By equipping a smart, connected product with more sensors, a company can get a broader view of how a product functions (including real-time insights), open new ways to improve its performance (in real time as well) and more. However, it’s not enough just to add new sensors to the existing ones to improve visibility into the state and performance of these products. As the number of sensors increases, the volume of the data coming from these sensors will grow as well—and such a situation needs a specific approach to establishing all the big data-related processes: data ingesting, storing, processing and analyzing.

With a bionic eye, superhuman eyesight is now possible! To top that off, this bionic eye can also restore eyesight to the blind. With a few more tweaks and problem solving, we might be able to see these in the future to come.

Soon, the Barrier Reef will have its own robotic protector. Introducing the autonomous drone RangerBot! It is a multipurpose machine that can extend itself even further than a human diver and at half the cost.

The new advancement in camera technology with lens free camera has opened new doors for more technology! With this advancement, many glass surfaces could be turned into cameras, such as windows of autonomous vehicles.

Cinema camera company RED’s first smartphone has been promising big features since last summer, but despite pre-orders already being underway, few official details have been available on the smartphone outside of the holographic display.

NASA is considering an astronaut crewed along with SpaceX’s fuel rockets. Before the approval, SpaceX must successfully demonstrate their process 5 times first.

HANDSFREE CHARGING. Electric vehicles (EVs) have a lot going for them. They’re better for the environment than their gas-guzzling predecessors; they can save nations billions of dollars in healthcare costs. Some even look pretty cool.

There will be as many as 40 million charging points globally by 2030 as electric vehicles are forecast to make up about 11% of new sales, a new report states.

Something unusual is happening on farms in the small Central American nation of El Salvador. Many fields, mainly of sugar cane, are now being tended by drones.

The future transportation will take us to newer heights in terms of presenting new solutions for our every day use and of course, with better speed and efficiency

When you try to reverse engineer the secret sauce for a wildly successful new product, you probably don’t start by wondering how the procurement team worked its magic. Engineering and marketing get all the glory when the latest gizmo becomes a customer favorite. As consumer expectations for quality, innovation, ethics, and cost continue to rise, new products are critical to competitive advantage. And procurement is often the critical component to getting that product to market.

If you’re in electronics, you know that the Internet of Things (IoT) is huge. From consumer products to industrial applications, IoT is transforming the way we interact with the physical and digital world. And supply chain is no different. A discipline that was once plagued by guesswork and firefighting is now stepping into the modern era, as IoT technologies are giving supply chain managers access to a new level of visibility into their in-transit goods.

An experimental robot assistant for astronauts will redefine work at the International Space Station, and its IBM-powered brain is available for terrestrial jobs, too.

With the rise of e-commerce and the shipping standards set by Amazon, customers now have rising expectations on global delivery. Retailers and couriers are embracing this challenge, using automation and technology to make supply chain logistics faster, easier, and compatible with the 21st century.

Meet Versius. Versius is expected to be in operating rooms by the end of 2018 to assist surgeons with keyhole procedures. This could possibly lower the need for open surgery and cut down a surgeons keyhole surgery learning curve from 50-60 hours to only 30 minutes!

When we first met the Cheetah, a four-legged robot built by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the machine was, frankly, not all that fascinating. Sure, it could run pretty quickly for a robot. But at 10 mph, the Cheetah was hardly as impressive as Boston Dynamics’ line of robo-dogs, nor could it keep up with its living, feline counterpart.

A smart bandage, capable of monitoring a wound and delivering periodic drug treatments, has been developed by a team of researchers at Tufts University. Currently just a prototype, the technology detailed in a recent paper in the journal Small could someday help transform medical treatment, enabling a doctor to more closely monitor her patient’s condition, while more actively treating it.

NIBIB-funded researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an ingestible sensor to non-invasively monitor indicators of disease in the stomach and intestines.

Mobile service providers (MSP) are starting a bit late getting into the smart manufacturing industry. With the smart industry as is, it seems to be getting on just fine without MSPs. Will they be able to compete and offer more than just 5G to be needed and relevant?

How much money would you throw at a company promising to deliver Jetsons-like flying cars? If you’re anything like the venture capitalists involved with German aviation startup Lilium Aviation, the answer is $90 million. That is how much they invested in a recently completed Series B funding round.