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Original Source: http://for.tn/2bTHcxQ by Claire Zillman @clairezillman AUGUST 25, 2016, 8:53 AM EDT “This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea.” Some of the world’s biggest companies—Amazon, Google—are itching to make commercial deliveries by drone, but a pizza restaurant may beat them to it. On Thursday, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises—an international franchiser of the Domino’s Pizza brand—conducted a demonstration ofRead more

Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/2b52NaG Posted Aug 17, 2016 by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)   Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make autonomous flying taxis a real thing for dense urban areas where traffic congestion isRead more

This year’s edition of AUVSI in San Francisco gathered a large crowd comprised of industry experts, OEMs, automobile suppliers, startup companies, government officials, regulators, lawyers, insurance professionals, academics and researchers.   Transportation Secretary Anthony R. Foxx addressing the conference during the opening session.                       Phil Lebeau fromRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1RVDeUq The competition to capture big industrial customers is heating up By Ben Popper on March 7, 2016 12:47 pm The drone business is booming, and companies which manufacture these aerial robots are increasingly trying to produce units that can straddle the divide between the consumer and enterprise market. 3D Robotics, one of the biggest USRead more

Original Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/24/google-robot-is-the-end-of-manual-labor-vc.html Boston Dynamics’ new “Atlas” robot is a game changer, not just for companies, but for society, Insider.com CEO Jason Calacanis said Wednesday. “This is really the end of manual labor. When you watch this video, he’s walking through the snow; he’s wobbly, but he gets back up,” the tech investor told CNBC’s “SquawkRead more

Original Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/02/24/alphabet-unleashes-new-humanoid-robot/ By JACK NICAS The Boston Dynamics unit of Alphabet Inc.GOOGL +0.50% released a video showing a new version of its humanoid robot Atlas walking out of its offices, trudging through a snow-covered forest — and withstanding abuse from its developers. The new Atlas is smaller than its predecessor and not tethered to a power cord,Read more