If you're thinking about installing robots in your warehouse, you're not alone.

Direct-to-consumer deliveries are the way of the future, and becoming even more important due to COVID-19. However, logistics companies are struggling to meet demand amid a barrage of factors, from ever-changing road conditions to managing temperature-sensitive deliveries of medications. A powerful new streaming data software technique, called real-time digital twins, can provide the insights needed to answer critical logistics questions, reduce unknown variables, and improve the efficiency of operations.

In the first wave of the pandemic, employees in the manufacturing industry were among the hardest hit. Many manufacturers across the country saw huge clusters break out at plants and factories – including one incident at Tyson where 95% of tests came back positive – which rightfully caused worry and concern among both workers and the public.

Automation. The word itself recalls images of a time ahead: of flying cars, of Jetsons, of robots designed to serve, and generally futuristic living. Though flying cars have yet to grace the skies, the futuristic living we seek has already arrived.

Google’s artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome.

The market research institute Gartner expects significant changes in supply chain management within five years. Eight trends are already emerging.

Most supply chain management models have been built to respond to data - what happened in the past. But in today’s dynamic environment a more predictive approach is needed, one that gives supply chains the ability to sense and respond to business changes as they happen. Advanced supply chain analytics survey in order to introduce a proactive management model, equipping supply chain professionals with the ability to continually sense and respond as business changes around them.

People create their own digital twin - Gartner makes these and other predictions in his Hype Cycle 2020. Read about the technologies that will change society and the economy.

The digital company in five steps: Which stages and processes will be gone through and what this means for your own digitalization strategy.

Scientists calculate that the top 200 meters of ocean alone contains up to 21 million metric tons of plastic. And that wasn't even counting microfibers