The importance of the growing smart home market is drawing in car manufacturers and their development strategies. Mercedes, BMW, Ford and others are all bringing Amazon Alexa and other smart home voice control platforms into their connected cars. But, voice control is just the start. According to ABI Research, by 2022, more than 500 million…
A new generation of swarming robots which can independently learn and evolve new behaviours in the wild is one step closer, thanks to research from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE). The team used artificial evolution to enable the robots to automatically learn swarm behaviours which are understandable to humans.…
Vehicle manufacturers are investing heavily in autonomy and the communications infrastructure required to make autonomous vehicles work, without compromising on user safety or cyberdata safety. Here, we take a look at the steps General Motors and Honda have taken with Cybersecurity, whilst analysing the rigorous testing autonomous vehicles go through to be declared road worthy.…
source:engineerlive.com If manual inspection of two-dimensional components on a measuring machine, optical profile projector or measuring microscope is too time consuming or not sufficiently precise, the new Quadra-Chek 2000 from Heidenhain could help. Equipped with embedded evaluation software and a high resolution, 7-inch, hardened colour touchscreen, the unit has a built-in power supply, rugged aluminium housing and…