Tesla has been leading the pack of automakers towards self driving cars and in a way it is an underdog in the complex world of automakers. Lately, major car manufacturers have unveiled plans and roadmaps to deliver completely autonomous self driving cars (that couples with electric cars) and a variety …
Read More »Robots are not the problem, the Digital Transformation is the problem! -I
In these last months, but the issue is not new at all, newspapers in Italy are pointing to a growing concern on job losses, as result of an increasing automation that is also becoming smarter and that is now overflowing from the factory assembly lines to percolate the whole working …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies beyond 2030 for Human Machine Interactions II
Humanoid sex robots Although I feel a bit uneasy in publishing news in this area I do recognise the market relevance and the social implications and I guess these are the reasons why the researchers at the Imperial College have looked at this area and foresee disruptions coming up by …
Read More »Disruptive Technologies beyond 2030 for Human Machine Interactions
To complete the list of technologies explored by the Imperial College Foresight study that will lead to disruptions in 2030 lets consider the ones in the Human Machine Interactions area: Avatar companions, Lifelong personal assistants, Humanoid sex robots and Emotionally aware machines. This list is clustering a set of technologies …
Read More »Towards self organised networks … of Digital Twins II
Processing data costs close to nothing. If you have a huge amount of data you can extract meaning looking at relations. Think about knowing what medicine you are taking. It provides very little value, surely it does not provide any value to you swallowing the pill every day: you already …
Read More »Towards a sensors infrastructure
Sensors are becoming ubiquitous and they are being deployed by the thousands every day. Each of these sensors is able to detect a specific parameter of its surrounding and they are deployed with a specific goal in mind by an interested party. Although a city already has tens of thousands …
Read More »From Smart to Intelligent Cities
Smart is being able to make the most out of a situation, leveraging on what can be available. Intelligent means the capability to look ahead and make “conscious” decisions now, taking into account their impact on a longer term. Most animals are very smart, only a few, including (sometimes) humans …
Read More »Autonomous Systems in 2018
The FDC Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative stems from the growing presence of autonomous systems in our daily life, from autonomous vacuum cleaners to drones, from self driving cars to robots in manufacturing. The evolution in this area will be both “invisible” and “spectacular”! There will be a smooth, almost imperceptible …
Read More »From Atoms to Bits: the Data Economy is real. Part I
Today I am giving a keynote talk at the Digital Economy Show in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mx, at a Conference whose team is The Digital Transformation is here. In this and the following posts I will capture some of the thoughts I shared in my keynote. The shift from atoms to …
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