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| Drones delivering drinks in a crowded restaurant? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. |
| A Singapore restaurant plans to use drones to transport food and drinks from the kitchen to a wait station near customers’ tables by the end of this year. Infinium Robotics, the Singapore company that’s developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre, showed off the technology here: It has spent the past two weeks testing the technology at … Read full article » |
| Google’s robotic ‘dog’ — that can’t stop getting kicked — laps up Internet sympathy |
| We’ll start with a quick backstory for those who aren’t up on the above joke. Monday Boston Dynamics — which Google acquired during its infamous robot shopping spree of 2013 – released a video of its latest creation. That would be Spot, a 160-pound electric robot with an uncanny ability to balance. Boston Dynamics demonstrated this in … Read full article » |
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| One small step for man, one giant step for the commercialization of the moon |
| Maybe plans for the commercial exploration of the moon aren’t so far-fetched after all. The FAA, in a carefully worded policy statement, has essentially outlined a scenario by which a U.S.-based company – Bigelow Aerospace – could stake future claims to lunar property. That could be huge. For nearly 50 years, ever since the 1967 … Read full article » |
| Britain to test a self-driving car on public sidewalks |
| The race to fill our roads with self-driving cars continues. On Wednesday, Transport Systems Catapult, a British innovation agency, unveiled an electric self-driving vehicle that will begin transporting people around Milton Keynes, a town 50 miles outside London. The car has a top speed of 15 mph and will drive on sidewalks instead of roads. It’s … Read full article » |
| Privacy is following chivalry to the grave. Here’s why that’s a good thing. |
| In the digital era, it’s not only government agencies and Silicon Valley companies spying on us or attempting to monetize our data — it’s our smart TVs and our futuristic cars. And, once the Internet of Things gets fully connected, you can finally say goodbye to privacy, as just about any device will have the ability … Read full article » |
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| How self-driving cars would benefit Americans more than world peace |
| Hypothetically, let’s say you could go back in time to 1900 and do one thing to save millions of lives. What would you do? Constrained to one wish, you might ask for world peace. It seems like an obvious and easy choice. But during the four deadliest wars the United States fought in the 20th century, … Read full article » |
| Peak fender-bender: Technology can prevent car crashes, if consumers will buy in |
| Imagine for a second a world in which no driver ever gets rear-ended. That may sound impossible, but it shouldn’t. For perspective on the blistering rate of technology’s advancements, remember that a few months ago mankind launched a probe from a satellite and it landed on a comet that was traveling at a whopping 84,000 … Read full article » |
| How one city that’s vulnerable to climate change is fighting back |
| Face it, climate change is upon us. And with the devastating toll associated with an increase in storms, heat and drought that have only intensified, much of the talk nowadays has shifted to interventions that can lessen the impact. In Scandinavia, the situation has already moved way beyond being a topic of serious discussion. Since … Read full article » |
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