Tag: nations
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Nauticus Robotics presents at United Nations’ sustainability event
Nauticus Robotics, a developer of ocean robots, autonomy software, and services to the marine industries, today announced that founder and CEO Nicolaus Radford was scheduled to be speaking at an event on December 1, 2022, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The UN event is called “Energy Transition Industries: Solutions to Achieving…
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Oil-producing nations struggling with economic woes as society shifts towards electric movement
Oil-producing nations located in the Middle East and North Africa are struggling with their economies, most of which are not diversified enough to offset the losses caused by falls in the price of crude. A quick check shows that the current price of a barrel of crude oil – which is about 160 litres –…
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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots sends peace envoy robot to United Nations
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots – an actual political and social group run mostly by humans – has sent a peace envoy robot to deliver a letter to the United Nations building in New York, in the US. According to the Guardian newspaper, the campaign group will give UN diplomats a letter in which…
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Samsung moves into the vertical farming market
Agricultural innovations are essential for feeding our ever-growing global population. Especially these days, as industrialisation and global warming continue to negatively affect soil fertility and reduce the amount of arable land. According to the United Nations, the world’s population is set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050.
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US will regain top spot from China in manufacturing by 2020, says report
The United States will regain its lead as the world’s most competitive manufacturing nation by the year 2020, according to a report by economic analyst Deloitte. Deloitte made its forecast after surveying the opinions of manufacturing industry executives for its 2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index. Deloitte says “executives expect the US to assume the top position before the end…
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UN technology boss proclaims the end of human innovation
United Nations Chief Technology Officer Atefeh Riazi says the end is nigh for human innovation. In an interview with TechRepublic, Riazi says all future innovations will be made by computers. “The next innovations will come through artificial intelligence,” says Riazi. “It will be the AI innovating. “We need to think about our role as technologists and…