Concept: Zimbabwe-based Econet Wireless has unveiled an AI-powered chatbot named Yamurai to improve customer experience. The development of Yamurai as an additional customer support channel manifests Econet’s effort to optimize efficiencies and manage the rise in caller-based customer queries amidst the restricted movement during the COVID-19 lockdown. Nature of Disruption: Yamurai has been developed to …

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Concept: Swedish startup Quinyx’s developed a web-based system that offers scheduling and time reporting assistance for enterprises. The new software can change the way companies engage, forecast, manage and optimize their workforce by offering recently integrated advanced AI-driven market analysis, strategic planning and labor optimization solutions. Nature of Disruption: Quinyx addresses business issues like demand …

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says that some of the changes observable in the climate are irreversible. We examine how the UK Ministry of Defence tackles climate change.

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Concept: India’s Department of Environment and Forest has developed CarbonWatch which is the country’s first mobile application dedicated to help users in assessing their personal carbon footprint. It considers factors such as water use, electricity usage, waste separation and transportation to determine the level of a user’s daily carbon emissions. Nature of Disruption: CarbonWatch prompts …

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Concept: Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) has developed a new electrocatalyst technology to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide, a raw material for fuel and chemicals. The electrocatalyst has an installation area about the size of a small-sized envelope, operates at room temperature, and can process up to a ton of CO2 a year. Nature of …

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Concept: American cloud-based robot management startup InOrbit has added a ‘time capsule’ feature to its SaaS platform that offers engineering and operations staff advanced insights into their robot fleets. It helps them to capture information as to why robots are failing in certain locations and scenarios. Nature of Disruption: The InOrbit platform helps robot companies …

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Concept: India-based IT company Tech Mahindra entered into a strategic partnership with communication-collaboration platform Huddl.ai to launch global remote collaboration solutions for enterprises. The alliance targets to define ‘Future of Work’, allowing smoother alignments of teams with respect to efficiency. Nature of Disruption: By leveraging AI and ML, the solution enables hassle-free meeting experiences with …

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Concept: England-based company GTK has collaborated with UK-based technology company TouchNetix to launch a new Touchless User Interface (UI) solution. It can be used with any form of color display and OEMs can customize their UI to use a combination of different gestures that best fit their needs. Nature of Disruption: TouchNetix aXiom IC chip …

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Concept: American startup Kenzen has released a real-time worker heat monitoring system to predict and prevent illness and injury from heat, over-exertion, and fever. The cloud-based SaaS system involves a wearable PPE device that workers wear on their arms to alert themselves and their supervisors when the core body temperature approaches unsafe levels. Real-time alerts …

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Concept: US-based Base Operations leverages AI to accumulate and visualize threat data to aid companies keep their people and operations safe around the world. Nature of Disruption: Base Operations helps secure the people in the operation of an enterprise with Micro Intelligence. Micro Intelligence is street-level threat assessments providing a multitude of security tasks in …

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