Electric cars are quick and quiet, with a range more than long enough for most commutes. If you want a car with extremely fast acceleration, the Tesla Model S is hard to beat. And, of course, electric vehicles avoid the pollution associated with conventional cars, including emissions of carbon dioxide from burning gasoline. Yet they account for a tiny fraction of automotive sales, mainly because the batteries that propel them are expensive and need to be recharged frequently.
Three years ago, a Silicon Valley robotics startup called Willow Garage shook things up by offering one of the first robots capable of a wide range of different functions rather than a single focused task.
The so-called PR2 could do anything from folding laundry to picking up something from the floor to delivering a beer, and it was instantly the darling of researchers and robotics fans. The only problem was that it cost $400,000.
If you don’t work in a factory, you probably don’t meet robots very often. But that may change soon — thanks to the Industrial Internet, M2M communication, sensors, data science, and advanced analytics.
In the century following the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, planes have gone through three materials revolutions: wood and fabric fuselages gave way to aluminum and, eventually, to light and strong carbon composites used to make the bodies of the latest planes like Boeing’s Dreamliner and the Airbus A350. But a new and unusual material is now changing the industry again: ceramics.
Breed Reply, the London-based Internet of Things (IoT) incubator run by Italian publicly listed Reply, has announced that it’s backed three new startups in the smart home, health and energy sectors: Cocoon, the UK smart home security startup; BrainControl, an Italian startup that has developed an assistive technology to let disabled people control a computer with brainwaves; and Netherlands’ Greeniant, which provides analytics for smart meters.
Des chercheurs du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Osaka, dont le Pr. Yoshiki Sawa, viennent de mettre au point un patch à appliquer directement sur le coeur qui favoriserait la régénération des vaisseaux sanguins et des cellules myocardiques pour des patients victimes d'insuffisance cardiaque.
Sight Machine Inc., the leader in Big Data for the factory floor, today announced it has raised $5 million in venture capital from a group of investors led by Mercury Fund. The financing round includes participation from new institutional investors Mercury Fund, Michigan eLab, Huron River Ventures, Orfin Ventures, and Funders Club. Existing investors IA Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures also re-invested in this round.
Blueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator has revealed its Winter 2015 Accelerator class (seventh class) of seven digital health startups to its portfolio. Blueprint is a member of TechStars’ Global Accelerator Network. Today’s addition of seven companies brings the accelerator’s total to 60 digital health with more than 140 entrepreneurs in Blueprint’s alumni community.
A lot of ink has been spilled about the Coolest Cooler, a re-imagined picnic cooler equipped with a built-in blender, waterproof Bluetooth speaker, and UBS charger (among other things). To fund the project, inventor Ryan Grepper of Portland, OR, raised a record $13.3 million from 62,642 backers last summer on Kickstarter.
A stroke or traumatic brain injury starts a race against the clock. Neurosurgeons, emergency room doctors, and paramedics have to take action to limit the damage as quickly as possible before it spreads and devastates portions of the patient’s brain, taking functions such as speech, movement, and memory with it.
After that desperate sprint comes a grueling marathon as patients and their families are joined by different medical specialists. Physical, speech, and occupational therapists replace doctors as the goal becomes helping patients recover what was lost and rebuild their lives.
