The pandemic and resulting economic toll has presented challenging headwinds for startups. In this post we look back on Q2 ending funding trends for IoT startups to determine the trajectory of innovation in this emerging technology sector.Below we see that the number of funding events per quarter has been on a downward trend, with 86 deals closing in Q2. This implies that new innovations in the...

Across the globe in 2018, 2.5 million babies died within their first month of life. Collectively, Africa and Southern Asia made up approximately 87.7% of these deaths. – UNICEFTo address this issue, designers Chris Barnes and others at Cambridge Consultants of Cambridge, UK have designed a wearable health monitor for newborns in areas where current solutions are not easily available. Called ‘...

Russian design agency depot has developed the new branding identity for milgrad’s bryansk dairy plant.Knowing that the dairy market occupies more than 22% of the FMCG food product structure, the design aims to stand out on the dairy shelf, increase sales, expand the geography of representation and distribution channels while showcasing a humorous, kind and sweet response. the result? a blue ca...

How six companies are using technology and data to transform themselves.A study referenced in the popular magazine Psychology Today concluded that it takes an average of 66 days for a behavior to become automatic. If that’s true, that’s good news for business leaders who have spent the past five months running their companies in ways they never could have imagined. The COVID-19 pandemic is a...

Roughly a year ago, Scale and NuTonomy released a driverless data set called NuScenes that they claimed at the time surpassed corpora like KITTI, Baidu’s ApolloScape, and the Udacity Self-Driving Car library in size, scale, and accuracy. Since then, new and more diverse corpora like the Waymo Open Dataset, the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Dataset, and Lyft’s autonomous vehicle data set have emerge...

Tesla has repeatedly defied its naysayers throughout its history. Lots of people are still betting against the company, and its infamous CEO Elon Musk has had to prove his worth over and over again en route to captaining the most valuable carmaker in the world. But how did Tesla get here?Tesla’s share price originally jumped in May 2013 when the company first turned a profit. Now that Tesla ha...

No additional power needed, just... print and play ?A research team from Purdue University has developed a way to transform regular paper sheets into a machine input interface. To demonstrate their invention, the team came up with an interactive food packaging solution to verify the safety of food and a music player interface.The study is published in the Nano Energy journal.Ramses Martinez tol...

Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on company operations and office spaces. From autonomous cleaning devices to tighter cybersecurity measures, here are the technologies influencing how the office could look during the reopening process and beyond.The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives, including tasks as fundamental as going to work.While many office workers are...

Sarcos Robotics secured $40 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing round Tuesday.The Salt Lake City-based company produces robots that augment humans to enhance productivity and safety.Rotor Capital led the round, which included most of the company’s existing investors, such as Schlumberger, the company said in a written release. With the new funding, the company has raised a total of...