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| Welcome to the world of muscle-powered robots. No, we’re not quite at the level of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator, but there has been a development that brings us one step closer. Researchers led by Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have installed a remote control in a machine that combines soft materials (living…
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| A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has developed a way to monitor the progression of movement disorders using motion capture technology and AI.
In two ground-breaking studies, published in Nature Medicine, a cross-disciplinary team of AI and clinical researchers have shown that by combining human movement data gathered from wearable tech with a powerful new medical AI technology they are able to identify clear movement patterns, predict future disease progression and significantly increase the efficiency of clinical trials in two very different rare disorders, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Friedreich’s ataxia (FA). |
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| Joe O’Brien, Global Corporate Communications Manager, Sabio Group, explores what’s next for ChatGPT and CX AI.
Over the last few weeks, you may have heard lots of noise about ChatGPT, the new model for conversational AI that was launched by OpenAI – the AI research and deployment company – at the end of November.
What is particularly striking about ChatGPT is that it took just five days to reach one million signed-up users, and it’s estimated that figure may already be over two million. In comparison, Instagram took three months to reach that number, Spotify five months, and Twitter two years. |
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| A new study from Juniper Research has found that 5G IoT (Internet of Things) connections will reach 116 million globally by 2026; rising from 17 million in 2023.
It predicts that the healthcare sector and smart city services will drive this 1,100% growth over the next three years.
The comprehensive research examined 5G adoption across key sectors, such as the automotive industry, mobile broadband and smart homes, and forecasts that the healthcare and smart cities market will account for over 60% of 5G IoT devices by 2026. |
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| Organisations have been dealing with a myriad of uncertainties affecting their business operations over the past few years, but they are finally starting to see some stability in their operating environment.
While this stability is welcome, the key for most reliability and maintenance organisations as we head into the new year is resilience – having the strength and flexibility to weather the constant changes that have become the norm.
Here Aaron Merkin, Chief Technology Officer for Fluke Reliability discusses resilience in business in order to move forward. |
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| Future-oriented manufacturing is all about flexible and responsive operations that can promptly address market demands based on data and new insights. With highly regulated manufacturing processes, can pharmaceutical production manufacturers embrace agile strategies to improve their competitiveness? The short answer is yes – provided the right automation solutions are used.
Companies in a multitude of sectors are rethinking their approach to manufacturing and adopting strategies driven by ‘smart’ technologies. Factories, for example, are being upgraded with innovative, data-driven technologies that communicate with each other to optimise operations. In effect, industrial automation represents a paradigm shift, where processes and operating conditions are no longer set in stone. |
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| A McDonald’s in Fort Worth, Texas has become its first largely automated location worldwide, with customers going to the golden arches able to be served up a Big Mac by a conveyor rather than being handed it by a human. The fast-food giant believes the move will push the limits of the brand to deliver for customers ‘faster and earlier than ever before’.
Opening in December of 2022, the location is ‘considerably smaller’ than a typical McDonald’s, the company state, and does operate a team of staff ‘comparable to other stores’. But the staff focus has shifted to making and packing orders instead of taking or delivering them, with customers who venture inside placing their order taken via a kiosk and having them grab it from a shelf. |
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| Business owners are bombarded every single day by companies trying to sell the magic bullet that is IIoT technology but beware the hype. In fact, your industrial IoT solution has a good chance it will just waste your time. It’s important to navigate the misinformation and find out the real story of the Industrial Internet of Things. Andy Graham, Solutions Manager, SolutionsPT further explores. |
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| While COP27 reaffirmed the urgency of the climate crisis, concerns are rising around whether meeting global targets is feasible. But as world leaders debate whether enough is being done, many sustainability actions can be taken at a manufacturing level. Here, Richard Mount, Director of Sales at ASIC design and supply company Swindon Silicon Systems, describes how one of the most environmentally troublesome industries, manufacturing, can make its operations more efficient.
The gap between most countries’ actual commitments to limiting global warming to +1.5˚C and the emissions currently being produced show the degree to which this target has become impossible. In the words of COP26 president, Alok Sharma, speaking at COP27: the goal itself is “on life support.” |
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| It’s a bird…it’s a drone…it’s…a bit of both. It looks like the UAV (uncrewed aerial vehicles) industry could get an uplift, as a recent study by Lund University in Sweden assert to have broadened its understanding of bird flight through their creation of a feathered robotic wing. The research team believe this development could lead to a future of more aerodynamic flapping drones.
The study reports that birds fly more efficiently by folding their wings during the upstroke. This comes after a Swedish-Swiss research team constructed a robotic wing to test various flapping strategies in a wind tunnel so they can study their individual aerodynamics. |
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