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Price Check on Aisle 3: Retailers Turn to Robots to Manage Inventory

Xconomy

Bossa Nova, along with San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, is among a group of tech companies that are using robotics and artificial intelligence. “If it isn’t on the shelf, the shopper can’t buy it,” Skaff adds. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Brain Corp.’s First Product is a Brain for Floor-Scrubbing Machines

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stands to gain valuable experience toward the development of autonomous, machine-learning systems and self-driving cars. Familiarity with the machinery is an advantage, Duffy said, because “These are the same kind of machines that [retailers] have been buying and using for years.”. While Brain Corp.

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Price Check on Aisle 3: Groceries Use AI, Devices to Battle Amazon

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If a shopper interacts with technology in a typical grocery store, it’s usually at the very end—as they are paying for their items. That could be about to change, though.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

A traveler pays Sun Country one fixed price to get them from the bus pick-up point to their final destination. Vianai raises $50M seed to transform machine learning. Founder and chief executive officer David Sunde tells TechCrunch a ride on Landline is booked through its partner airline Sun Country Airlines.

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

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Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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Bio Roundup: Trump’s Budget, Biogen’s AD Reveal, Hugin’s Run & More

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There was talk of tackling high drug prices in the budget document, but nothing to give Medicare direct negotiating power with drug companies or allow importation of cheaper drugs from other countries—ideas Trump has embraced on occasion.

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What’s Next for American Workers as Trade, Automation Roil Manufacturing?

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Bloomberg reported that the cuts were a response to lagging stock prices and CEO Mark Fields’s desire to trim company costs this. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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