Automation

The rise of the US interstate road system was initiated through the Eisenhower administration with the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Since then, the United States hasn’t seen a significant effort to invest in the US Infrastructure system.

This article was originally posted on the Forbes Technology Council. Click here to read the original article.‍ In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a highly publicized match against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer built to take down the world’s best players. Kasparov won the match 4-2, writing afterward about the inflexibility in the supercomputer's logic, joking that he thought he still had a “few years left.”

On a hot summer afternoon in 2003, an overloaded power line in Cleveland, Ohio drooped onto underlying foliage, tripping the high-voltage line and sending a power surge back through the system.

Smart machines are everywhere — in our homes, our driveways, even our power grids and assembly lines.

Some exciting news to share — we just closed an oversubscribed Series B funding round to bring AI-driven automation to the field service industry.