On Tuesday, UPS received the approval to operate a dorne airline, Flight Forward, giving them lead in the drone delivery business over leading competitors Amazon and Alphabet. While residential package deliveries are farther in the future, drone deliveries for institutions are on the fast track to becoming a reality. They released a statement saying that they will expand the delivery service to “campus” settings, such as large hospitals and universities. Scott Price, UPS’ chi

Singapore has designed a self-administered robot that allows people to perform the COVID-19 swab test on their own. The SwabBot is helping reduce healthcare workers’ risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Allowing the patient to administer their own test with help from the SwabBot reduces the need for trained nurses in the premises. It will also standarie the consistency of swabs taken. Unlike a nurse, the SwabBot won’t get tired after administering large amounts of tests and t

DeliRo Delivery giant Japan Post is partnering with one of Japan’s largest door-to-door delivery service companies, Yamato, to test unmanned delivery robots on the streets of Tokyo. The specific robot being tested was designed by local company ZMP, which specializes in manufacturing autonomous mobile vehicles. This robot has been named “DeliRo”, short for “delivery robot”. What are the features of DeliRo? DeliRo has pre-installed software that allows it to drive on its own, i

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Americans to work from home, with no end in sight. Start dates for when employees can return to the office are being pushed back later and later for many uncertain companies. Many companies have already announced their plans to keep employees at home for the long term. Google informed their workers that they can work from home until July 2021 and Twitter told its employees that many of them can work from home in perpetuity, even af

In the history of Facebook, there have been four website design changes. Now comes FB5, the newest layout, and perhaps the most dramatic change yet. The new design plans to place a larger emphasis on Groups and Events, two of the main reasons people log onto Facebook every day, as well as pulling focus away from the News Feed. These changes will update automatically to both the desktop website and the mobile app. Executives at Facebook hope that this update will not only make

A lot has changed in the past 2 months for many companies. The move towards remote working was slow before the coronavirus but now companies were forced to take measures of implementing it. More big tech companies in the Silicon Valley area are thinking giving employees the choice to continue their work at home. Today facebook joined Twitter in announcing that they will offer employees the option to work from home permanently. There have been studies that show the benefits of

The shelter in place order has been now extended to that of May 31st for most of silicon valley. Some business may return to normal working hours but will be required to wear masks and keep 6 feet apart. Some are wondering so what do we do now? Want to get out for some fresh air, you may need to head to southern California as some of their beaches have opened up. Thousands have already filled the sands but officials say to still keep apart from one another. Keep exercising in

I'm sure a lot of us are eager to know what really will happen when things start to go back to being what's was considered 'normal' before this all took place. The news states that they won't be letting everyone out all at once for fears of a huge serge of new patients with COVID-19. They will slowly let cities open up based on the numbers of infected people. When they start to slowly allow places to open up again, here are somethings that won't look or feel the same. Everyon

Now that you are stuck at home you might want to consider this as a unique opportunity to create a new business. Rack your brain for ideas to help your community rather then watching too much netflix or hulu. Entrepreneurship can be scary for some to even think about but it is a lifestyle I'm sure you always wanted. With money to spend, fancy cars to own and a title such as businesses owner, entrepreneurship can be flashy but it isn't all about that. Entrepreneurs strive to h

With the recent activities coming to a halt. Sports game cancelled, business and school closures, everyone will be actively staying at home. That means more time online which if you don't have a good enough router and internet speed, it can slow things down. Before looking at what router you have, first look at your internet package. If you are at a basic level and your starting to experience a lot of lag, you might want to invest in higher internet speeds. It might cost you

Due to the coronavirus, China has been in full force creating robotic technology to help stop the spread of the contagious virus. The virus has become a public health crisis that has pushed the country to quickly and effectively develop robots that can provide non human contact. Such robots that were created are delivery robots, that can carry supplies to medical staff. The robots range from a small scale to that of self driving larger ones. Here at RAVV we too are in develop

This year's HackACM was held at the University of California Santa Cruz on April 13, 2019. The event started at 9:30am and lasted to 11:30pm. What is HackACM? It is an educational event that encourages students to solve problems using coding. They have up to 12 hours to complete what they create to present to the judges. The turnout was impressive with about 100 students in attendance all divided into 15 teams. During the event Ravv's Fund Manager and judge of the competition

CMU and Ravv partnered to host a job fair for college students. The event took place at the Sheraton Sunnyvale hotel on March 20, 2019. The showroom was filled with eager students looking for opportunities to get a head start on their careers with multiple companies to chat with. DecorMatters, Magic Weaver and our very own Ravv were just a few of the potential business that these students could apply to one day be apart of. During the job fair companies gave presentations and

CES known as the consumer electronics show is held every year in Las Vegas. Companies large and small come to showcase their latest tech products. Ideas range from smart refrigerators, self serving robots to a futuristic flying helicopter. This year at CES 2019, RAVV along with partner's Berkeley Skydeck, CMU and MIT Angels held a booth for inspiring incubators. Before the start of the first day Ravv, founders and managers met over dinner to express their excitement of the da

With our smart phones becoming so advanced who needs to carry around a camera anymore. All you need to increase your phone's lens range is getting yourself a set of these lens attachments. It's called the Tack Zoom Len's Kit which comes with 3 choice of lenses and 2 clips. There is a wide angle, fisheye and a zoom lens. We tested each lens out and to our surprise they work nicely if you do some minor adjustments. For all the lenses you will need to digitally zoom in on your p