Over the last 150 years communication infrastructures have become more and more pervasive to the point that most of the time people no longer take notice. One is now becoming aware of a communications infrastructure in those rare situations where … there is no communications infrastructure. The increased processing capabilities, …
Read More »Making sure Digital Reality goes hand in hand with Reality
Over the last 30 years we have become better and better in extracting data from the world around us. Sensors based on a variety of ever better (and cheaper) technologies can detect a variety of real world parameters and more recently data analytics, machine learning and deep neural networks have …
Read More »Evolutionary Robotics
OK, today’s is April Fools’ day so here I go with a topic that looks like a prank, but it is not (or is it?). (some) Robots will be able to replicate themselves and generate offsprings. More than that. Their replica might be a bit better, in evolutionary terms, than …
Read More »Eye care? Let AI give a hand
Technology progress in medicine is providing more and more data, which is great. At the same time these data need to be processed and … understood. Take the Ocular Coherence Tomography (OCT). It allows an ophthalmologist to look at a patient’s retina with micro-metric resolution, both the surface of the …
Read More »A robot to pick up apples from a tree
Ever walked in an orchard and, feeling a bit like Adam, picked up a nice apple? What could be easier than that. You see the tree, all the nice apples hanging around, you just need to choose the one looking nicer, and probably tastier , stretch your arm and you …
Read More »Curved image sensors? Good but late?
A digital camera is harvesting light in front of the lens and takes it to the sensor. Rays bounced from what is in front of the camera come from any direction and are bent by the lenses to hit the image sensor. Those rays that are directed to the edges …
Read More »Using bits to design the materials of the future
On Planet Earth, and as far as we know in the whole galaxy and beyond, we have some 92 different types of atoms that over time have aggregated in different forms (both in terms of molecules composed by different atoms and molecules having the same atoms arranged in different structures). …
Read More »A Digital Transformation Course
So, the Digital Transformation is already happening. Different industries and different organisations have been involved each one in its own way. Some might even have been spared so far by the wave that is getting wider and bigger. But even those will not be safe for ever. Now, why should …
Read More »Genetic engineering serendipity
According to an article on the MIT Technology Review a team of Chinese scientists have performed a genetic modification using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique to delete the CCR5 gene. This deletion should remove a CCR5 receptor on cells membranes removing the point used by the HIV virus to infect the cell. …
Read More »Scaling from 74,000 to over one million should make a difference, shouldn’t it?
In Italy there are, as of January 2019, some 74,000 antennas covering the whole Country. As a matter of fact, there are many more antennas that go unaccounted for, the ones in private homes and offices sustaining WiFi communications, plus many more embedded in devices for short range communications, like …
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