$1 Drone Delivery
Bloomberg: Amazon Drones Could Deliver Packages for Just $1, Study Suggests “Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed use of drones could drive down the cost to deliver small packages crosstown to about $1 – a...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase Bans Cash
Bank Will No Longer Allow Cash To Be Stored In Safety Deposit BoxesSome JPMorgan Chase customers are receiving letters informing them that the bank will no longer allow cash to be stored in safety...
View ArticleThe Machines Are Coming
The Machines Are Coming – The New York Times “…the machines are getting smarter, and they’re coming for more and more jobs. Not just low-wage jobs, either. Today, machines can process regular spoken...
View ArticleBig Oil Losing Control
“Where we are is in an age of plenty,” said Michael Liebreich, BNEF’s founder. “We have cheap oil, cheap gas, cheap renewables. You do have an abundance of supply in a way you haven’t had for decades....
View ArticleEven Small Businesses Are Jumping on the Robot Bandwagon
Businesses will need to hire no people or fewer people“Businesses will need to hire no people or fewer people,” he said. “You can literally have one person start a manufacturing business.” “Automation...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Same Day
Prime By BedtimeAmazon’s new service will initially be available in 14 metro areas across the US. Over 1 million items will be available for free, same-day shipments. Orders must total more than $35 to...
View ArticleChina’s Robot Revolution
China will have more installed manufacturing robots than any other country by 2017China will have more installed manufacturing robots than any other country by 2017 Foxconn, which makes consumer...
View ArticleTaskRabbit
Most of the tasks fall in the roughly $50-an-hour rangeTaskRabbit, an on-demand platform on which workers set their own hourly rates for gigs that range from the quotidian (installing TVs and moving...
View ArticleUnicycle Drones
Packages could one day be delivered by unicycle drones that swarm together to transport heavy parcelsPackages could one day be delivered by unicycle drones that swarm together to transport heavy...
View ArticleRobots That Don’t Kill Humans
Friendly 'cobots' making the assembly lines safer for humansIn June of 2015 a robot crushed a man to death in a Volkswagen factory in Germany. The 22-year-old maintenance worker became trapped between...
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