Transformative Technology

Robotics

High-five an Olympic Athlete: Robots to Virtually Transport Fans to Tokyo 2020

October 16, 2019

While sports enthusiasts are planning their July 2020 trips to Tokyo for the summer Olympic Games, Toyota Motor Corporation is stirring up the telepresence robot market with models that help remote fans interact with athletes and virtually attend the games, assist guests with disabilities, fetch javelins and more.

Data Management

Four Ways Travel and Tourism Companies Are Capitalizing on Travelers’ Digital Footprints

February 27, 2019

As globetrotting becomes more accessible and popular than ever before, there’s great potential for companies to use data to anticipate traveler preferences, improve customer experiences, access untapped leads, and boost their bottom lines.

Artificial Intelligence

A Deep Dive Into Deep Learning

July 17, 2018

How the human brain works has puzzled researchers for millennia — so actually building a brain from scratch is an unquestionably daunting task. But that’s essentially what scientists today are attempting to do within a subset of AI dubbed Deep Learning.

Artificial Intelligence

This Deep Learning Technology Is Redefining Ad Integrity

July 2, 2018

Company brand logos are everywhere these days, and not just where they expect them to be. A business knows when it has placed an advertisement in a magazine, but it has no knowledge if an ad has been seen by more than the publication’s readers. This is no longer the case thanks to deep learning technology. Learn how deep learning tools are helping businesses identify if its brands and logos in photos posted to social media and how this is producing actionable information that can increase their market share.

Blockchain

How Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Are Transforming the Auto Industry

June 28, 2018

Take a look at how some auto giants intend to use cryptocurrency technology to drive innovation. It’s not in the payment model aspect you may be thinking but instead as a means for cars to communicate with each other whilst on the road.

AI

Robo-Accountants Are an Accountant’s Best Friend

June 20, 2018

Since the inception of the profession, accountants have been “numbers crunchers” and “bean counters”—mathematically inclined individuals tasked to laboriously assemble a company’s financial data and calculate revenue and expenses toward closing the books each quarter. Now so-called robo-accountants are doing the hard work, freeing accountants from crunching the numbers to make sense of them for operational and financial decision-making purposes.

Blockchain

How Blockchain Technology Is Upending These Five Industries

June 6, 2018

Blockchain has been referred to as the most important technological innovation since the internet. Delving beyond obvious use-cases (such as enabling cryptocurrency transactions and smart contracts), explore the unexpected and practical applications of blockchain in five major industries and see the impact it has on each one.