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World's First Public Road Test of Vehicle Equipped with Smart Lidar

RoboSense announced the world's first public road test of a vehicle equipped with a Smart LiDAR Sensor.

A $250Bn Revolution: Mobile Robots and Autonomous Vehicles in Delivery

Automation in the delivery/logistic and warehousing/fulfilment chain is a growing market. A particularly exciting subset of this is the use of mobile robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles for automation of movement-based tasks.

Alibaba unveils its own AI chip

Alibaba Group plans to launch its first self-developed AI inference chip, which has potential for use in autonomous driving, smart cities and smart logistics. In addition to this, the Academy will boost its R&D in AI chips for training on the cloud and for IOT applications.

Facial recognition for the 2020 Olympic games

Intel announced that it is partnering with a broad array of partners to drive the future of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with groundbreaking technology.

BeBop Sensors wins Red Herring's Top 100 North America 2019 Award

BeBop Sensors has won Red Herring's Top 100 North America 2019 Award. BeBop Sensors uses smart fabrics to create elegant sensor solutions for OEMs. BeBop's sensors comprehend force, location, size, weight, bend, twist, and presence across any size, resolution, and geometry.

Orbbec

Founded in 2013, Orbbec is a start-up focusing on 3D cameras.

Geek+

Geek+ is a warehouse and logistics robot manufacturer and service provider. It started operations in late 2015.

AISpeech Co., Ltd.

AISpeech—Artificial Intelligent Speech, initially founded in Cambridge U.K. in 2008, is a company focusing on end-to-end spoken dialogue system technology. AISpeech has become a speech technology provider in China, specializing in providing solutions for all kinds of intelligent hardware, such as in-car devices, smart home and robots.

New versus Old Robotics: How everything is changing

In this article, we will describe the upcoming transformation in the world of robotics. This analysis is drawn from our report New Robotics and Drones 2018-2038: Technologies, Forecasts, Players

Artificial Intelligence reads better than humans

A new AI-powered robot is outperforming humans on a reading test.

Mobile robots: key to success lies in fleet productivity

Autonomous mobile robots are causing a paradigm shift in the way we envisage commercial and industrial vehicles.

Voice and facial recognition to ease Shanghai subway

What will the future of transportation look like? Alibaba is working with Shanghai Metro to find out.

Drone delivery: publicity stunt or game changer in instant fulfilment?

The idea of drone delivery sharply divides commentator opinion: some dismiss it as a mere publicity stunt whilst others consider it a game changer that will bring near instant product fulfilment to e-commerce, stripping traditional shops of their last major differentiator.

Autonomous mobility: disrupting last mile delivery using mobile robots

Last mile delivery remains an expensive affair in the parcel delivery business, often representing more than half of the total cost. Its importance is also growing thanks to a change in the composition of total deliveries with B2C deliveries rapidly taking on a bigger share.

Facial recognition payment system

The smile-to-pay service allows customers to place their order via a self-serve screen and to smile at the camera for payment.

Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Let us be more ambitious and look at elimination of all energy storage.

Flashhold warehouse robotics company

Founded in 2014, Flashhold is now the best funded Chinese warehouse robotics company. It has raised more than $30m since early 2017. It is also an adaptation of the Kiva approach to the automation of the goods-to-person task.

Buses reinvented

The very structure of the bus is changing with electrics, mechanics and electronics previously made as "components-in-a-box" being replaced by structural electronics - the roof is the solar, the dashboard is the instruments - all as smart materials.

From RFID to smart home, China is following the world's trend

IDTechEx attended the 2015 Shenzhen International Internet of Things Expo (IOTE) in August.