Rising labor costs and rents worldwide are driving retail establishments toward a mechanical future, potentially leaving 66 million human workers in jeopardy.
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Consider These 4 Questions When Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines
A major step toward improving your site’s SEO is evaluating your content and metrics.
Get Ready For Humanoids
Memphis at 1 am is quite possibly the busiest airport without passengers on the globe. Touring the 880 acre FedEx facility, I marveled at the speed and efficiency of the automation technologies that can process close to a half a million shipments an hour and 250 flights a day. The cargo hub is a shining example […]
Tap Systems Raises Seed Funding to Make Tapping Insanely Powerful
Imagine editing a document from the comfort of your own leg. Well, now you can with Tap Systems, the wearable mouse and keyboard that sits at the base of your fingers. This wearable works on any surface and you can send commands to any Bluetooth connected device (think phone, tablet, or laptop). This groundbreaking technology […]
Ice-Bot Cometh: Building Self-Reliant Unmanned Systems
Last June, a massive dust storm engulfed Mars and immobilized the most famous robots in the galaxy, Opportunity and Curiosity. This is not the first time that Martian dirt has prevented Opportunity from recharging its solar panels. Its creators originally predicted that the planet’s harsh weather conditions would limit the rover’s mission to ninety sols (the […]
Disney Launches New Era Of Autonomy With Gravity-Defying Stickmen And More
Ever since the première of “Steamboat Willie” in 1928, The Walt Disney Company has pushed the envelope of imagination. Mickey Mouse is still more popular worldwide than any single human actor. In fact, from that one cel an entire world of animated characters was birthed. The entertainment powerhouse demonstrated last week a new generation of […]
The Next Wave in Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery Market
Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery Market is expected to garner $20.5B by 2022. Medical robotics and computer-assisted surgical system are a technologically advanced surgical, rehabilitation, and assistive solutions used mainly during complicated surgical procedures, physical complications, and hospital automation. The medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery industry is majorly segmented into surgical, rehabilitation, non-invasive radiosurgery, […]
5 Rules For Market-Focused Versus Technology Solution
Technical entrepreneurs love their technology and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem, since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters […]
Less Minimal, More Viable: Creating Better MVPs
I had the exceptional luck to work with Eric Ries at both the company that was his inspiration for The Lean Startup, and the company that was his catalyst for the change needed to build companies differently. One of the fundamental ideas from The Lean Startup is the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), a product strategy now widely embraced […]
We Propose a New Stack for the Net
Back in the ancient tech times, when phone signals traveled over wires and TV signals traveled through the air, the limitations of then-existing hardware and software compelled a layered, flexible approach toward getting any information from Point A to Point B. The most elegant and powerful solution to this situation was the TCP/IP stack, which […]
This LA Startup is the One Stop Shop for Direct-to-Consumer Subscription Businesses
Subscriptions have been around forever and increasing in popularity, especially in the Los Angeles market. OceanX is the subscription commerce technology platform that recognizes the lucrative potential behind brand management and subscription services. Specializing in business intelligence for brands and retailers that are looking to execute large-scale subscription programs, the company is an off-shoot of the […]