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Back in 1947 Einstein said something like “the fourth world war will be fought by throwing rocks” (there are a few different quotes attributed to Einstein on this point and no consensus on the precise wording he used). The point he made is that a third world war would be …

Humanoid sex robots Although I feel a bit uneasy in publishing news in this area I do recognise the market relevance and the social implications and I guess these are the reasons why the researchers at the Imperial College have looked at this area and foresee disruptions coming up by …

Continuing on in looking at the disruptive technologies identified by the Imperial College foresight study that are likely to impact from 2030 on let’s consider the ones clustered in the Human Augmentation set: Powered Exoskeleton and Human bio-hacking. Powered Exoskeleton There are already today quite a number of companies offering …

Let’s now consider the Extreme Automation cluster looking at technologies that are being experimented today and that can be deployed commercially around 2030: Autonomous ships and submarines, Autonomous passenger aircraft, Drone freight delivery, Autonomous robotic surgery, Automated knowledge discovery and Self writing software. Autonomous ships and submarines The seas and …

To conclude the set of technologies and technology area that are available today and can lead to market disruption let’s focus on the area of Human Machine Interactions, considering Robotic care companions and Intention decoding algorithms. Robotic care companions Japan is probably the most advanced Country in applications of robots …

Automation has becoming more and more sophisticated, it basically started with the Industrial Revolution with tools carrying out part of the workers activities, and it really boomed with computers. Now it is progressing even faster under three main enabling (broad) technology areas: sensors, actuators and artificial intelligence. The disruptive technologies …

There are several ways of keeping our cities clean and they involve technology in different degrees. The point I am making with this post is that the problem, most of the time, is not about the existence of a (technological) solution, rather it is about choosing the solution that is …

As a follow up to yesterday post on the deployment of autonomous systems, it is interesting to notice that it may happen in different ways. An example is provided in the trucking sector where we already have “platooning” with a “column” of trucks and a single driver at the head …

Looking at my wife I would most definitely say there is no need for getting “shopping help”. Yet, there seems to be many companies working on providing a variety of shopping help, researchers working on improving the effectiveness of these helps and observers betting on a growing role of Artificial …

Prosthetic limbs have reach such a sophistication that can be seen as operating in a symbiotic relation with the person having them. And in a few cases the person’s perception has fully integrated the prosthetic limb. Newer version have embedded intelligence, able to predict what it will be expected from …