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Amazon is launching a new larger ‘Amazon Go Grocery’ store format today spanning nearly five times the floorspace of its cashierless convenience stores.

Amazon files patent for “touchless scanning system” allowing people to pay with hands

January 3, 2020

Amazon is understood to be working on biometric touchless scanning technology which would allow Amazon Go customers to pay with their hand. The online retail giant has filed a patent…

Retail drone deliveries are facing a major setback in the US as key legislation enabling companies to deliver parcels is opposed by powerful groups.

Walmart plans to catch drone deliveries in nets according to new patents

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Amazon drone delivery Google Patent Walmart

October 8, 2019

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Walmart filed two separate drone delivery patents last week as it seeks to push ahead of both Amazon and Google’s current drone programmes. The patents look specifically at how to…

Walmart will use blockchain tech to let delivery drones communicate

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Blockchain Delivery drones Patent Walmart

August 15, 2019

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Walmart is planning to use blockchain technology to allow delivery drones to communicate, according to a new patent. Delivery drones will use blockchain technology to transmit information like their speed,…

Amazon, Walmart, Target and Ikea sued by the University of California in landmark patent case

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Amazon Edison filament LED bulb Ikea LED Nixon Peabody Patent Shuji Nakamura Target University of California Walmart

July 31, 2019

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Amazon, Walmart, Ikea, Target and Bed Bath & Beyond are all being sued by the University of California for allegedly infringing its patents. The university is seeking unspecified damages and…

Apple scraps wireless charging device AirPower

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AirPods AirPower Apple Dan Riccio iPhone X

April 1, 2019

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Apple has cancelled plans to launch its wireless charging mat AirPower stating that it could not meet the company’s “high standards”. The tech giant announced the device alongside the iPhone…

Google could be next to offer a folding phone

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Folding Phone Google Patent Pixel

March 15, 2019

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Google could be the latest tech giant to jump on the folding phone bandwagon, after it filed a patent for a “computing device” which can be folded multiple times without…

Samsung patents wirelessly-powered TV

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Charging Mobile Patent Samsung Wireless

March 7, 2019

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Samsung has filed a patent suggesting it is working on an entirely wireless TV, utilising a wireless power transceiver to operate without any cables. As reported by LetsGoDigital, Samsung filed…

Big Interview: Bossa Nova Robotics managing director Red McKay

02/06/2020 11:05 AM

Automated grocery technology went from luxury to necessity almost overnight during the pandemic, we spoke to Bossa Nova to find out how the industry could change for good.

Since the term “robot” was first coined by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1921, the idea of an autonomous, mechanical entity handling the most laborious roles of the working world…

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Amazon files patent for “touchless scanning system” allowing people to pay with hands

Walmart plans to catch drone deliveries in nets according to new patents

Walmart will use blockchain tech to let delivery drones communicate

Amazon, Walmart, Target and Ikea sued by the University of California in landmark patent case

Apple scraps wireless charging device AirPower

Google could be next to offer a folding phone

Samsung patents wirelessly-powered TV

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