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Continuing the analyses of the Huawei’s proposed 2025 technology trends: 3. Super Sight Augmented and Virtual Reality are quite widespread if we think, as an example, about the use of a smartphone as a lens providing a translation of a text by overlaying the translated text on the original one …

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, …

Today tow vehicles push the airplane away from the finger position onto the apron. The pilot power on the engines and the plane will start taxiing to the runway that in some airports can be a long one, like in Schiphol where it may take more than 20 minutes to …

Harvesting crops (and fruits…) used to make up to 40% of the total cost of farming. This is no longer so, thanks to automation. Robotic machines, ever more powerful, and smart, are not just taking the labour off this activity, they are slashing cost. They are so effective that we …

SRR stands for Safety, Reliability and Resilence. These three characteristics are becoming crucial as we are deploying more and more autonomous intelligent systems. For a large part of the public autonomous system is associated to a self-driving car, and, indeed, that is an example of an autonomous system. However, there …

When we think about the cyberspace, or the Metaverse – a cooler name in these days-, we usually think about a space of data some of them creating models of the real space. We can look at this mirrors of real space (remember Second Life?) and interact with it. There …

Several years ago I was amazed at seeing at the MIT a photo camera (well, it was, actually, a set of equipment) able to take pictures of what was around a corner using scattered light reflected by objects hidden from my line of sight.  It looked like pure magic. It …

The Industry Automotive Association is holding its flagship event this week in Munich, Germany. Among the many talks and showcases of innovation, I stumbled onto a robotic system designed to recharge EV without the need for human intervention. When we talk about autonomous vehicles we focus mostly on the driving …

Being a farmer meant spending a good deal of your life in the open, tilling, seeding, weeding, watering and harvesting. A lot of these activities have been made easier, and more effective, over the last fifty years by using machines to the point that today a farmer is more similar …

Robots have become pervasive in many sectors and their presence and capabilities are going to keep increasing in the coming years. The FTI’s report includes several areas of evolution, made possible by technology increased capabilities. In the following I provide a list (addressed in the FTI’s report) adding to each …