Innovation & Startups

Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance. Aibo, with a hefty price tag at $2,900, announced its envoy to the States and immediately received press attention a niche product can hope for. Two opposite events occuring at

Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Guardian article, it was in in 2008, Novato, CA-based Buck Institute researcher Judith Campisi discovered secretion from senescent cells causes inflammation, the driver of almost every age-related diseases. This discovery shed light on scientists

[Update] This interview was conducted in August in 2018. On Nov. 1, 2018, we learned Tesla delivered first Powerpack project at tidal power station, which echos the theory in this interview. We will further investigate this topic with follow-on interviews. Earlier this year in June, Wales shelved a plan to

When it comes to the sensor technology for autonomous driving, there always seems two schools of thoughts: beliefs in Lidar/Radar OR beliefs in Vision. I asked two startup founders in autonomous-driving  to get their point of views: * Amit Steinberg, CTO and co-founder of Innoviz, a leading provider of LiDAR

On recent Uber’s driverless car kill, I asked two experts for comments: – Vivek Wadhwa: Author of Driver in the Driverless Car, a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Engineering at Silicon Valley (Menlo Park, CA) – Dr. Qufei Wang: Founder of EVSoft, building sharable driverless car (Guangzhou, China) Both Vivek

My interview on Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TED