3D printing is touted to be the technology to replace injection molding. Injection molding is a highly beneficial manufacturing technology where there is a high tooling cost. The high tooling cost is acceptable when the production volume is relatively large. In metal AM set up and tooling costs are low but the variable cost is …
LG U+ and Hanyang University have recently (in mid-March 2019) tested an autonomous driving car with its 5G mobile communication commercial network. This was the first time for Seoul to test a 5G commercial network based autonomous vehicle. This is not completely surprising as South Korean telecom companies have been at the forefront of advancing …
AI has been generating hype in the past few years. This can be attributed to the futuristic media coverage about superhuman AI. Furthermore, films and television sci-fi content has projected artificial intelligence as a threat to mankind. Real commercial applications and challenges of AI seem to be lost deluge of such content. For a large …
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The San Francisco based highly funded research organization OpenAI has a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity, primarily by attempting to build safe AGI and share the benefits with the world. The mission and the talent pool has attracted great fans and prominent backers such as Elon Musk, Peter …
Automotive lighting has been a major component of automotive safety for a long time. Statistics suggest that a majority of accidents are caused in the night which makes good lighting an important feature. While the halogen front lamps have remained the mainstay of lighting for long, the emergence of LEDs has helped transform the automotive …
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Intel Mobileye and NVIDIA are two of the largest autonomous vehicle technology platform providers with both complete hardware and software solutions. Both have significant automotive partners and technology adoption of their own platforms. But, the two companies especially their CEOs have publicly sparred or ridiculed each other at various occasions in trying to emphasize the …
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Throughout the past decade, we have seen the Blockchain wave. Many real-life applications and use cases have been proposed in this past decade. But come 2019, everyone’s talking about Blockchain Winter. That blockchain is just hype. And that nowhere it is being implemented. Well, that’s not correct entirely. Agriculture and food industry are proving to …
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat in media coverage as battery electric vehicles have become more prominent. This is due to the considerable rise of Tesla and then a flurry of activity in the battery electric vehicle space from all the major automobile manufacturers. But, what does this mean for hydrogen fuel …
You might have seen the spectacular video of a flock of drones creating beautiful formations in the sky during Olympics 2018. You might also have read in the news that two Russian bases in Syria were attacked by a set of 13 drones guided by GPS, last year. Are they Drone swarms? Well, technically they …
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With growing interest in the area of machine learning and automation, there has been a wave of development in the area of robotics. Most people in the tech community and elsewhere have come across the common parlance regarding “robots stealing our jobs”. However, the currently available category of robots suffers a major drawback. These robots …
