The World Economic Forum has published its 2018 Future of Jobs report, that makes for an interesting reading. The horizon is at 2022 (with some forecasting at 2025) and it contains some interesting considerations. The report is based on interviews to key people (top executives and HR heads) in several …
Read More »Cooperative 3D printing
3D printing is able to manufacture (additive manufacturing) from tiny parts to big turbine fan and even be able to print a whole house. Whatever is printed, however, has be be “smaller” than the printer. This has been an accepted fact so far. Now, however, a research team at Nanyang …
Read More »Humans vs machines: Who’s winning? -II
Machine over man Extending our sphere of knowledge by using machines as tools is a grand idea…as long as we’re on the winning side. But are we truly still in command of our intelligent machine creations? If the answer to this is “no,” we may find that we have a …
Read More »Humans vs machines: Who’s winning? -I
I was asked to write a short paper for Tech Talks on Humans vs Machines. It has been published on August 30th and I’ll post it here with some comments as a corollary to the series of posts I wrote in the last month on transhumanism. Enjoy! The rise of …
Read More »Robots Swarm inspecting your airplane engines
Today, inspecting an airplane engine is a complicated endeavour. Before any take off engines are inspected on the outside, looking for tell tale signs of problems. It is not possible, however, to look inside. This is done when a major check is scheduled. To look inside several parts of the …
Read More »Transhumanism: Evolving the Human Body VII
Life without disease In the last century health care made incredible progresses. Purified water and better food take the lion share in this progress, although they are often underestimated. Drugs, surgery (enabled by anesthesia), antibiotics and more recently anti-immune therapy have fought diseases that were killing millions of people. On …
Read More »I’ve got a feeling
A collaboration among researchers at Stanford and Seoul National University has resulted in the creation of an artificial sensory nerve. A sensory nerve is a complex entity, part of the somatosensory system, that is able to integrate different physical stimuli into a tactile information. Our sense of touch generate data …
Read More »Shall I tip the robot?
Robots are entering the Chinese restaurant scene. Robot-waiters, robot-cooks, robot-cleaners have made their appearance in China restaurants and several signs seem to indicate that they are there to stay. In Kushan city, watch the clip, there is a robot welcoming you and taking you to your seat, another will promptly …
Read More »Looking at security makes me feel … insecure!
Yesterday I discovered this nice infographic produced by Drone Industry Insights where you can see the MANY threats in the area of drones. I would have never though there could be so many, even though looking at each single one I have to agree that the threat exists. One of …
Read More »The Hive doesn’t need humans… but for oranges!
Ocado is a UK on-line grocery serving customers in England since 2002. Over these 16 years it grew significantly serving today some 560,000 customers making it the largest on line grocery store. In the on-line business, even more than in the brick and mortar, it is crucial to be efficient …
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