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Drones have come a long way in this last twenty years. From being secret military tools (and weapons) to additional gear for wedding photographers. Their price has plummeted and they have become so widely spread to create a problem in many environment to the point of being forbidden in several …

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 …

Xpeng is a Chinese company focussing on electric cars, a Chinese equivalent, if I may say so, of the American Tesla. If you look at their website you’ll see that they are a forward looking company. The playing clip that welcomes you says: Where next? The company is producing electric …

Technology is a tool, it has always been a tool. However, there have been some technologies that have shaped evolution and actually prompted evolution. The very first technologies (stone cutting -extracting and shaping-, bronze smelting, and iron/steel production) gave the name to entire epochs. More recently we have had use …

Drone Industry Insights have released its latest infographic (and report) showing a steady increase (9.4% CAGR in the US) in both sectors and types of application. Overall they expect the US market to reach a value of 41.3 B$ in 2026, split into hardware (the drone itself and the adds-on), software …

The ongoing Russia-Ukrainian war is bringing to the fore among many other things the role of technology and in particular the one of artificial intelligence. This blog is not about politics nor taking sides and I’ll stick to that. However, let me say, loud and clear, that waging a war, …

I have to say I am impressed by this news of the first flying wind farm. It is at a prototype stage but it is the very idea that is amazing me. Rather than having those gigantic wind farms built on ground why can we get a similar result by …

Bullet trains have circulated on rails for some decades now, starting in Japan on October 1st 1964 in time for the Tokyo Olympics. After that first bullet train, Shinkansen, we have seen hgh speed trains expanding in Europe and more recently in China. The first bullet train, still in operation …

The Israeli attack to Gaza in mid-May 2021, was probably the first example of using drone swarm technology in the field. I am looking at it only from the technical side leaving out all (most important) aspects of “right vs wrong” usage. Each drone is an autonomous system with its …

There are already plenty of devices without a steering wheel! Think about the old Roomba, the autonomous vacuum cleaner introduced back in 2002 by iRobot. Well, it bumped on chairs and walls but that was not a big deal. Upon bumping it backtracked and changed its direction: no problem! Subsequent …