The robotics industry continues to grow as enterprises look to automate an increasing number of processes across their organizations. According to McKinsey, 88% of businesses plan to fold robotics automation into their infrastructure in the coming months. And companies based in North America ordered more than 31,000 robotics systems in 2020, bringing the industry’s revenue to an estimated over...

New at CES: A "Lab" You Can Wear on Your Arm. "You forget that it’s there.In a keynote address at the conference, Robert Ford, the chairman of the board and CEO of Abbott Labs, announced his company's bid to help people keep track of what's happening inside their bodies. Products in the company's new "Lingo" line are consumer-oriented “biowearable” sensors that monitor glucose, ketone, lacta...

During times of uncertainty though, we’re even more eager to predict what’s to come. To satisfy this demand, thousands of prognosticators share their views publicly as one year closes and another begins. In hindsight, we see varying levels of success at predicting the future.[click to enalarge]In truth, experts are merely guessing at what will happen over the coming year. In 2020, almost nobo...

As Pepsi prepares for its eleventh year as the title sponsor of the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the beverage giant takes The Drum behind the scenes of its plan to elevate the entertainment experience.This year’s Super Bowl will reside in Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium. The sparkling venue will host five of the most iconic hip-hop artists of all time: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. B...

Frey's detergent sheets save water and reduce plastic waste.The dissolvable sheets can be used in place of liquid detergents, saving water while reducing plastic pollutionSpotted: Doing the laundry is one of life’s daily rituals. But how we keep our clothes clean matters. Today, liquid detergents remain common. These use up a lot of water and often come in non-recyclable plastic packaging. Now...

The “CES 2022 Trends to Watch” session gives members of the media a look at the trends that are shaping the industry.Autonomous car races, loneliness remedies and carbon neutrality top this year's list of tech trends to watch at CES. The Omicron variant hasn't kept the future of technology from showing up in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES.“Innovation tends t...

If the 17.3-inch, 21:10 display wasn't strange enough, the deck houses a secondary 8-inch touchscreen.CES 2022 has been strange for a lot of reasons, and now you can add another, because one of the coolest things shown at this year’s event is a...business laptop?Lenovo already gave business customers a fun toy to play with when it launched the ThinkPad X1 Fold, and now it’s releasing the Thin...

Smart spaces, homomorphic encryption, generative AI, graph technologies and the metaverse will disrupt and transform entire markets.Impact Radar for 2022Most of this year's emerging technologies and trends are three to eight years out from reaching early majority. This signals that significant innovation will happen in the years ahead. Let’s look at the five we think will prove most interestin...

Carbon nanotubes built into the structure of paper form the basis of a sensor technology that could transform the interaction between people and digital devices.Somalytics, a startup launched in November 2021 to commercialise technology developed by researchers at the University of Washington (in collaboration with CoMotion), is showing off two innovative sensor-driven devices at CES 2022. Soma...