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4. The future of parcel delivery Every time I get out of my condo I see a few boxes have been delivered, waiting to be picked up. Sometimes I wonder how many parcels are moving around every day.  Well, according to Pitney Bowes, in 2021 159 billion parcels were shipped …

To conclude the overview of the 2023 Technology  Predictions let’s explore the ones that are expected to reach the commercial stage further down the lane, let’s say near the end of the decade, 2029 and beyond.  Given the longer term horizon these technologies are better tackled by universities. For sure …

As described in the previous post, the team ended up in identifying 19 technology predictions that ordered in terms of likelihood of success are as follows: Remote Healthcare & Wearables: Remote healthcare with advanced wearables will enable patients to obtain remote medical assistance, physicians to perform procedures and consult with …

Thanks to robotics and artificial intelligence progress, more and more jobs can become automated, not just those inside a manufacturing company, also the ones face to face with the end customer. Fast food companies have started this shift several years ago by creating kiosks for self-ordering on their premises and …

Facebook is changing its name to Metaverse to highlight the vision of a future that will be lived in the cyberspace (along with life in the physical space). Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, along with sensors, displays, artificial intelligence and Digital Twins, are the enabling technologies. The road towards a …

Carbon Robotics is a start up focussing on what I would consider as a niche (although it is actually a very large niche): weeding. They developed an autonomous robot equipped with 12 HiRes cameras and AI software to detect weeds. Once detected a laser beam strikes, zaps, the weed without …

Possibly the biggest impact of the Industrial Revolution has been on … agriculture. By using machines for farming it made possible to increase productivity 100 folds (both in terms of yield per acre and much more in terms of human work to till, farm, harvest the field). The employment in …

Technology is progressing and this is great. However, sometimes I wonder if this is the progress we are looking for… I stumbled on Ebo Catpal, a robot that, as the name suggests, has been designed to entertain your cat, becoming its pal. Assuming getting a pal for your feline friend …

It turns out that robots can be fired too, for low performance! Walmart started a project one year ago employing robots to track inventory in some 500 of their stores. The robots were designed and produced by Bossa Nova (watch the clip), a Pittsburg based start up. Their robots can …

I should confess I never suspected that somebody would count the number of potholes repaired over a period of time in a given Country. Apparently, over the last 10 years 18 million potholes were fixed in the UK at a cost of 1B pounds. According to the same statistics the …