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Gemini 2.5 is our most intelligent AI model, now with thinking built in.

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.

Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.

As President Trump's second term unfolds, the manufacturing landscape in the United States is poised for a significant transformation. The administration's renewed focus on reshoring manufacturing operations presents both opportunities and challenges for industry leaders.

We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear cause but lead to congestion and significant energy waste. To train efficient flow-smoothing controllers, we built fast, data-driven simulations that RL agents interact with, learning to maximize energy efficiency while maintaining throughput and operating safely around human drivers.

Overall, a small proportion of well-controlled autonomous vehicles (AVs) is enough to significantly improve traffic flow and fuel efficiency for all drivers on the road. Moreover, the trained controllers are designed to be deployable on most modern vehicles, operating in a decentralized manner and relying on standard radar sensors. In our latest paper, we explore the challenges of deploying RL controllers on a large-scale, from simulation to the field, during this 100-car experiment.

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How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer is more complicated than you might think. New research from Northeastern University upends the riddle by making a robot that is both flexible and sensitive enough to handle the lightbulb, and strong enough to apply the necessary torque.

A joint research team has successfully developed a next-generation soft robot based on liquid. The research was published in Science Advances.

NGen, Festo Didactic and Humber Polytechnic, a leading Canadian post-secondary institution known for its career-focused, hands-on approach to education, are partnering to demonstrate the strength of Canadian mechatronics skills at Hannover Messe.

New Study Finds AI Popular Among Less-Educated

New research from Stanford University reveals that ChatGPT and similar AI writers are surprisingly popular among those with less formal education.

Essentially, researchers found that regions in the U.S. featuring more tradespeople, artisans, craftsmen and similar are using AI writing more than people living in areas where college degrees are more prevalent.

The telling stats: 19.9% of people living in ‘less educated’ areas of the U.S. have adopted AI writing tools like ChatGPT – as compared to 17.4% in regions with higher education profiles.

Even more dramatic: Adoption in the state of Arkansas, where college degrees are less prevalent: A full 30% of people in Arkansas are using ChatGPT and similar AI to auto-write letters to businesses and government organizations.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Microsoft’s ChatGPT Competitor – Copilot – Gets an Upgrade: Microsoft has rolled-out a new version of its AI writer/chatbot Copilot, which it says is now more deeply embedded into its Windows software.

In part, the change was made in response to user complaints over previous versions of Copilot, which they say operated more like a ‘wrapper’ or outside app that ‘felt’ only weakly linked to Windows software.

With the upgrade, Microsoft is promising users will see marked performance gains from Copilot.

*ChatGPT Competitor Claude: Great for Auto-Writing Pre-Meeting Reports: Mike Krieger, chief product officer, Anthropic is pushing a new use case for the company’s ChatGPT-competitor, Claude.

Essentially, the AI tech can be used to scan calendars and company data to auto-write detailed client reports before a meeting, according to Krieger.

Observes writer Muslim Farooque: “With this move, Anthropic is taking on big players like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google — all racing to dominate AI-powered business tools.

*One Writer’s Take: Google Has the Best AI Writing Editor: Count writer Amanda Caswell is among those who strongly prefer Google’s new editor for AI writing – Canvas – over ChatGPT’s online editor that carries the same name.

Observes Caswell: “Gemini Canvas is far more thorough and detailed in its critique than ChatGPT Canvas. It’s essentially a real editor. ChatGPT made me feel like my mom was editing the story and was sparing my feelings.

“In a word: Wow.”

*College Rolling-out New Certificate in AI Writing: Beginning Fall 2025, students at Boise State College can obtain a certificate in AI writing after completing three courses on the discipline.

Those are:

~Writing For/With AI

~Applications of AI (with a strong focus on content production)

~Style and the Future of AI Writing

*AI Tech Titans Want to Use Copyrighted Writing for Free: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – and Google – are looking for clearance from the U.S. government to train their AI on newspaper, magazine and other copyrighted text on the Web for free.

The reason: Given China’s recent major gains in tightening-up the AI race, U.S. AI purveyors need every advantage to stay ahead of China.

Currently, many content creators – including The New York Times – are suing OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT without permission.

*On the Research Bench: Text-To-Data-Driven Slides: Adobe is currently experimenting with new AI tech that promises to convert data-heavy research into vibrant slide presentations in Powerpoint.

Dubbed ‘Project Slide Wow,’ the experimental tech is aimed at marketers and business analysts looking to quickly build data-backed presentations without being forced to manually structure content or design slides.

Observes Jane Hoffswell, research scientist, Adobe: “It’s analyzing all the charts in this project, generating captions for them, organizing them into a narrative and creating the presentation slides.”

Currently, Adobe has no firm release date for the experimental slide-maker.

*ChatGPT-Maker’s AI Agents: The Complete Rundown: Writer Siddhese Bawker offers an excellent overview in this piece on the tiers of AI agents currently available from OpenAI.

Such agents are able to work independently on a task for you, which might include clicking-and-pointing with your browser to research, analyze and then auto-write on what it found.

Even better: Extremely advanced AI agents are able to perform such tasks with PhD-level intelligence.

OpenAI’s entry-level agent is included in a ChatGPT Pro subscription ($200/month.)

Higher level agents are OpenAI’s Knowledge Worker Agent ($200/month), Developer Agent ($10,000/month) and Research Agent ($20,000/month).

*ChatGPT Wants to be the Interface for Your Data: Businesses hoping to integrate their databases with ChatGPT — so they can use the AI to analyze and auto-write reports about that data and more — may not have to wait long.

Writer Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is currently testing in-house developed ‘connectors’ that will ideally make such fusions possible.

So far, development of connectors to Google Drive and Slack is already underway.

Observes Wiggers: “ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets and Slack conversations.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: New Hyper-Realistic Voice AI Goes Viral: A new AI voice sensation – Sesame AI – appears ready to dethrone Eleven Labs as the industry standard in realistic voice AI.

Essentially, the Web has blown-up with praise for Sesame AI, which apparently generates AI voices that are so real and human, their sheer intimacy disturbs some people.

Even so: AI Uncovered – producer of this 11-minute video – does note that Eleven Labs still beats Sesame AI when it comes to auto-generating spoken word from a script.

Share a Link:  Please consider sharing a link to https://RobotWritersAI.com from your blog, social media post, publication or emails. More links leading to RobotWritersAI.com helps everyone interested in AI-generated writing.

–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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More than 11 years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Malaysian government has approved a new search for the missing debris of the aircraft.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have come a long way since their early days of mimicking autocomplete on steroids. But generating fluent text isn’t enough – true intelligence demands reasoning. That means solving math problems, debugging code, drawing logical conclusions, and even reflecting on errors. Yet modern LLMs are trained to predict the next word, not to think. So how are they suddenly getting better at reasoning?

The answer lies in a constellation of new techniques – from prompt engineering to agentic tool use – that nudge, coach, or transform LLMs into more methodical thinkers. Here’s a look at five of the most influential strategies pushing reasoning LLMs into new territory.

1. Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Teaching LLMs to “Think Step by Step”

One of the earliest and most enduring techniques to improve reasoning in LLMs is surprisingly simple: ask the model to explain itself.

Known as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, this method involves guiding the model to produce intermediate reasoning steps before giving a final answer. For instance, instead of asking “What’s 17 times 24?”, you prompt the model with “Let’s think step by step,” leading it to break down the problem: 17 × 24 = (20 × 17) + (4 × 17), and so on.

This idea, first formalized in 2022, remains foundational. OpenAI’s o1 model was trained to “think longer before answering” – essentially internalizing CoT-like reasoning chains. Its successor, o3, takes this further with simulated reasoning, pausing mid-inference to reflect and refine responses.

The principle is simple: by forcing intermediate steps, models avoid jumping to conclusions and better handle multi-step logic.

2. Inference-Time Compute Scaling: More Thinking per Question

If a question is hard, spend more time thinking – humans do this, and now LLMs can too.

Inference-time compute scaling boosts reasoning by allocating more compute during generation. Instead of a single output pass, models might generate multiple reasoning paths, then vote on the best one. This “self-consistency” method has become standard across reasoning benchmarks.

OpenAI’s o3-mini uses three reasoning effort options (low, medium, high) that determine how long the model reasons internally before answering. At high reasoning levels, o3-mini outperforms even the full o1 model on math and coding tasks.

A related technique, budget forcing, introduced in the 2025 paper s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling, uses special tokens to control reasoning depth. By appending repeated “Wait” tokens, the model is nudged to generate longer responses, self-verify, and correct itself. An end-of-thinking token like “Final Answer:” signals when to stop. This method improves accuracy by extending inference without modifying model weights – a modern upgrade to classic “think step by step” prompting.

The tradeoff is latency for accuracy, and for tough tasks, it’s often worth it.

3. Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Stage Training: Rewarding Good Reasoning

Another game-changer: don’t just predict words – reward correct logic.

Models like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek-R1 are trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to encourage sound reasoning patterns. Instead of just imitating data, these models get rewards for producing logical multi-step answers. DeepSeek-R1’s first iteration, R1-Zero, used only RL – no supervised fine-tuning – and developed surprisingly powerful reasoning behaviors.

However, RL-only training led to issues like language instability. The final DeepSeek-R1 used multi-stage training: RL for reasoning and supervised fine-tuning for better readability. Similarly, Alibaba’s QwQ-32B combined a strong base model with continuous RL scaling to achieve elite performance in math and code.

The result? Models that not only get answers right, but do so for the right reasons – and can even learn to self-correct.

4. Self-Correction and Backtracking: Reasoning, Then Rewinding

What happens when the model makes a mistake? Can it catch itself?

Until recently, LLMs struggled with self-correction. In 2023, researchers found that simply asking a model to “try again” rarely improved the answer – and sometimes made it worse. But new work in 2025 introduces backtracking – a classic AI strategy now adapted to LLMs.

Wang et al. from Tencent AI Lab identified an “underthinking” issue in o1-style models: they jump between ideas instead of sticking with a line of reasoning. Their decoding strategy penalized thought-switching, encouraging deeper exploration of each idea.

Meanwhile, Yang et al. proposed self-backtracking – letting the model rewind when stuck, then explore alternate paths. This led to >40% accuracy improvements compared to approaches that solely relies on the optimal reasoning solutions.

These innovations effectively add search and planning capabilities at inference time, echoing classical AI methods like depth-first search, layered atop the flexible power of LLMs.

5. Tool Use and External Knowledge Integration: Reasoning Beyond the Model

Sometimes, reasoning means knowing when to ask for help.

Modern LLMs increasingly invoke external tools – calculators, code interpreters, APIs, even web search – to handle complex queries. 

Alibaba’s QwQ-32B incorporates agent capabilities directly, letting it call functions or access APIs during inference. Google’s Gemini 2.0 (Flash Thinking) supports similar features – for example, it can enable code execution during inference, allowing the model to run and evaluate code as part of its reasoning process.

Why does this matter? Some tasks – like verifying real-time data, performing symbolic math, or executing code – are beyond the model’s internal capabilities. Offloading these subtasks lets the LLM focus on higher-order logic, dramatically improving accuracy and reliability.

In essence, tools let LLMs punch above their weight – like a digital Swiss Army knife, extending reasoning with precision instruments.

Conclusion: Reasoning Is a Stack, Not a Switch

LLMs don’t just “learn to reason” in one step – they acquire it through a layered set of techniques that span training, prompting, inference, and interaction with the world. CoT prompting adds structure. Inference-time scaling adds depth. RL adds alignment. Backtracking adds self-awareness. Tool use adds reach.

Top-performing models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3, DeepSeek’s R1, Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, and Alibaba’s QwQ combine several of these strategies – a hybrid playbook blending clever engineering with cognitive scaffolding.

As the field evolves, expect even tighter coupling between internal reasoning processes and external decision-making tools. We’re inching closer to LLMs that don’t just guess the next word – but genuinely think.

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Claire chatted to Josie Gotz from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about robotics for material recovery, reuse and recycling.

Josie Gotz is a Senior Research Engineer in the Intelligent Robotics Team at the Manufacturing Technology Centre. She works as the technical lead on a variety of robotics and automation projects from research and development through to integration across a wide variety of manufacturing sectors. She specialises in creating innovative solutions for these industries, combining vision systems and artificial intelligence to build flexible automation systems. Josie has a particular interest in automated disassembly for material recovery, reuse and recycling.

How to Develop an AI-Powered Recruitment Platform?

Over the past few years, there has been a rapid transformation in the recruitment landscape due to growing expectations for accuracy and diversity in hiring processes. Traditional recruiting methods are sluggish to handle the intricate hiring needs of modern businesses. Thus, companies are using artificial intelligence technology-powered tools to streamline the employment process and bring innovation to the process.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help organizations hire the right candidates more quickly and precisely by automating the process from resume screening to profile matching. But creating an AI-driven hiring platform is not that easy. It needs a deep understanding of both conventional recruiting models and AI potentialities in the recruiting landscape.

This article will guide you through the fundamental processes of developing an AI-powered hiring platform. We will also share insights and strategies for success in handling recruiting challenges with AI applications.

Core Features of an AI-Powered Recruitment Platform

Developing an AI-powered recruitment platform requires understanding key features that would make it truly effective and exceptional. Such features should be designed in a manner to automate, smoothen, and upgrade various recruitment processes at work, through which one can assure better hiring decisions that result in enhanced workforce efficiency.

• Automated Resume Screening:

One of the trickiest and most time-consuming processes of hiring is reviewing hundreds of resumes to shortlist a quality one. By independently scanning and sorting resumes based on predefined criteria like education, talents, and experience, AI can significantly reduce the workload.

Only the top candidates advance to the next round of the hiring process because these algorithms may be trained to recognize patterns in successful candidates and apply them to the evaluation of new candidates.

• Profile Matching and Shortlisting:

Another important factor of AI-powered recruitment platforms is their ability to match candidate profiles with job descriptions. Candidate profiles and job descriptions can be assessed using machine learning techniques in AI to find the right fit.

These algorithms make use of background cultural fit, growth potential, and even predictive performance data, not just simple keyword matching. This enables the individuals recommended to the customer by this platform not only to be qualified for the job but also to have every possibility of succeeding in their position.

• Virtual Assistant and Chatbot Support:

AI-driven chatbots can improve the applicant experience by interacting with applicants around the clock, responding to their inquiries, keeping them informed about the progress of their applicants, and even doing the initial screening interviews. So, the chatbot improves overall engagement and communication between the recruiter and the candidate.

• Predictive Analysis:

Predictive analysis helps with data-driven decision-making capabilities. Artificial intelligence can evaluate candidate profiles, hiring history, and other relevant data to determine a candidate’s likelihood of success in a given role. Predictive analysis helps recruiters make better decisions that increase the success rate and return on investment.

• Bias Mitigation:

AI-driven platforms mitigate the risk of unconscious bias when bringing objectivity into the evaluation process. Moreover, AI algorithms can be constantly checked and readjusted to make sure that they remain bias-free, thereby achieving further fairness in the recruitment process.

Step-by-Step Procedure to Develop an AI-Powered Recruitment Platform

Step 1: Research and Analysis of the Market

Detailed market research is required before the development phase. This includes understanding the current recruitment technology, finding any gaps in the current solutions, and assessing the demands of your target market. Talk to potential users, HR specialists, and recruiters to learn more about the functionalities and features they need.

Step 2: Define the Core Features

The next step is to establish the essential features and functionalities of your platform, depending on your market research. They include the core AI-driven features previously covered, such as chatbots, candidate-matching algorithms, automated resume screening, predictive analytics, etc. Include unique features that would give your recruitment platform a competitive edge. Also, map out a well-defined user experience journey for both recruiters and candidates to make the platform user-friendly.

Step 3: Selecting the Right AI Technology

Selecting the right technology is an essential part of the mobile app development process. Depending on your requirements, you can choose AI and machine learning tools and frameworks, including NLP libraries and data analytic tools. Besides, consider the demands of data storage and processing to make sure that the chosen technology stack will be able to safely and effectively process large volumes of data. This analysis makes your Android app development and iOS app development successful.

Step 4: Design and Development

Recruiting app design is a stage at which you do detailed wireframing and prototype the UI to ensure it provides an effortless experience from both the recruiter and candidate sides. At this phase of mobile application development, your team will start coding the front-end and back-end features using agile methods of development. An expert mobile app development team with AI developers and UX/UI designers can help ensure all areas of the AI recruiting platform for Android and iOS are fully covered.

Step 5: Unified Integrations

The integration of external supporting tools and applications into the AI hiring platform is complex and requires some proper strategizing on your part. First of all, use relevant datasets that may be resumes, job descriptions, or historical data on hiring to train AI and machine learning models. After training, these models need to be integrated with the core functionalities of the platform, such as resume screening and candidate matching.

Step 6: Thorough Testing

As a part of the development process, testing makes sure your platform is dependable and highly functional. The performance, security requirements, accuracy, and dependability of AI algorithms should all be tested to ensure the quality of your AI-powered recruiting application.

Step 7: Mobile App Deployment

Deploy with a minimal amount of downtime since this will be critical to a smooth transition for users. This phase may yield valuable benefits if rolled out by first presenting your beta version to a small number of users for feedback prior to release. This allows you to make any necessary adjustments based on real-world usage.

Step 8: Post-Launch Support

Monitor how your AI recruiting platform works, such as user interactions, the accuracy of AI functionalities, and satisfaction scores. Use this data to make continuous improvements by refining AI algorithms, adding new features, or improving UI. Not only will it keep your platform competitive, but with regular updates and improvements, it’s going to ensure that it remains competitive for the evolving demands of both recruiters and candidates.

How Much Does It Cost to Develop an AI-Powered Recruitment Platform?

The cost associated with developing an AI-powered recruitment platform varies depending on many factors. Hiring an expert AI development team and investing in an advanced technology stack are the major costs. Further, costs are impacted by data processing, acquisition, and storage, especially when huge datasets are needed to train AI models.

The average cost of AI recruiting platform development falls between $80,000 and $100,000, while a more sophisticated platform might cost between $150,000 and $250,000. Although there are significant upfront expenses associated with AI development, the long-term advantages of increased hiring effectiveness and better candidate matching can justify your AI investments.

Conclusion

Creating an AI-powered recruitment platform is a challenging but worthwhile project that can greatly improve the efficiency of hiring procedures. AI platforms have the potential to revolutionize recruitment processes by automating candidate matching, resume screening, and predictive analysis-like tasks.

However, careful planning is required for the development process, from conducting market research to choosing the best AI technology. Even if the initial costs seem to be high, the long-term advantages make AI development worth it.

If you are looking to integrate AI into your recruitment process or develop an AI-powered hiring application from scratch, USM Business Systems is the right AI development company to meet your AI software development needs.

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Complete Guide to Location Based App Development

How Much Does It Cost to Develop Location-based or Location Tracking Mobile Apps?

How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Location Tracking Mobile Apps?

In the wake of emerging privacy dreads worldwide, the integration of location-based services in mobile apps is necessary. Businesses around the globe are already on their way to add location-based functionalities into their existing mobile apps for providing more security and qualitative digital services to their audience.

Dedicated location tracking mobile apps allow users to locate their places, find unfamiliar destination areas, track vehicles, and many more. These are the best advantages of mobile apps that are featured with location-based services.

The best example of a location-based app is Uber, an online cab booking application for android and iOS. These applications allow users to share their location to family or other for security purpose. Geolocation-based mobile apps development help businesses ensure the security of users in needed times. Besides, food delivery, medicine delivery mobile apps are also enabled with location-tracking features.

To help enterprises better understand the advantages and opportunities of GPS apps development, we have articulated a list of the best location-based apps and their use cases across industries.

Definition of Geolocation Tracking Mobile Apps

The term Geolocation tracking refers to tracing geographical information of users’ devices. Be it an android device, iOS smartphone, or any other trackers with GPS chip, GPS devices or applications tracks are helpful as location navigators and tracks precise geographic data.

Must-have Features Of Location-based Mobile Apps

The features and functionalities of the app will decide the success of a mobile application. If you would like to invest in location-based mobile apps development, you should not ignore the below three significant features.

• Eye appealing User Interface or User Experience design
• Integration of in-app Google Maps
• Flexibility to find and share current location
• Display distance and time between the source and destination places
• Location-based mobile app should show the shortest route to users
• Pointing precise location of the users’ device
• Voice guidance to reach the destination
• Location-based push notifications, etc.

These are must-have features of location-based apps.

Benefits Of Location-based Apps Development For Businesses

95% of global organizations are implementing location-based services in apps to reach more targeted customers. In particular, 90% of enterprises across the USA have enabled location-tracking services in their mobile apps.

The companies are focusing on integrating GPS services in Weather reporting apps, Social media apps, Travel booking apps, Photo or video editing or streaming apps, and many more. These are a few leading app categories for which businesses have enabled location-based services in the country.

We have picked up a few advantages of location-based apps development for businesses. If you are in dilemma to analyze the significance of GPS applications development, here are the reasons why companies around the world are integrating GPS functionality in trending mobile apps like Uber.

• Location aware apps in the transport industry allows businesses to deliver better customer-centric and geographic area-specific services
• Location-tracking applications help online travel booking service providers to precisely spot the user’s location and reach them without hassle.
• GPS tracking systems also help e-Commerce players track location and customers’ preferences and deliver more personalized services to them.
• Geolocation-based AR applications help real-estate companies offer virtual tour services to their patrons.
• Location-based marketing strategies help marketers reach out to geographically targeted audiences faster than ever.
• Strategic use of location-based marketing services in mobile apps makes businesses legends in their native places.
• Dedicated GPS trackers help users locate their vehicles, smart accessories, and even kids. It will increase customer loyalty towards the brand.
• Geolocation tracking healthcare apps help users find the nearest locations of healthcare service providers and get diagnosed in an emergency.
• Implementation of location tracking functionality in fitness apps allows users to position the current location of the users and distance walked in a day.

 

Which Industries Are Beneficial With Location-based Apps Development?

Location-based mobile apps are gaining increasing popularity in the market. Every industry is looking ahead to develop location-based apps to provide better services to their audience. Let us take a look at how industries are implementing location-based service apps.

Location-based Apps Use Cases by Industry

1. Use cases of location-aware apps in the Retail Industry

Walmart and IKEA like the biggest retailers are offering geolocation tracking apps to provide the best in-store experience to their customers. These location-based service applications use GPS signals to allow customers to find the nearest retail store to their geographic area and get the essentials faster.

IKEA-like leading retailers are also implementing beacon indoor navigation systems to assist targeted customers in reaching desired locations with ease.

Food delivery apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats also comes under the retail sector. These apps are implemented using a geolocation tracking feature. This feature allows users to track their orders in real-time on maps.

2. Applications of location tracking apps in Transportation

The best use case of location-based apps in the travel industry is tracking vehicles through GPS signals.

Uber-like popular GPS-enabled mobile time tracking app or online cab booking app for android/iOS use tracks user’s location to pair them with nearest drivers for quick pick up. This location tracking feature of Uber helps ueesers to track their cab and the estimated time of its arrival in real-time.

GetTaxi, the best online taxi booking app in the UK, is also featured with GPS tracking capabilities to monitor their rides continuously.

3. Geolocation apps use cases in Banking and Finance.

Location-based apps development offers plenty of benefits to both bankers and their customers. Banking mobile apps for android and iOS with geolocation feature advanced mobile banking apps security level.

The GPS tracking mobile banking apps determines whether the transaction aligns within the user’s mobile usual location or not. These insights would help bankers verify the clients’ identity based on GPS information, prevent fraudulent transactions, and send alerts to the account holders.

4. Ecommerce Location-based apps use cases

The demand for location-aware mobile apps development from e-Commerce industry players is increasing at a rapid pace. To provide a more personalized online shopping experience, e-commerce giants are enabling their marketplace apps geolocation tracking capabilities.

Besides, by tracking user’s location and their purchasing behavior, intelligent mobile apps allow businesses to run a personalized sales approach by sending location-based product offers and messages to the user’s smartphone.

5. Uses of location tracking mobile apps in Automotive

Here is another industry which is adopted GPS tracking apps to a greater extent. Using the Internet-of-Things technology-enabled sensors, the location-based mobile apps playing a key role in monitoring and managing the fleet all the time.

Onfleet, GeoTab, and US Fleet Tracking are a few famous vehicle tracking and asset management apps in the USA. These apps with built-in geolocation features track vehicles or fleets in real-time continuously and give information about the live location of vehicles or assets.

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6. Advantages of location-based mobile apps in Media and Entertainment

Most used and popular social media apps or chatting apps like Instagram and WhatsApp are enabling location tracking and sharing functionalities. These apps allow users to view the map, search for locations, and send their current locations to contacts.

Grindr-like location-based social networking and online dating applications are enabling geolocation capacities to help users find the proximity of their connections. The GPS-based dating apps also give the flexibility to turn off the location-aware feature if they want.

Which Technologies Are Used in Location-based Apps Development?

Technologies might vary based on the application type. I mean to convey that technologies used for outdoor navigation apps development like Google Maps will be different from the technologies used for indoor navigation or in-app location-enabled apps development.

Required technologies for outdoor location-tracking apps

• GPS technology to receive signals from satellites and locate the destinations
• Assisted GPS technology for optimizing the accuracy of the GPS location
• Wi-Fi technology to collect data from the internet and position places with great accuracy.
• Cell ID to determine the location of a device when GPS signals are poor and inaccurate to locate spaces.
• The IoT technology to collect data for sensors equipped on devices and track location coordinates with 100% accuracy.

Required technologies for Indoor location-tracking apps

Indoor location tracking apps are best in navigating the users inside shopping malls, commercial buildings, etc. These types of location-tracking applications direct the users to the destination area inside a building from the place where they stand.

Here are the most used and required technologies for indoor location-tracking apps development.

• Geofencing Technology, in combination with GPS, cellular, and Wi-Fi technologies, locates the users when they enter into virtual boundaries and guides them towards the destination.
• iBeacon positioning technology using Bluetooth Low Energy signals to broadcast signals and allow users to reach locations when the users reach in-built beacons inside the building.

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Which Tools Are Used To Create Location-based Apps?

The above technologies will play a vital role in location-based application development to enable geolocation functionality. To create the best location tracking mobile apps, one must integrate the app with third-party tools, including,

Most of the location-tracking service apps use Google Maps to provide accurate navigation through the shortest routes to the users.  Here are the few Google APIs used for location-based apps for android app /iOS app development.

Tools for GPS Navigation App development for Android OS

• Google Maps API
• Google Places API
• Google Geolocation API
• Google Maps Directions API
• Google Distance Matrix API
• Google Maps Android SDK
• MapView class
• Open Street Map

Tools used for GPS tracking application development for iPhone OS

• Google Maps SDK for iOS
• Apple Maps Kit
• Core Location API
• Google Maps API

 Technology stack and tools are also key factors that decide the cost of GPS tracking apps. Geo-location based app development company selects the right tech stack to make your GPS tracking app development successful.

A Step-by-Step Guide To Location Tracking Mobile Apps Development

How to build a GPS tracking app? Or how to create a location-based app? No worries, here is the complete guide to location based app development.

Step-1: Market Research

If you plan to develop location-based mobile apps, do thorough market research to explore hidden opportunities for apps development within the targeted market. Also, get all the information related to competitors and the functionalities of location-tracking apps offered to their audience.

By doing so, you can offer a unique geolocation tracking app with more benefits that are not available to customers in the rival application.

Step-2: Analyze Target Audience

It is the second most important factor to consider while developing location-based mobile applications. Enterprises need to analyze the preferences of people they want to target.

The insights into customer’s choices, needs, and what they are looking for in geolocation apps let you create a resourceful location tracking app for your audience.

Step-3: Right Technology Stack

Selecting the right technologies and tools is essential for GPS-based apps development. A different set of technologies are required for indoor and outdoor navigation apps development. By default, location-tracking apps need Google Maps SDK for both Android and iOS apps development.

If you want to create geolocation tracking apps without using GPS technologies, you can use iBeacon or any wireless network to trace positions and deliver seamless navigation to your audience.

Step-4: Finalize the Features

It is a fact that the set of features and functionalities that you offer through the application will decide the success rate of apps. If an application meets the user’s needs, it will surely hit the app stores shortly.

Before commencing the development stage, we should gather app requirements and choose user-centric features. Geolocation apps mandate map view, location guide through voice, pinning users’ location, route mapping, location-based notifications, location sharing, etc.

A few GPS trackers also need to be included with parking slots tracking facility, upload photo and find locations, and updates on traffic, etc. So, based on your industry and target audience, add the required features to your application.

Step-5: App Design and Prototyping

Mobile app prototyping gives an idea about how your final application looks like. A prototype should reflect User experience and User interface-based view of the application and its working flow between pages.

At this stage, you can also make changes to the design by removing unnecessary app elements, if needed, and streamline the development process.

Designing a visual app prototype will also help in evaluating technical feasibility, improving apps visibility and quality, presenting future app ideas to customers in a clear way, reducing development risks, and many more.

Step-7: Commence Development

The development phase of an application plays important role in the entire location-based Mobile app development life cycle. Once the wireframe design is completed, we can start the development process using agile software development methods.

Generally, the mobile apps development process will take four to six months. But based on the app’s complexity level, the time might cross the boundaries.

Step-8: App Testing

The final step in the software application development process is the testing phase. In this phase, the quality assurance team checks for bugs in the application, if any. App functionality and its performance parameters will also be determined in this stage to deliver an efficient and quick responding mobile application.

Our experienced mobile app testers conduct various app tests to increase its transparency and quality. Let us know your app idea and get a free app quote!

Along with these, choosing the best mobile apps developers is also a tough task for enterprises that are planning to invest in mobile application development. Hiring the right app development partner who has vast experience in the industry benefits you in terms of apps quality and price.

So, we being the leading mobile apps development company in the USA, be it an android-based GPS tracking app or native iOS app development, we suggest businesses scale the platform usage of their targeted audience and invest. This business strategy would help enterprises generate more profits through high app downloads.

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How Much Does GPS Tracking Cost?

Cost Of Location-based or GPS-based or Wi-Fi/Cellular Networks-enabled Location Tracking Mobile Apps Development

Location based mobile app development is estimated that the development of a location-based app with minimum features will costs around $45,000-60,000 for a single platform.

GPS tracking app development cost will also go beyond $100,000-150,000 if it is integrated with advanced features and has a complex design.

The cost of cross-platform location-tracking service applications with complex app UI and Geofencing functionalities will be around $200K-$280K.

However, location based app development cost might be decided altered on the below factors-

• Geolocation apps features
• Location-based apps UI design complexity
• Location tracking application development platform
• The technology stack used for GPS tracking apps
• Hourly rate of location tracking mobile apps development companies
  • Location-based mobile app development rates in London, UK- $50-99 per hour.
  • Geolocation tracking mobile apps development cost in Boston and Austin, USA is $150-$200 per hour.
  • The hourly rate of location-based service mobile apps development in San Francisco, USA is $100-150.
  • The cost of location-aware applications on android or iPhone operating systems in Canada is $100-150 per hour.
  • Leading mobile app development service providers in Bangalore, India will charge around $25-55 per hour.
• Team size of Mobile Apps Development Company

9 Best GPS Location Tracking Mobile Apps for Android and iOS

1. Google Maps

• GPS Functionality: Navigating locations, getting real-time updates on traffic, exploring destinations, offline maps (to search and navigate without internet connection), and voice-enabled route mapping. Besides, street view and indoor photos of restaurants and more.
• App rating: 4.7/5
• App Downloads: over 50 billion
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

2. Waze- A GPS Navigation Software

• GPS Functionality: The best GPS tracking app for Android and iOS platforms in 2021. It features live GPS tracking, traffic alerts, and guides through traffic-free routes, plays music from the Waze app, information on estimated destination arrival time, and voice guidance to direct the routes.
• App rating: 4.1/5
• App Downloads: over 100 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

3. Sygic GPS Navigation & Offline Maps

• GPS Functionality: It is the most downloaded and trusted GPS navigation apps in the world. It allows users to find locations and also enables users to store location maps and use them in offline mode.
• App rating: 4.5/5
• App Downloads: over 50 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

4. Life360 

• GPS Functionality: locate family members in real-time, alerts to family members on arrival, maps, real-time location sharing feature
• App rating: 4.5/5
• App Downloads: over 50 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

5. Foursquare City Guide

• GPS Functionality: Traces users’ location, sends personalized recommendations and tips on places, and allows location sharing.
• App rating: 4.2/5
• App Downloads: over 10 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

6. MapFactor Navigator

• GPS Functionality: Voice navigation in various languages, door-to-door routing, visual maps display with distance, guide routes based on vehicle type, updates on live HD traffic information, offline navigation, and many more.
• App rating: 4.6/5
• App Downloads: over 10 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

7. Phone Tracker

• GPS Functionality: accurately locates Kids & tracks phones by number in seconds, sends GPS notifications on kids’ movements.
• App rating: 4.5/5
• App Downloads: over 50 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

8. iSharing- GPS location tracker

• GPS Functionality: tracks locations in real-time, alerts and notifications on arriving destinations, location sharing, and best for tracing stolen phones, etc.
• App rating: 4.5/5
• App Downloads: over 10 million
• App Availability: Android and iOS

 

9. Glympse- Best Location sharing app

• GPS Functionality: GPS tracking, real-time location sharing, sends estimated arrival to others if the users are trapped in traffic.
• App rating: 4.2/5
• App Downloads: over 5 million
• App Availability: Android

 

• Ride with GPS
• GPS Functionality: voice navigation, bike route planner, tracks riding activities, navigates and records upcoming rides, gives feedbacks in real-time, offline maps, Bluetooth sensor support for tracking heart rate while riding, etc.
• App rating: 4.2/5
• App Downloads: one million+
• App Availability: Android and iOS

These are a few GPS trackers used for finding locations and reaching destinations. Now, we will have a look at on-demand service apps that are equipped with location-tracking capabilities.

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Trending Instant Service Apps with Location Tracking Capabilities

App Name	App Category
Uber Eats, Swiggy, and Zomato	Online Food Delivery Apps
Airbnb, Skyscanner, and Tripadvisor	Online Travel Booking Apps
Tinder, League, and Bumble	Online Dating Apps
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Snapchat	Online chatting apps or Social Networking apps
Google Fit, Strava GPS, and Map My Fitness Workout Trainer,	Best fitness apps
Google Photos and Explorest	Photo location finders

Future Of Location Tracking Mobile Apps Development

According to the market reports, the location-based services apps are anticipated to grow by $153 billion in the next coming three to four years. Such a growing number will create a competitive landscape for GPS-enabled mobile applications development.

This rapid increase in demand for real-time geolocation tracking apps will ensure bright scope for businesses across retail, transportation, food delivery, E-Commerce, automotive, fitness, etc.

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Wrapping Up

We hope that this article is helpful for those who plan to develop GPS tracking apps or location-based service apps.

GPS tracking or location-based apps for iOS and Android devices are the best digital solutions for users to navigate places, locate assets, track missing kids, and online deliveries.

As location-based apps development is in high market demand, we have already created the best app development approaches and strategies in advance. Such fore planning helps USM create best-in-class location tracking service apps for our customers across retail, banking, healthcare, travel & logistics, and many other industries. As discussed, the cost to develop a location-based app depends on factors that we’ve discussed here.

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