Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.96
…eventually Mars with NASA. “We're treating this like the Apollo program for the future of the way we build and the future of the way we meet one of our most basic needs,” said Ballard. “We're going to accelerate the growth of an elite and diverse team of scientists, engineers, architects, operators, and leaders that is now over 100 and growing. We anticipate more rapid progress in the years ahead to help bring housing and construction into the modern world and in-line with humanity's highest hopes and values.” ICON investment now totals $266M In 2018, ICON raised $9 million in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.13
…For instance, Wang Laboratories offered word processing, Computervision and Apollo offered CAD systems, and ATEX offered publishing systems. Sun Microsystems offered enterprise workstations, Oracle offered database systems, and many other players addressed specific markets with similar underlying hardware. However, each focused on the requisite functionality that enabled the native software to optimize and exploit the computer strengths for the intended application. There were common elements, of course, but within each application, superfluous functions were shed or minimized. These were solutions, not computers! Stipulating that transformative information technologies may differ somewhat than physical world technologies, the paradigm holds if we view…