Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

LucidPix has announced the testing of their new App based on artificial intelligence that will allow the creation of a 3D image (or better, the perception of a 3D image) starting from a plain vanilla photo you have taken with your smartphone. The app is not available yet, it should …

We have already had 5 drone generations (not considering military drones) with the 6th in the deployment and the 7th in the making: Basic Remote Control Fixed camera, low res video recording and digital images, manual control Assisted piloting (obstacle avoidance), 2 axes gimbal camera mounting, HD recording Autopilot mode, …

The drone industry has kept growing in the last decade, taking on board the consumer market and extending the application range in commercial domain. Hence, it is a no brainer to predict that at least for 2020 this trend will continue. According to Drone Industry Insights report “Global Drone Outlook 2020: …

One of the defining characteristics of our human species is the way we communicate using voice. Very few other species have this capability and those having it show a very rudimentary set of “voice messages” (this obviously has a lot to do with the vocal apparatus as well as with …

The last decade has been characterised by significant progress, and widespread use, of Artificial Intelligence, thanks to the abundance of data and the possibility of extracting meaning out of them. Of course, high performance computation and storage capabilities at very low cost made this feasible. This has led the big …

As 2019 wraps up I took a look at what went wrong with technologies this year. Unfortunately there is plenty, and you can Google for tech failures 2019 and spend some time browsing several of them. I am not surprised at all. We have had, in 2019 as in the …

Yesterday, December 21st, 2019, opened the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It will remain open till March 2020. An area of the expo is Eyes of the City, curated by Carlo Ratti. It showcases a variety of technology applications to highlight the growing impact of Artificial …

We have been using tools for as long as we defined ourselves “human”, actually the use of tools pre-dates home sapiens, going back 2.3 million years ago at the time of homo habilis (we, sapiens, started to walk the world some 500,000 years ago). The Human-Tool interface was straightforward you …

Our quest for cheap, usable energy is unrelenting. In these last few years we have added the additional requirement of sustainability both in terms of using renewable resources and i terms of using processes that are not affecting the environment (as an example, leveraging tides is surely a way to …

We have known for as long as we spotted unicellular organisms that they can react to their ambient, getting closer to palatable food and moving away from unfavourable encounter. However, so far scientists believed that the reaction of these little critters was cabled: you prompt them with the same stimulus …