Tag Archives: Robot

Enhanced strength We have learnt to enhance our strength centuries, millennia, ago first with lever then harvesting hydraulic and then steam power. Today we have a tremendous array of machines that multiply ur strength. Our body strength has also improved since our ancestors, we have grown taller (10 cm in …

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have succeeded in creating a soft material that can self repair itself when punctured or damaged by stress. Flexible electronics has been the goal of several research in the past and good results have been obtained to the point that we have now wearable electronics …

This is a nice news, at least that’s how I see it, because it points out that the world we live in is amazingly complex in its simplicity. You see meadows and buzzing bees and that’s it. No reason to give a second thoughts about that. Yet, that is a …

Atlas, a humanoid robot 1.5 m tall, made the headlines in 2013 as one of the most advanced humanoid robot ever developed. It weighted 75kg, could carry 11kg of groceries (or anything else!), had a stereo vision (using Lidar) and 28 joints providing flexibility in its movement and the capability …

Let’s look now at the last area considered by the Imperial College Foresight study with expected impact in 2040: Human Machine interactions. Here they are pointing to three technologies:  Implantable phones, Conversational machine interfaces and  Thought control machine interfaces where the order is based on my view of likely-hood. Implantable phones …

I was reading yesterday the demise of TickTock, a Silicon Valley start up that focussed on robotics in the home. Their vision was a home where many of the chores would be done by several robots, each one with its own focussed task. Rather than building a very complex robot …

So, robots and artificial intelligence are undermining our jobs. True in certain areas, even truer tomorrow and in even more areas. However the big problem is not a robot replacing me (doing what I do better, faster, with guarantee quality, at lower cost…) rather that the digital transformation makes my …

In these last months, but the issue is not new at all, newspapers in Italy are pointing to a growing concern on job losses, as result of an increasing automation that is also becoming smarter and that is now overflowing from the factory assembly lines to percolate the whole working …

Dream reading and recording If you google for “dream reading” you’ll get plenty of pointers to sites that are supposedly helping in understanding the “magic” revealed by dreams. That goes back centuries and millennia to the times of soothsayers that are still flourishing today. Freud moved dream interpretation to a …

Let’s keep exploring technologies available today that are likely to disrupt the market, as presented in the Imperial College foresight study’s table of technology disruptions. In the cluster of Smart Planet the researchers have considered the Deep ocean wind farms, Vertical Agriculture, Wireless energy transfer, Concentrated solar power, Micro-scale ambient …