Given all of the attention it’s been getting recently, robotics may seem like a brand-new industry. But two of the firms on our list have been around for decades—and one is a conglomerate of companies that date back to the 19th century. But there’s no question that the industry, powered by breakthroughs in technology, has accelerated in recent years. The total global robotics market will excee
In 2024, drug makers delivered breakthrough treatments in conditions that had seen little progress for decades—and helped make existing therapies more accessible. Approved in July, Eli Lilly’s Kisunla is the first limited-duration treatment shown to slow the progression of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
In September, Bristol Myers Squibb got the agency’s greenlight for Cobenfy, the first major new drug for schizophrenia in 70 years. With the landmark approval of its epinephrine nasal spr
Advances in manufacturing (faster, cheaper, smarter) don’t always result from one big technological breakthrough: Much of the work of innovation involves building on what people have accomplished before.
By taking advantage of improvements in sensing hardware and software analytics capabilities, Blackline has built a better toolkit for detecting hazardous gases in industrial workplaces.
Thanks to AI, we’re in the midst of an unprecedented technology boom. The medical devices industry hasn’t been left out of it.
Among the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the medical device field, several have leveraged AI to make diagnosis and treatment easier. This includes an AI platform from Heartflow that creates a 3D diagram of the heart and allows clinicians to diagnosis coronary artery disease. Sprint Ray used AI to make it easier for dentists to print teeth on demand, reducing patie
Why Celonis, Yale Lift Technologies, Altana, and Fleetio are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in logistics for 2025.
Consumers typically aren’t concerned with how goods get from Point A to Point B, as long as they get there on time and intact. Last year proved that there’s plenty that can complicate the journey.
Geopolitics threaten to upend supply chains, from tariffs levied on America’s largest trade partners to an intensifying cold war with China that has U.S. compan
This year’s finance honorees are best known for pushing industry boundaries in their adoption of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other new technologies. But they also share a more old-fashioned characteristic: a relentless focus on their customers.
At the top of the list, Nubank solidified its domination of the Brazilian banking market over the past year by further investing in family-friendly product
In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom that’s reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether that’s as a product or service for customers or as an integral component of their organizations’ processes. This has raised the profile and pursuit of data science: After all, as Airbyte CEO and co-founder Michel Tricot succinctly put it, “no data, no AI.”
While smartphones are still the indisputable center of our digital lives, this year’s most innovative consumer electronics companies aim to improve life beyond the touchscreen.
A lot of that involves advancement in wearable computing. EssilorLuxottica, for instance, has come up with a winning formula for smart glasses in both the Meta Ray-Bans and its Nuance Audio hearing aids, which pack just enough technology to avoid looking uncool.
The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surge—and revenue soar—at companies supporting AI infrastructure. This year’s Most Innovative Companies in computing include TSMC; the Taiwan-based fabricator’s N3P chip offers the smallest, most densely packed transistor size yet, while the company Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology is integral to AI accelerator chips, including Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU. Lambda Labs’ new 1-C