Tag Archives: digital twins

Intel and Rolls Royce have announced a collaboration to create a world wide system to support autonomous ship navigation to make commercial shipping safer and more effective. The oceans are huge, and seas are quite broad too, so it would seem that autonomous navigation shouldn’t be such a big issue. …

Digital twins are becoming more and more pervasive, I know, yet I was surprised seeing one loaded on a train in Verona. As you can see in the photo I took there was a yellow container with the sign: “Rail 3D Asset Digital Twin”. Intriguing. I did some investigation on …

Virtual Reality appeared as concept back in the middle of 1980ies and thanks to the amazing progress in processing capacity (highly needed to create artificial images) and in wearable devices has found a few niches, mostly in gaming with some application in design and manufacturing. Augmented Reality came a bit …

As shown in the figure, taken from the WEF 2018 Future of Jobs report infographic, several jobs are expected to decline over the coming few years affecting some 73 million people in the world (affecting means people losing their jobs). The good news is that 133 million people will find …

Enhanced Intelligence and digital hardware enhancement We are the expression of our genes. However, this expression is influenced by a variety of environmental factors. Take the ability to play piano. Yes there are some people that are more inclined to music (musical ear we say) but it is unlikely that …

I wrote this article for Age of Robots and I like to share it with you on this blog since many of the ideas discussed derive from the work being done in the IEEE FDC Symbiotic Autonomous System Initiative. By the way, this will be one of the key topic …

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 …

A number of industries are creating digital twins, digital replicas of products, like GE, Tesla, NASA. The idea is to mirror a product in bits keeping the bit replica synchronised with the real one. This allows various types of analyses on the digital twin that can provide insight on the …

This is nothing new, it is about an Indian company, Chitale Dairy, that back in 2015 started to use technology to improve farmers’ herds health, resulting in more milk being produced and increased farmers’ wealth. After 2 years they are managing over 200,000 cows in the state of Maharashtra through …

Processing data costs close to nothing. If you have a huge amount of data you can extract meaning looking at relations. Think about knowing what medicine you are taking. It provides very little value, surely it does not provide any value to you swallowing the pill every day: you already …