Fast Food of the Future
Taco Bell is re-imagining their fast food outlets in response to customer demand shifting from sit-down dining to collect & drive-through orders. As reported by…
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The king of all rockets? The SpaceX super heavy booster
Not sure this qualifies as 4IR, but its just so cool I can’t help but post it here 😁. The vision. The scale. The pace…
6 autonomous delivery robots being trialed
Having driven some of our roads, and also having witnessed the recent scenes of large-scale looting and destruction, something tells me it might be a…
ThisPersonDoesNotExist
Okay, so this came out in 2019 so is positively ancient in Internet time; but if you’ve never seen it before, prepare to be amazed!…
World first: real-time translation of brainwaves to speech
Sciencealert is reporting on a new technological milestone achieved by US researchers that is enabling a paralyzed man who lost the ability to physically speak,…
Africa’s first 3D-printed homes and schools are going up in Malawi and Kenya
The World Economic Forum is reporting on an organisation called 14Trees that is 3D printing houses and schools first in Malawai and now in Kenya.…
Behind the scenes of Ocado’s 6-football-field sized, 2000 robot, automatic grocery packing facility
So much cool stuff going on this video. Robots obviously, but also think about coding the scheduling algorithms, managing all the data being produced, forecasting…
Steve Biko Academic Hospital adds telemedicine robot to their ICU
ITWeb reports on the new telemedicine robot called ‘Stevie’ that Steve Biko Academic Hospital have recently added to their Intensive Care Unit. The robot lets…
How game engine technology is revolutionizing the film industry with virtual backgrounds in Star Wars
The Unreal Gaming engine that modern day games such a Fortnite, Borderlands, Final Fantasy and thousands of others are created with is being used outside…