Amazon Go: The Future of Retail?
In 2018, Amazon launched Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar store powered by machine learning – with no checkout lines or cashiers. Is this the store of the future?
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How Alibaba leverage machine learning to disrupt retail and create pathway to reimagine online-to-offline shopping experiences
Alibaba has leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to disrupt China Retail Industry for the past 19 years. Nevertheless, 81% of retail consumption in China still comes from the offline channel [1]. Realizing the importance of offline presence, the giant online e-commerce shifts its gear towards Omnichannel strategy. In 2017, Alibaba opened futuristic groceries stores, Hema, offering 30-minute deliveries and facial-recognition payment. In the same year, T-mall pop-up stores are introduced in collaboration with over 100 domestic and international brands, promoting inventive "Retailtainment” shopping experiences [2]. While offline stores around the world are suffering, the giant e-commerce leveraged AI and made a brave move to enter the physical world in an innovative means. Or this will be another significant retail disruption, reinventing offline shopping experiences…
The democratization of energy: How machine learning is empowering both the consumer and the utility
The advent of technological advancements in the power industry is fundamentally changing how we produce and consume electricity, improving grid management as well enabling the creation of new business models: Enel Green Power ('Enel') is at the forefront of this transition, and redefining what it means to be a utility company.
When Chanel trades sewing machines for 3D printers
Can you imagine a future where you could download a suit design from your favorite brand and immediately print in at home?
Economies of One – The 3D Printing Company Rewriting Economic Law
For additive manufacturing companies focused on low-volume and high-complexity, Protolabs is leading the way. Protolabs is the world’s fastest manufacturer of custom prototypes and on-demand production parts. Through technological innovation and customer service, the company is attempting to rewrite economic law by succeeding with an operating model dubbed the economies of one.
Bringing machine learning to music – Spotify’s vision to win the hearts and ears of humanity
Is Spotify singing to us what we want to hear?
Boeing: Additive Manufacturing Adding Enough?
Boeing is a leader in implementing 3d printing processes on commercial airliners. But are they leveraging the benefits of 3d printing enough to reduce costs and manufacture more efficiently?
Vertiv Not Raging Against The Machine
How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is revolutionizing data centers
Underwriters or data scientists: who will help Brian Duperreault make AIG great again?
Brian Duperreault is focused on refreshing AIG's underwriting talent to execute a turnaround, but should he turn his attention to data science and machine learning instead?
San José Tackles Open Innovation for Smart Cities
How Silicon Valley's Capital is Co-Creating The Smart City of Tomorrow