈들에 의해 사업성과 차별성, 그리고 성장성이 검증된 유망 비즈니스 모델과 혁신 기...

A tweet by Musk about SqUID, an automated warehouse picker developed by BionicHIVE, has generated huge interest."The robot future is coming" tweeted super-entrepreneur Elon Musk about a video clip showing warehouse logistics robot SqUID, developed by Israeli startup company BionicHIVE of Kibbutz Sha'ar HaNegev.The clip shows the robot moving down an aisle, climbing shelves, picking parcels, and...