Tag Archives: Lidar

What can Generative AI do?

The availability of data keeps growing, including data representing text, images, video, sounds (speech) and even 3D signals (like the ones generated by LIDAR used for self-assisted driving, an area that will explode in the coming years, just imagine millions and millions of cars on the move collecting terabytes of …

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Eyes off

Mercedes Benz is the first car automaker to get autonomous driving certification at level 3. Before getting into that let’s recap the SAE 5 certification levels for autonomous driving: no automation Level 1: hands on/shared control Level 2: hands off Level 3: eyes off Level 4: mind off Level 5: steering …

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May the Force be with You

OK, this is just fun, but it shows the possibility offered by Lidar and Augmented Reality, so let’s have fun. Using the Lidar embedded in the iPhone Olivier Goguel has created an application that lets you see sparks of light, pure energy!, between your fingers as you are moving them. …

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A futuristic truck

A truck is a truck, you can’t expect advanced design wasted on a truck.Yet, Pininfarina Shanghai has decided that this should not be so. Pininfarina is a well known design leader for (luxury) cars and it is sort of surprising to see them engaging on truck design. On the other …

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Virtual Reality for Robots

Robots are becoming smarter and smarter thanks to a brain provided by artificial intelligence. However, this brain, as any brain, has to learn about its environment, what is the goal and how to achieve it selecting among different strategies that have to take into account its surrounding, This learning phase …

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Detecting viruses with your smartphone?

I still remember my wonder when I discovered I could use my smartphone as a flashlight! Just press the display on the flashlight icon and I could look at a flower during the darkest night (or, less romantically, search for lost keys under the couch…). Now my smartphone has a …

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Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXIX – Logistics

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) and Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGV) are becoming more and more common and the FTI’s report foresees a significant increase in their deployment in the logistics, most notably in warehouse automation. However, as their flexibility increases and cost decreases, we can expect to see them used in …

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Megatrends for this decade – XVII

c) On-demand production The efficiency of the distribution chains coupled with the flexibility of production lines have made possible an amazing change in the production processes and in the relation with the market (and with the end customer). Just two decades ago when buying a car you would have been …

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