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New Trends Innovation and Technology Blog

This blog serves to inspire and update campus on developments in various fields.

This is a project of the Nova Fellowship at TU. Send ideas and shareable articles to charles-wood@utulsa.edu.

Honda’s Shoulder-Riding Robot Pal Aims To Make The Walk To School Safer For Kids

Honda’s Ropot, “a traffic-safety advice robot that attaches to the straps of…

DeepMind’s Neural Network Helped Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery in Computational Biology

London-based AI lab, DeepMind, claims to have “solved” the problem of protein-folding…

GM gives ultimatum to Cadillac dealers who don’t want to sell electric cars

Cadillac dealers who are uninterested or unable to commit to GM’s shift…

Hilti Unveils BIM-enabled Construction Jobsite Robot

Construction sites are becoming increasingly more digitized. Hilti introduced, Jaibot, “a semi-autonomous…

The Evolution of Higher Education: 5 Global Trends To Watch

Salesforce.org and marketing research firm Ipsos present data from the Global Higher…

What do we care about most?

This report and visualization discusses the “56 values that drive all human…

Trend Hunter’s 2021 Trend Report

Trend Hunter’s list of the top 100 trends that will impact “tech,…

World’s 1st Fully Autonomous Fruit-Picking Drones Are Smarter Than Humans

Agriculture is not immune to the increased automation of the workforce. An…

These 6 Powerful Signals Reveal the Future Direction of Financial Markets

VisualCapitalist.com’s Jeff Desjardins lists 6 signals that identify the movement of financial…

Researchers create robots that can transform their wheels into legs

Researchers at Texas A&M University, in conjunction with with the Defense Advanced…

5 Big Picture Trends Being Accelerated by the Pandemic

Nick Routley of VisualCapitalist.com identified 5 trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic:…

The first AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English data

“Facebook’s new multilingual AI model directly translates between 100 languages without relying on…

Decisions, decisions: why we shouldn’t take this basic practice for granted

Annie Duke, author, speaker, and former poker player, discusses the importance of…

Augmented Reality Goggles for Military Working Dogs Could Transform Rescue Operations

“The U.S. Army is working on remote communication between handlers and their…

Massachusetts passes ‘right to repair’ law to open up car data

“Right to repair” advocates experienced a “win” in Massachusetts following the November…

Most of America’s “Most Promising” AI Startups Have Immigrant Founders

“Half of Silicon Valley’s startups have at least one foreign-born founder, and…

Pornographic “Deepfake Ecosystem” on Telegram Uncovered by Sensity

Deepfakes continue to pervade media outlets. A recent report from Sensity, a…

Wearable sensor helps ALS patients who can’t speak to communicate

MIT researchers created a wearable sensor for those with ALS which “can…

PayPal Users Will Now Be Able to Buy, Sell, and Exchange Cryptocurrencies On Its Platform

PayPal announced that users can now use cryptocurrencies “directly from their PayPal…

Samsonite’s Google-powered smart backpack has a touch-gesture strap

Smart fabric is an emerging trend in the marketplace. Google’s Jacquard tech…

Researchers develop versatile robotic fabric

“Researchers at Yale have developed a robotic fabric, a breakthrough that could…