Tag Archives: autonomous systems

I mentioned in a few posts in the past of the use of robots in department stores, hence in a way I was prepared to meet one in person. Yet, I have to say, it surprised me. I am in Williamstown, MA, US, as I write this post. I went …

Airbus and Dassault are pushing to have airlines and regulators approve long haul flight with just one pilot in the cockpit. The pilot union has immediately objected taking to the floor the case of Germanwings flight 9525 crash to underlie that a single pilot expose to uncontrollable risks. At first …

Autonomous flying aircraft are no news. We are reading every day, unfortunately, of autonomous drones used in combat in Ukraine and Russia. These are basically robo-craft with flying “intelligence” embedded in the aircraft itself. Quite a different challenge is to have a robot sitting in the cockpit acting as pilot. …

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 …

SRR stands for Safety, Reliability and Resilence. These three characteristics are becoming crucial as we are deploying more and more autonomous intelligent systems. For a large part of the public autonomous system is associated to a self-driving car, and, indeed, that is an example of an autonomous system. However, there …

Building construction is on an automation path: we have seen 3D printed houses, IoTs disseminated in new constructions (and retrofitted to existing ones) to support remote monitoring and operation and a growing number of constructions associated to Digital Twins from the design phase up to operations (watch the clip). Now …

Einride, a Swedish company operating the largest fleet of electric trucks in Europe, has started testing autonomous (electric) trucks in the US. Trucks are supervised by a truck driver sitting in an office in front of a large screen (watch the clip) that makes him feel like he is actually …

Small drones have become so ubiquitous that legislators all around the world are scrambling to regulate their (invasive) presence. Apart, obviously, from airspace near airports their presence is also forbidden in several places. Some Countries are requiring a registration and rules on their flights. It is not just the small …

A month ago I reported on the plan to activate a fully autonomous train in Hamburg on the S-Bahn by Deutsche Bahn (it will start operation in the first week of December 2021). Now I spotted a news of testing in Japan the possibility to have the Bullet train (operating …

When it comes to optimise flying effort geese are smart. They fly in an arrow formation, the flock has a leading goose (it leads for a while and then another replaces it) and several others forming an arrow shaped flock (these front flying geese are also replaced at short time …