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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. So Schneider put his shower head idea on hold.

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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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A couple decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots. So what if you take that philosophy out of the warehouse and into your living room ?

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GM sees connectivity, autonomy and transport-as-service fundamentally changing automotive industry

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These three factors, said Abelson in a panel talk at the 2016 SAE World Congress in Detroit, are changing how the vehicle interacts with the environment; how the user interacts with the vehicle; and the entire business structure around it. Automakers make most of their money by selling vehicles to individuals for personal transportation.

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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

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Our goal is to explore new ways to improve access to transportation and personalize the experience to each person's unique abilities. The research revealed that meeting the needs of a growing aging population will require new technologies, partnerships, ideas and business models.

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Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

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By helping people declutter and re-arrange personal items on walls and delivering them to users as needed or wanted while providing some ambient interactions, I'm hoping to use these robots to improve quality of life and enhance our home environments.

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Six mobility start-ups launching Volkswagen’s incubator program at Transparent Factory

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There they will be able to develop their ideas for the market with support from Volkswagen experts and financial support from the state capital, Dresden. If these are convincing, the start-ups will develop their ideas in Dresden until they are ready for the market. from Dresden. Nearly 50 mobility start‑ups applied.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans launches “Startup adVANce” competition for partners for future transport solutions

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Our goal isn’t to generate a vast number of creative ideas which, in a worst case scenario, are just going to end up in a drawer. We are looking for people and young companies that are able to work with us to transform innovative ideas quickly and successfully into initial working prototypes. Personal contacts will be established.

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