Posts Tagged: robotics
House Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management
A joint hearing of the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and the House Subcommittee on Space was recently convened to discuss the responsibilities of various U.S. …
AI-Driven Innovation: Can & Should it Be Regulated?
Historically, legal decisions have dismissed the notion of a machine or autonomous program being the inventor. In fact, as a recent contribution to Lexology states, “Congress has …
What Do Cloud Robotics Mean for Driverless Cars?
When you think of autonomous cars or driverless vehicles, you probably don’t associate them with cloud computing and data analytics. However, that’s exactly the technology …
Trump picks automation supporting fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary
Automation technology in the restaurant industry, such as interactive kiosks that replace waiters by taking customer orders, is both a cost-cutting move and an investment in improved …
Ethical, legal questions arise as scientists work to teach robots to feel pain
One way we use robots is the navigation of dangerous situations, in which robots perform tasks that would put a human worker at high risk of injury …
Autonomous robots report shows half of use cases are outside of self-driving car sector
To get a better idea of the scope of the autonomous robot market, intellectual property analysis firm Innography recently released a trends report focusing on the autonomous …
Autonomous Vehicles to Include Self-Driving Shopping Carts?
According to the patent application filed by Walmart, the system will utilize a series of docking stations, sensors, motors and cameras to offer consumers the ability to "…
Advances in exoskeleton tech provide the gift of walking to paraplegic patients
Powered exoskeletons, which can improve a person’s gait, are starting to gain traction as a new area of bionic development, which could potentially improve the lives …
Canon already with more than 300 patents in 2016, pursues plastics and photoacoustic imaging tech
Our latest survey of patents issued recently to Canon include a couple of imaging technologies related to medical diagnostics, such as is the case with the imaging …
EsoGlove, developed in Singapore, applies robotics to hand and nerve rehabilitation
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a robotic glove designed to improve patient rehabilitation after injuries or nerve-related conditions that may have affected a …
Blizzard response may be aided by salt-infused asphalt, robotic snow plows
Some tech firms are trying to go all-in on AI solutions for snow removal by developing autonomous, self-driving snow plows that could be deployed without human operators. …
The Top 10 Patents Issued in 2015
2015 was a truly remarkable year for innovation and we saw major trends in self-driving cars, wearable technologies, digital wallets and much more. I hope you will enjoy …
Disney loses TV subscribers but innovates in amusement rides and robotics
Through most of 2015, the Walt Disney Company had earned a total of 206 U.S. patent grants from all of its subsidiaries, with significant development in the fields …
Automation will cause worker displacement but will also create jobs
Google, now Alphabet Inc., is one of the world’s most valuable companies but employs only a tenth of the number of workers of past giants of …
Advances in farming robotics could address shortage in agricultural workers
With American farmers already heavily involved in the regulatory conversation involving the commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, we thought that it would be …
