The idea is to deploy teams of these robot forest rangers across many kilometres of forest, for regular maintenance as well as in emergency situations. The team of three robots can safely and quickly access locations dangerous for humans.Rikko, Chunk and Dixon are three sustainable Forest Ranger Druids created by industrial design student Segev Kaspi. Currently in the concept stage, each of the...

Luxury brands are more resilient in a crisis, but they must create extreme value. Here are the five ways to do that in 2022. Key Takeaways:While there is a lot of staff training, and many brands have adapted metrics like net promoter score (NPS) to measure their in-store performances, the numbers often can trick brands.Brands need to organize all customer-centric activities around the idea of l...

U.S. patent application, US20210333529, discloses a folded camera. The folded camera includes two light folding elements such as prisms and an independent lens system located between the two prisms. The lens system includes an aperture stop and a lens stack and is movable independent of the prisms, on one or more axes, to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization for the camera. The...

The software maker is embracing the buzzy concept with new products due next year.If you’re worried the metaverse will be all fun and games, fear not: Microsoft Corp. is taking its own stab at the idea, and it will have PowerPoint and Excel.The company is adapting its signature software products to create a more corporate version of the metaverse — a concept promoted by Facebook co-founder Ma...

Digitization has become prevalent among transportation and logistics (T&L) companies, improving all upstream and downstream facets of the industry. This process has created unprecedented efficiencies targeted at expanding revenue streams.That’s the good news. The downside is that digitization has exposed a series of shortcomings among T&L companies that have made them extremely vulnera...

Window washers are the next in line to see their jobs replaced by robots.Even if they’re not afraid of heights, it still takes someone with nerves of steel to work as a window washer, dangling a hundred floors above the ground with a squeegee in hand. A company called Skyline Robotics wants to make window washing much safer because instead of humans, the lift that’s lowered down the side of a...

Newzoo released a report with new insights on American gamers. Not only do Americans prefer games over any other leisure activity (though not by a large margin), they also prefer games with puzzle-solving mechanics.One of the points of data in the new report is that gaming is the most popular leisure activity for American under the age of 50. The amount of American respondents aged 10 to 20 who...

This kitchen’s secret sauce is a flexible, hidden, induction cooktop – and it is flexible! Lapitech, an Italian company, created a cooking system that could be fully concealed under a modern sintered stone kitchen counter! It is activated by a technological cooking mat and the innovative system features an electrothermal part developed in collaboration with the University of Padua. Lapitec Ch...

Proving performance could boost battery manufacturers’ confidence in reused materials. Without recycling, manufacturers may run out of resources needed to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and other devices in the decades to come.Lithium-ion batteries with recycled cathodes can outperform batteries with cathodes made from pristine materials, lasting for thousands of...