A German firm called Magazino believes it has built a better warehouse robot: the Toru. Unlike the robots used in Amazon warehouses that help locate items for shipping by moving entire shelves, Toru robots can pick up individual items.
“The [Amazon] approach saves a lot of human work spent on walking around, but there is still the need for a human worker to eventually pick the item off the shelf,” explains Magazino CEO and cofounder Frederik Brantner (see “Inside Amazon’s Warehouse, Human-Robot Symbiosis”).
The company has yet to release any details of how the robo-carts work. But the news highlights how rapidly automation is moving into shopping and warehouse fulfillment. It also shows how keen Walmart is to embrace any technology that might help it counter the shift toward online shopping and faster product delivery. Just a few weeks ago, Walmart also said it was testing whether drones could help check the inventory in its stores.
Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon tumors in mice with mismatch repair deficiency. The research team, headed by the Center's director MYUNG Kyungjae, made the announcement in a manuscript published in the American Association for Cancer Research on June 6th. It is a significant breakthrough for the future treatment of colon cancer patients; specifically for those with DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficient tumors.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is working with a robotics company to develop a shopping cart that helps customers find items on their lists and saves them from pushing a heavy cart through a sprawling store and parking lot, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Such carts are an emerging opportunity for robotics companies as brick-and-mortar stores look for innovative ways to match the convenience of Amazon.com Inc. and other online retailers, said Wendy Roberts, founder and chief executive officer of Five Elements Robotics.
El consejero delegado de Tesla, Elon Musk, ha propuesto adquirir cada acción de SolarCity a un precio de entre 26,5 y 28,5 dólares, lo que supone una prima superior al 20% respecto al valor de los títulos al cierre de la jornada bursátil de este martes.
Tesla ha hecho pública una oferta para hacerse con el fabricante estadounidense de paneles solares SolarCity, en una operación que podría alcanzar los 2.800 millones de dólares (unos 2.500 millones de euros).
Afirmaba Peter Drucker que “La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es creándolo”. El BAC de MONDRAGON comparte este precepto, así como la creencia de que la principal estrategia existente para generar empleo y riqueza social es la creación de nuevas empresas.
En este contexto, el BAC de MONDRAGON anuncia la 6ª edición de SAIOKA, una iniciativa que se inscribe en el marco de las estrategias necesarias para materializar un salto cualitativo en la actividad emprendedora de MONDRAGON, y su propósito radica en la detección y promoción de emprendedores en el seno de nuestras cooperativas.
Merlin Properties y Metrovacesa han acordado este martes fusionarse para dar origen al primer grupo inmobiliario español y uno de los mayores de Europa. La operación dará lugar a la constitución de dos sociedades filiales: una que será propietaria de la cartera de patrimonio terciario (oficinas y centros comerciales) y otra la de viviendas en alquiler. La primera sociedad sumará activos por valor de 9.317 millones de euros, con unas rentas brutas anuales de 450 millones, y tendrá al Banco Santander como primer accionista. La segunda integrará todo el patrimonio residencial en arrendamiento de las dos sociedades, valorado en 980 millones.
48.000 personas cada año (8.000 más que en estudios precedentes) mueren cada año prematuramente en Francia a causa de la contaminación atmosférica. Es la tercera causa después del tabaco y el alcohol. Este es el resultado de la investigación realizada por la agencia Salud Pública Francia y publicada este martes. El dato llega en un momento particularmente sensible para Francia, un país empeñado en transformar su modelo energético con drásticas medidas tendentes a acabar con los más nocivos contaminantes del aire como el diésel.
Berlin-based startup Number26 just raised a $40 million Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. With 200,000 clients, Number26 wants to become a major consumer-facing bank in Europe providing all the services you’d expect from your bank. And this funding round is an important milestone in order to reach this goal.
Battery Ventures, Robert Gentz, David Schneider and Rubin Ritteralso also participated in today’s round. Existing investors Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Earlybird Ventures and Redalpine Ventures re-invested as well.
In Q1'16, there were over 140 deals to startups focused on AI. Khosla Ventures emerges as most active VC investor in the category.
Equity deals to startups in artificial intelligence — including companies applying AI solutions to verticals like healthcare, advertising, and finance as well as those developing general-purpose AI tech — increased nearly 6x, from roughly 70 in 2011 to nearly 400 in 2015.
Q1’16 saw a new peak in deal activity to the category.
Using the CB Insights database, we studied funding trends to AI-based companies, including:
