Coca-Cola European Partners has announced it will use Einride’s autonomous, electric transport system to expand in its Swedish distribution network. A commercial pilot will be launched at its facility outside Stockholm. The partnership will run over the next few years and will explore opportunities to improve sustainability and efficiency in the transport system.Road freight transport is responsible for around 7% of global CO2-emissions and has only gone through incremental changes in the last few decades. https://www.autofutures.tv/2019/12/06/einride-coca-cola/
Computers and robots can act as doctors. This idea was seen in the movie Baymax which gives us a look at what healthcare may look like in the future – we will get care of all kinds from robots, not just humans. The robot in the film looks like a marshmallow man and is designed to be non-threatening and huggable,
The Bloom Library provides an easy-to-use digital publishing platform that a local language community can quickly learn and generate books from to be used in classrooms and literacy groups. The tool solves a key problem that many communities face: They want to advocate for literacy in their local language but don't have enough books to help their community members practice what they are learning. Currently the platform has 5000 books in over 200 languages. It supports PDF, ePub, audio books and video. The platform facilitates Sign Language diglots, picture dictionaries, leveled/decodable readers and complex non-roman scripts. Visit www.bloomlibrary.org
India and Pakistan have a history of conflict. Despite this tense relationship every evening at sundown they perform a perfectly coordinated ceremony at the border near Amritsar. Soldiers from both sides do an impressive march and bring down their flags together to the delight of large local audiences and some tourists. They kick their legs up to their heads as they march!
