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Fully Automated farming – Farms without farmers In UK the Hands Free Hectare project carried out at Harper Adams University has shown that with current technologies is possible to automate the whole farming process from planting, tending to harvesting. The automation has been achieved upgrading existing farming equipment with electronics …

We went through 3 farming revolutions in our 300,000+ history. The first one happened some 10,000 years ago with the “domestication” of some plants (like wheat, barley…). That increased the yield of agriculture through selection of those plants that best suited our nutritional needs. The second one initiated some 5000 …

As marketeers are busy extolling the virtues of 5G as the ultimate wireless system filling all of your needs and all of your dreams (and Operators are busy deploying and upgrading 4G!)  a few people are already looking at a new generation aiming at “filling the gaps between 5G promises …

Back in 1947 Einstein said something like “the fourth world war will be fought by throwing rocks” (there are a few different quotes attributed to Einstein on this point and no consensus on the precise wording he used). The point he made is that a third world war would be …

Let’s now consider the Extreme Automation cluster looking at technologies that are being experimented today and that can be deployed commercially around 2030: Autonomous ships and submarines, Autonomous passenger aircraft, Drone freight delivery, Autonomous robotic surgery, Automated knowledge discovery and Self writing software. Autonomous ships and submarines The seas and …

Looking back at the last 2 centuries we see that automation has taken hold in many areas, for sure in manufacturing, and it took place because we had some repetitive -easy- tasks that could be automated. More and more we have seen that automation is going beyond reliving a blue …

The “Intelligence” of a car is under scrutiny in these weeks after the accident where a self driving car hit, and killed, a woman that was crossing the road. In a way people were surprised: how could a car that is able to navigate the maze of a city roads, …

Painting the five Olympic rings in the sky using 1,200 drones was spectacular and it was watched by billion of people around the world. There were other autonomous systems roaming the Olympic area. Few kilometres away 8 universities competed in the Ski Robot Challenge organised by the Korea Institute for …

Self driving cars are making the headlines on media around the world, however it will take several more years before they will become a commercial reality. At the same time, mostly hidden to the mass market perception, other kind of fully autonomous systems are being deployed: there are several fully …

Marketing is hard at work to send the message that you can’t live without 1Gbps mobile connectivity, that is why 5G is really needed. As you are wondering if that is really the case Qualcomm has announced the availability of the Snapdragon X24 chip that can sustain 2Gbps on LTE …