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From Snapchat to Spotify, data never sleeps
The fifth annual iteration of Domo's informative visual report that provides insight into consumers' online behaviour has been released;'Data Never Sleeps 5.0'. The infographic details how much data is being generated on the internet every minute across popular applications and platforms, including Snapchat, Instagram, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and more. Domo first introduced the 'Data Never Sleeps' project in 2013, as a snapshot into the...
How will mobile robots transform material handling industries?
By 2027, mobile robotics in material handling and logistics will have become a $75bn market. It will then more than double by 2038. These staggering headline figures mask turbulent transformative change underneath: some technologies will rise and transform the fortunes of industries, fuelling growth rates far outpacing recent trends, whilst others will face with decay and obsolescence. We are at the beginning of the beginning of a transformative ...
Friend or foe? The future of Artificial Intelligence
On Thursday 22ndJune Electronic Specifier attended a panel discussion organised by Intel entitled ‘AI and Humans: living happily ever after?’ Led by presenter of ‘The Gadget Show’, Georgie Barrat, the panel was composed of four robot experts: Sam Vincent, Co-creator, Writer and Producer of Channel 4’s Humans, Sabine Hauert, Royal Society Machine Learning Working Group member, Jeremy Wyatt, Professor of robotics &...
Meeting at the crossroads between design and technology
The European Converge conference, hosted by solidThinking, will return to the SANAA building in Essen, Germany, on 17th October 2017, in what will be a meeting between innovators in design, engineering and architecture.
The journey towards Industry 4.0
Mitsubishi Electric Europe is one of many companies heading towards digitalisation, and here Hartmut Pütz, President Factory Automation EMEA at Mitsubishi Electric Europe talks about the digital transformation of industry.He focuses on the effects on manufacturing businesses, especially at a production level, and how customers will benefit from innovative Mitsubishi Electric solutions.
Development board deal serves developers and makers
An exclusive partnership between Premier Farnell and MATRIX Labs will see the distributor manufacture and distribute MATRIX Creator to a global network of developers and makers of all skills levels. The MATRIX Creator is a Raspberry Pi add-on that provides multiple functionality and enables faster and more cost-effective development of IoT devices.
Alexa, does my bum look big in this?
Amazon’s ‘Echo Look’ has just been shown to provide a virtual assistant to those frantic women that need help on their daily outfit choices first thingin a morning.The Alexa embedded device which includes a camera for hands-free photos or videos of you posing or twirling, works as a standalone selfie machine so you can see yourself in a full-length view to check every angle of your outfit.
Smart speaker platform offers support for voice assistants
Qualcomm Technologies has introduced at a conference in Shenzhen, a Smart Audio Platform to help manufacturers accelerate the development and commercialisation of smart and networked speakers. The flexible solution offers two Qualcomm SoC options based on APQ8009 and APQ8017, with a range of software configurations that are designed to allow OEMs to create truly optimised smart speakers across various product tiers and categories.
Development kits target voice-enabled speakers
Supplier of voice solutions for IoT products, XMOS, has announced the launch of the XVF3000 family of voice processors, which provide far-field voice capture using arrays of MEMS microphones. With optional support for Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree technology, XMOS claims that the XVF3000 family provides the most flexible and cost effective always-on voice interface in a single device. XMOS also announces the availability of the VocalFusion Speak...
The route to digitalisation: SKF explain
Imagine a world of reliable rotation, well that is what global technology provider,SKF, is trying to achieve. The company’s recently re-envisaged vision and mission is to create ‘a world of reliable rotation’.Engineering Specifier recently attended the company’s technical day based around the idea of digitalisation, where Victoria van Camp, SKF’s CTO and President, Innovation and Business Development, painted a pictu...