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Researchers in Denmark Apply AI to Autonomous Drones

June 6, 2019 · The AiR Lab designs and prints its own drone prototypes while developing hybrid controllers.

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Sensors Smarten Up the Edge

May 1, 2019 · Companies that want to bring AI to the edge face hardware and data processing challenges.

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Researchers Freeze-Print Graphene Battery Anodes

April 24, 2019 · A team at Kansas State University used a freeze printing approach to create sodium ion batteries with hybrid graphene aerogels.

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Simcenter Amesim Announces Major Simulation Upgrades for Automotive, Aerospace and Marine Industries

April 17, 2019 · By extending Modelica support and integration with other Simcenter solutions, Simcenter Amesim helps users to set up a toolchain throughout the development cycle.

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UPS Partners with Matternet to Transport Medical Samples via Drone across Hospital System

March 27, 2019 · First FAA sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights involving the transport of a product under a contractual delivery agreement.

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Meeting Design and Regulatory Challenges of Autonomous Air Taxis

March 25, 2019 · Frankfurt Airport manager Fraport is working with Volcopter to potentially use electric, vertical take-off multicopter (eVTOLs) to carry passengers through an urban transport network.

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FedEx Unveils Future Autonomous Delivery Robot

February 27, 2019 · FedEx Corp. announced today a development in cutting-edge delivery solutions to meet the rapidly changing needs of consumers - the FedEx SameDay Bot - an autonomous delivery device designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers.

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Google’s Parent Company Alphabet Will Begin ‘Wing’ Aerial Drone Deliveries in Finland

December 6, 2018 · Wing, the Alphabet-owned drone delivery startup, has announced that it will launch a free 10-minute trial distribution service starting in spring 2019 in Finland.

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While Uber Exits Self-Driving Trucks Kodiak Robotics Starts Up

August 8, 2018 · As the autonomous self-driving truck market heats up Otto/Google veteran Don Burnette and venture capitalist Paz Eshel and their start-up company Kodiak Robotics raise $40M to tackle the long-haul trucking business.

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Is the Logistics Industry Heading Towards an AI Driven Autonomous Future?

December 21, 2017 · It's time for the logistics industry to start looking seriously into an autonomous future with driverless trucks leading the way, the question is, are we ready?

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Why You Need to Think Twice About Flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Transportation

November 10, 2017 · The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility, but rather than embracing that vision, policymakers should consider why flying vehicles are not only unpractical but also unnecessary.

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Solving a $45 Billion-Dollar Per Annum Retail Problem with RFID-Reading Warehouse Drones

September 8, 2017 · By coupling airborne drones with smarter RFID systems, MIT researchers have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses, possibly making missing packages a thing of the past and saving retailers billions lost through faulty inventory records.

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IDTechEx research explores how mobile robots will transform materials handling

July 31, 2017 · From forklifts to mobile picking robots to automated last-mile delivery, new technologies will either perish or they will reshape the industry.

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UPS Drone Meets UPS Delivery Truck

February 22, 2017 · UPS has announced that it has successfully tested a drone that launches from the top of a UPS package car, autonomously delivers a package to a home and then returns to the vehicle while the delivery driver continues along the route to make a separate delivery.

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AGVs Roll into a New Role

January 17, 2017 · Equipped with new sensors and smart software, automatic guided vehicles are pursuing and eliminating non-value-added movement of goods in warehouses and DCs.

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Tesla co-founder joins Clearpath board of advisors

March 8, 2016 · Marc Tarpenning joins Clearpath's board of advisors to support self-driving vehicle development.

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IFR predicts 15% annual growth for robots

October 12, 2015 · US robot installations up 11%; global market value including support services estimated at $32 billion for 2014.

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