Safety and transportation

‘Rango’ – Makes White cane for visually impaired into a smart cane that can help avoid obstacles.

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France-based startup GoSense has developed electronic device that can be added to a white cane for visually impaired to help avoid any obstacles. By attaching it to a regular white cane, Rango allows users to sense and avoid any obstacles they may come across. It provides users with head to toe and shoulder-width protection. Rango is a fully virtual smart shield that protects users by locating and identifying obstacles that represent real danger. Used in combination with Wizigo’s feature...
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Mov.ai – robotics engine platform that provides autonomous robot manufacturers everything they need to quickly build it.

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Mov.ai is a robotics engine platform provides autonomous robot manufacturers everything they need to quickly build, deploy and operate enterprise grade robots. It provides Out-of-the-box tools and infrastructure for AMR manufacturers - to develop unique, easy to deploy AMRs / AGVs at a fraction of the time and cost. Developing Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and AGVs that integrate with existing environments is complex and time-consuming. MOV.AI’s ROS-based Robotics Engine Platform ch...
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Velodyne’s Puck ‘lidar’ sensor

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Velodyne's Puck lidar sensor (previously VLP-16) is the highest-value sensor on the market. The Puck™'s reliability, power efficiency, and surround view make it the ideal solution for affordable low-speed autonomy and driver assistance applications. https://youtu.be/Oeq3r8dlz9M Lidar — Light Detection and Ranging — is a remote sensing method used to examine the surface of the Earth. NOAA scientists use lidar-generated products to examine both natural and manmade environments. ...
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‘Yandex’ – Autonomous robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States

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Yandex, a Russian tech company working on self-driving systems, is partnering with GrubHub to deploy a fleet of delivery robots. Autonomous robots will soon deliver food to students on college campuses in the United States. The small six-wheeled autonomous robot — dubbed Yandex Rover — has started delivering orders from Yandex's food delivery service. https://youtu.be/gGmXq_6AkGw As part of the initial testing phase, Yandex.Rover just started operating on the Yandex campus in Mos...
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‘JD’ China Smart Delivery VAN

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JD’s smart delivery vehicle is the world’s first application of Level-4 autonomous driving technology on public roads without any human interaction. JD.com is the largest online retailer in China. With over 300 million customers, we have a vast network of warehouses and delivery stations, and deliver most orders in less than a day. Leveraging intelligent robots based on the NVIDIA Jetson platform, JD brings AI to the field of logistics and supply chain, and continues to expand its res...
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Tesla Owner Builds Retractable Automatic Charger

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Tesla owner in Romania has built a homemade Powerwall. Tesla owner has officially built an automatically deploying and retracting vehicle charger in the garage, according to a new YouTube video from Pat Larson (via Reddit). Using a raspberry pi to run the automated software, the owner built a fully extending charger arm, which effectively plugs into the car automatically before beginning to charge. The Raspberry Pi is equipped with a machine learning framework called TensorFlow, wh...
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Hyundai E-GMP (Electric Global Modular Platform)

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Hyundai E-GMP is a dedicated electric vehicle platform for Hyundai Motor Group automobiles. It is the first electric-only dedicated platform by Hyundai. It is to be used for Hyundai and Kia automobiles from 2021. Hyundai engineered the charging system and battery to add more than 60 miles of driving range after five minutes of high-powered fast-charging and to achieve an 80% charge in less than 20 minutes. Hyundai also claims it may add wireless EV charging capability in the future. http...
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Auto-Vox TW1 Truly Wireless Backup Camera

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TW1 Truly Wireless Backup camera 5Mins DIY Installation, 720P Super Night Vision Rear View Camera and 5'' LCD Monitor with Digital Signal, 2 Channel Support to Monitor/Reverse for Trucks/Car 5Mins DIY Installation: No drilling, no wiring, no reverse light required in the vehicle, everyone can install it within 5 mins by using a screwdriver only. The backup camera can be flexible to snap into the top/bottom of any standard U.S. license plate frame. All-in-One Backup Camera: Compact ...
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‘Anthenea’ – Solar-powered ‘floating eco friendly suite’ for tomorrow’s habitat

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'Anthenea’ pod is a floating eco-hotel suite that runs only on solar power. the autonomous electric pod is designed for a new kind of tourism that addresses the many environmental challenges of our time, including: rising sea levels, the effects of climate change, the overdensity of the seaboard, and places congested by tourism. Half-boat, half-futuristic pod, the Anthenea is a bold take on sea-bound tourism. While we’ve already seen everything from an underwater Maldives hotel to an ele...
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Superior Roads ‘Python’ – Pot Hole Patcher.

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Python Pothole Patchers represent a whole new approach to repairing potholes and maintaining your roads. It allows to repair potholes while they are still small and extend the life of your roads. The Python 5000+ makes long-lasting repairs using standard asphalt mixes – either hot or cold and has the unique ability to make continuous repairs to long cracks and joins in the road. One person can keep your roads in good repair all year round.  Python 5000 is a self-propelled pothole ...
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‘CrossHelmet’ – Next Generation Motorcycle Helmet with Sound Control, 360° Visibility & HUD

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CrossHelmet is a next generation Motorcycle Helmet With Sound Control, 360° Visibility & HUD. Futuristic Features & Design. Everything You Need To Upgrade Your Ride. Head-up display. Different visors. With the only dual-monitor HUD system in the market, the CrossHelmet’s bifocal display projects a crisp and clear image in even the worst lighting conditions. Essential riding information such as route directions, weather, and time is customizable and overlaid for easy access, so you ca...
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‘Savant’s iQ-CAN’ – Automatic Guided Vehicle System

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Savant’s iQ-CAN™ Automatic Guided Vehicle System Technology provides a Total System Solution by integrating the three core system elements into a unified product.  This produces countless user benefits including lower cost & risk, greater functionality & reliability, friendlier user interface, easier & quicker change with infinite scalability Savant Automation, Inc. sells, engineers, installs, and services a full line of Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems including automatic gu...
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Embark – Self-driving Trucks

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Embark is building self-driving truck technology to make roads safer and transportation more efficient.  Embark’s truck uses a combination of radars, cameras and depth sensors known as LiDARs to perceive the world around it. Millions of data points from these sensors are processed using a form of artificial intelligence known as Deep Neural Nets (or DNNs) that allow the truck to learn from its own experience—much like humans learn from practice. Alex Rodrigues - CEO and Co-Founder - Embar...
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Kiwibot – robotics delivery

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Kiwibot provides a turnkey robotic delivery service for Restaurant chains, delivery apps & Governments. Last-mile delivery is incredibly expensive; we reduce cost of last mile delivery by 40% YoY, kiwibot team continue to work with the customers until we get to <$1. Cutting-edge behavioral neural network, Kiwibots are able to seamlessly mesh into the fabric of urban landscapes. https://youtu.be/iyO9TJHEQ7E Technology used by kiwibots, like Smart Brake and Street Crossing Mo...
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AIRBUS ZEROe – zero-emission Hydrogen propulsion commercial aircraft by 2035.

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Hydrogen propulsion to power future aircraft Airbus has a ambition to develop the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft by 2035. Hydrogen propulsion will help deliver on this ambition. Blended-Wing Body (BWB)The exceptionally wide interior opens up multiple options for hydrogen storage and distribution. Here, the liquid hydrogen storage tanks are stored underneath the wings. Two hybrid hydrogen turbofan engines provide thrust. All three ZEROe concepts are hydrogen-hybrid air...
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Saudi Arabia’s new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City

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Saudi Arabia's new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City, a $500 billion city-state. Neom is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. Neom is a planned as a futuristic city with state of the art modern technology buildings, flying taxis, robot ... Saudi Arabia wants the country to become a technological and innovation hub. NEOM wi...
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SAFR – AI-powered real-time facial recognition

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SAFR for Security is the premier facial recognition solution for live video that’s both highly accurate and tuned for rapid performance. With 99.87 percent accuracy, SAFR for Security can instantly detect and match millions of faces in real time, even under challenging conditions where faces are in motion, at different angles, under poor lighting conditions, or partially obscured – reducing the number of false alarms and simplifying a security professional’s ability to secure an area with confi...
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‘Three Square Market’ Microchip – ‘RFID’

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Three Square Market (32M) became the first company in the United States to offer implanted microchips to its employees.  Their August 1 chip party, where over 50 employees were microchipped, some on live television, sparked worldwide debate and coverage. Their story generated over 1.5 billion hits on their websites in a few weeks and brought visits from major media outlets, Katie Couric, the Today Show and more.  32M promised then to introduce technology that ...
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AHA, one of Iceland’s largest eCommerce companies, partnered with Flytrex to expand its’ delivery bandwidth and find new, efficient ways to deliver goods to customers around the city of Reykjavik.

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Drone delivery company Flytrex  partnered with AHA, Iceland's largest online marketplace, to provide delivery by drone in Reykjavik.The partnership creates the world's "first operational on-demand urban drone delivery service. https://youtu.be/lwmgAd2TTIY " Using drones, Reykjavik's food and consumer goods delivery industry will reduce costs by increasing efficiency, reducing energy consumption and streamlining delivery logistics. The Icelandic Transport Authority approved the companies...
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Tesla battery researcher unveils new chemistry to increase lifecycle at high voltage

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Historical data from Tesla’s current battery packs show about 5% capacity degradation after 50,000 miles (80,000 km) and the capacity levels off for about 150,000 more miles before hitting 90% capacity. Those are already pretty good results, but Tesla aims to do better with Jeff Dahn, a renowned battery researcher and the leader of Tesla’s research partnership through his battery-research group at Dalhousie University. The scientist and his team recently unveiled their latest research on a...
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Chinese Automaker BYD Delivers First Electric Truck to US Freight

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BYD Motors Inc. is supplying 11 zero-emission battery electric trucks to SF Goodwill for use in the San Francisco region collecting and transporting donations. The 10 delivery trucks and one refuse truck will be assembled at BYD Motors’ facility in Lancaster. SF Goodwill, which serves San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, will use the delivery trucks for collections and to transport donations among its stores and drop off locations and the refuse truck as a debris hauler for transpo...
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China will host the World Economic Forum’s annual June meeting, often called Summer Davos on June 27 – 29 2017

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China will host the World Economic Forum's annual June meeting, often called Summer Davos on June 27 - 29 2017. The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation. Hundreds of business and research leaders are gathering in the Chinese city of Tianjin for the annual World Economic Forum. Innovation is in the spotlight for the current 'Summer Davos'. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foun...
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NASA Aircraft Assists in FAA-Approved Drone Medical Supply Delivery Research

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Some underserved Virginia patients were among the first to be officially helped by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), more commonly known as a drone, during research flights to a medical clinic in Wise County Friday. In accordance with research flight plans authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a full-sized aircraft operated by NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton and a hexacopter drone operated by Flirtey Inc., a drone startup company, delivered pharmaceuticals and ot...
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‘Vix’ technology is modernizing the transit to better passenger experience

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Vix Pulse is a high-performance, secure, reliable and auditable automated fare collection and transit payments solution that is shaping the future of transit as well the passenger experience. A number of business and technology trends are impacting public transport and fare collection and are driving change and innovation. Wireless communications such as 4G and WiFi mean data can flow increasingly in real time, while the cloud is making processing and storage capacity increasingly cost-effect...
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Wireless motorcycle helmet has smart brake light that shines at motorist eye level

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The brake lights on your motorcycle work okay. But they're mounted low on your bike and don't account for different types of braking. The new Wireless motorcycle helmet has beend evloped with smart brake light that shines at motorist eye level. Motorcycle helmets are beneficial safety gear, but only in a "In case of emergency, break glass" sort of way, when things are already bad. California startup Brake Free wants to make your helmet useful in preventing the emergency in the first place, bu...
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George Mason University has developed fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to extinguish fire

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Engineering students Seth Robertson and Viet Tran of George Mason University in Virginia have invented a revolutionary device that uses low-frequency sound waves to extinguish fire instead of water, gas or foam. The young engineers used $600 worth of equipment, including a speaker, amps and a collimeter, to starve the flame of oxygen, thus putting it out. The fire extinguisher uses low frequencies between 30 and 60 hertz ranges to blast the fire, separating oxygen from the fuel. New typ...
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Airbus has developed a Pop.Up drone-car concept which was showcased at the 87th Geneva International Motor Show.

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Airbus has developed a Pop.Up drone-car concept which was showcased at the 87th Geneva International Motor Show. Logistically, Pop.Up is part of Airbus’s Project Vahana, a vision of the company’s A^3 advanced projects and partnerships unit located in Silicon Valley — an area prone to gridlock, Airbus has noted. Project Vahana focuses on developing a self-piloted flying vehicle platform for passengers and cargo — and Pop.Up. is a passenger component. https://youtu.be/Yh-OD7_Qw20 Pop.Up c...
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JAGUAR LAND ROVER ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH INCLUDES BRAIN WAVE MONITORING TO IMPROVE DRIVER CONCENTRATION AND REDUCE ACCIDENTS

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Jaguar Land Rover has revealed a range of new road safety technology research projects that are being developed to reduce the number of accidents caused by drivers who are stressed, distracted and not concentrating on the road ahead. The Jaguar Land Rover 'Sixth Sense' research projects utilises advanced technology, from sports, medicine and aerospace, to monitor the driver's heart rate, respiration and levels of brain activity to identify driver stress, fatigue and lack of concentration. The...
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The Hyperloop: The world’s fastest way to travel.

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Ever since humans began to invent, we were trying to find ways to go faster. From creating saddles and horse drawn carriages to creating cars and airplanes, we always have striven for faster and faster means of transportation. The current fastest mode of commercial transportation is air transportation, with the average speed of a passenger plane being 540 miles per hour. However, inventor Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, proposed an idea back in late 2012 for a new mode of transportation ...
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‘Ping’ World’s smallest, longest range, longest battery life global (GPS) locator for kids, pets, bikes, luggage or anything important that moves.

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World's smallest, longest range, longest battery life global (GPS) locator for kids, pets, bikes, luggage or anything important that moves. Instead of just Bluetooth, Ping's tag also connects to GPS and cellular, to ensure you'll know exactly where you left that forgotten item.   https://youtu.be/a-pPXPtfREo     Bluetooth trackers, like Tile and TrackR, are great for finding things that fall behind cushions or car seats. GPS trackers already exist but they are la...
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