If you are going to San Francisco …. you no longer need to wear flowers in your hair but you can try a unique (for now) fingernail painting done by a robot. Clockwork, a Silicon Valley start up, begun developing a nail painting robot back in 2017 and now they …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXXI – No one at the wheel 1
The trend towards autonomous mobility, in all sectors, is “unstoppable” leveraging on several technologies that have been evolving in the last decade and that are promising to become affordable in the current one. Automation in mobility feeds on the same forces that pushed automation in manufacturing: better and consistent performances …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXVII – Robots and Company 2
Robots Swarms Robots are groing in number and they are learning to cooperate. As the number of cooperative robots involved in a specific task grows, their coordination becomes more and more tricky. However, we have examples in nature where seemingly low-intelligence entities manage to cooperate achieving impressive result as a …
Read More »Robotics and AI for weeding
Possibly the biggest impact of the Industrial Revolution has been on … agriculture. By using machines for farming it made possible to increase productivity 100 folds (both in terms of yield per acre and much more in terms of human work to till, farm, harvest the field). The employment in …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XV – Tele-Health delivery
As I pointed out we have plenty of technology, and more to come, for remote monitoring of our health parameters and remote diagnoses. However, this can help only up to a certain point, beyond that you need “on-site” intervention. However, this on-site doesn’t need to be the doctor site, it …
Read More »Would you let a robo-cook decide what you like?
“I like it”, and that is basically it! When you taste a new dish, or a usual one, at home or at a restaurant you are not going into very many details on what you like, why you like it …. you eat and if you are happy … it …
Read More »Tele-Photo
Telephoto in a photographer lingo is about using a special lens to get closer to a subject still keeping your distance, It can be an artist on the stage or a lion in the savannah. In the first case you may not be able to get close to the artist, …
Read More »Megatrends for this decade – XIX
e) Instant delivery Logistic chains are one of the marvel of today’s world. They work (most of the times) seamlessly and are so effective that you can get your delivery within a single working day (it does not work for any place and for any type of goods but I …
Read More »Print your own solar panel on the garden table
Sometimes technology goes beyond imagination and this is surely one of those cases. A team of researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology in Saudi Arabia have managed to create a set of inks that can be used by a 3D printer to manufacture solar cells 1.7µm …
Read More »Dogs can sniff around, and do that with a laser …
This August workers at Ford’s Michigan Van Dyke Transmission plant are seeing two four legged robots, Spot and Fluffy, walk around the plant sniffing with their laser at all objects like high-tech dogs. The robots have been designed and produced by Boston Dynamics and are now on the market for …
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