Intelligence The huge, growing amount of data we have available, is powering data analytics and artificial intelligence is taking advantage of that. Notice how Digital Twins have “embedded” some of the Vs characterising big data: Volume: the volume of data aggregated in a digital twin varies considerably depending on the …
Read More »Uhm, is this a photo?
Lots of excitement on April 10th as a team of scientists released the first ever photo of a black hole. The news has leaked through the media but still something was unexpected. It was not the black hole in our Galaxy but one in the M87 galaxy, farther away from …
Read More »Augmented Machines and Augmented Humans are converging II
Awareness You can’t be smart without understanding the context you operate in and the very first step is becoming aware of what is going on. You need to sense your environment. The vision of a world that can be understood by scattering sensors all around was articulated by HP in …
Read More »Augmented Machines and Augmented Humans are converging I
Today I am giving a keynote at the 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, presenting some of the outcomes of the IEEE FDC Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative. Here a summary of the points I am making. =========== We have experienced a significant evolution in …
Read More »Meet Coffee Haus, a personalised coffee making robot
I have posted news of robots flipping hamburgers, of robo-waiters and now is time of robo-coffee. At first having a robot to serve coffee may seem an overshoot: we already have coffee vending machines in many places accepting coins (and more recently smartphone enabled payments) that in some way are …
Read More »Rivers of bits under the oceans
Our planet is encircled by optical fibre cables laid under the oceans and connecting continents. As of 2018 there were over 350 fibre optic cables under the oceans, for a total length exceeding 1 million km and a capacity in the Pbps range (total capacity). Although the present capacity exceeds …
Read More »Swapping batteries? No … but YES
One of the big issues for electric vehicles is the long time it takes to recharge the batteries. Even the fastest recharging station today requires quite a bit of time. much more that filling her up with fuel. So why not just stop at a service point and swap the …
Read More »Home printing, really meaning home printing!
3D printing keeps growing in performance, decreasing in cost and therefore expanding the fields of applications. A good example is the area of house printing. The first 3D printers for building constructions appeared, as commercial product in 2017, and could print a 40 square meter house for little more than …
Read More »Taking the helm and steering the Digital Transformation
The big issue, facing today companies and organisations alike, is how to jump on the Digital Transformation bandwagon without disrupting their ongoing business. Starting from scratch is simply not an option if you have a company. You need to leverage on your company’s assets using them as a springboard. This …
Read More »Everything can be smarter, so why not a bike?
Bikes today are a long cry, in terms of technology and performance from the ones I used as a kid, sixty years ago (my grandfather had a little bike workshop so you can imagine I had access to the latest …). In the past twenty years the materials used have …
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