Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the Husky A200 research platform, the mobile robot uses new navigational software to carry out autonomous logistics tasks. Robots are already moving into our homes and soon they may be helping to […]

Service companies often waste significant amounts of time and resources managing appointments. Taking bookings is an essential business task. And although the time required to schedule a single appointment is minimal, over weeks and months employees can easily spend hours on the phone dealing with customers. Fortunately, there’s a better way. Virtually all businesses can benefit from modern apps and […]

If you’re attending any weddings in 2020, prepare to see eco-friendly touches everywhere from the fashion to the food to the favors. Etsy just released its top seven predictions for the biggest wedding trends of 2020, based on search data and insight from experts — and at the heart of the list was sustainability. And in November, The Knot released […]

Back in the day, there was one way to get groceries: you had to go to the grocery store. But in 2020, there are a multitude of ways to stock your fridge without even leaving the couch. If you’re concerned about your environmental impact, you may already make an effort to reduce the amount of plastic and animal products in […]

Convenience stores that rely on technology instead of cashiers to keep things ticking over might sound like a futuristic notion, but there are a number of such concepts being tested around the world. 7-Eleven is the latest to enter the fray, today announcing a trial of a new store in Texas that will be unstaffed with customers left to their […]

There is a lot of information going around that, in the next decade, robots and not humans will be carrying out major tasks. However, the truth is that it is more likely that some jobs will grow at a much faster rate than others and will offer even more attractive pay to workers by 2030. Let’s take a look at […]

Have you grown sick and tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to make more money and save more money? What better time to brainstorm clever ways to make those goals a reality than right now? As 2019 comes to a bittersweet end, it’s time to look toward 2020 and all of the potential […]

The manufacturing industry doesn’t exactly have a reputation for their sustainable efforts. Luckily, a modern push for environmentally friendly alternatives to wasteful or harmful practices has begun to change this. Keep reading to learn four ways that manufacturing is going green. 1. Ditching Old-Fashioned Factories When you think of sustainability, the last thing you might think of is oversized, loud, […]

Brands that don’t embrace the circular economy will go out of business, according to Dutch designer Richard Hutten. Speaking at the Warsaw Home fair in Poland last week, Hutten said that consumers are demanding sustainable products. Companies that don’t respond will fail, he said. “If you don’t have a circular business, you won’t have a business,” he said. “If companies […]

The new decade is nearly knocking on our door — what does business have in store for startup owners and aspiring entrepreneurs? We’ve watched markets rise and fall over the past 20 years and investors who got burned by the volatility know how important it is to financially forecast the years to come. Here’s a look at four industries that […]