Tag Archives: Commercial and Industrial

Cloud Computing’s Silver Lining For Smartphones: Fog Computing

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Cloud Computing's Silver Lining For Smartphones: Fog ComputingComputer storage is no longer just an issue at your place of business or in your home office. Today's mobile society requires our smartphones to carry just as many gigs (if not more) than what our desktops were supplied with just few short years ago. If you're still wasting your mobile phone's precious in-built storage, you're either purchasing too many seldom-used apps or. . .

Cisco Leads The Charge In The Application Economy

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Cisco Leads The Charge In The Application EconomyIt's hard to believe that mobile devices while a couple of decades in the making didn't achieve mass adoption until Apple launched their first iPhone in 2007. With it's customer-pleasing multi-touch interface and application distribution platforms, a number of competing mobile operating systems joined the fray quickly to meet the burgeoning demand. Smarphones, tablet computers and other hand-held devices ushered in tech advancement . . .

Food Spoilage: Chinese Research Team Develops New Smart Tag

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World Food Spoilage InfographicIs there a way to tell if food has gone bad without experiencing that unpleasant attack on the nostrils by opening the container?  Read all about the innovative Chinese research team that devised a smart tag to eliminate all that and possibly revolutionize the food and beverage industry.

Toyota Is Securing Efficiency By Replacing Robots With Humans

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Toyota Embraces Reverse Automation And Replaces Robots With HumansNo, that's not a typo. While many automotive manufacturers are embracing robots in the workplace, Toyota is apparently taking the opposite approach: they're actually reducing the number of robots used in the production line. Even stranger, they're actually becoming more efficient as a result.

Immersive Virtual Robotics Will Soon Allow Us To Directly Control Robotic Behemoths

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Johns Hopkins Robotics Laboratory Developers VR Controls For RobotsTurns out, the answer to the myriad safety concerns surrounding massive industrial robots is virtual reality. Johns Hopkins Computational and Interactove Robotics Lab has developed an Immersive Virtual Robotics Environment that allows workers to directly interact with and control robots.

Good Design International Award: Celebrating Modern Design

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Ready to share the best designs in the world?Enter its 64th year, the Good Design International Award continues to celebrate the latest and greatest innovative products and industrial goods from all over the world. With dozens of categories available to showcase your ingenuity, there’s surely a special place for your bright ideas to this classic Chicago-based contest!

Georgia Tech’s Using Human Arms To Make Robots More Accurate

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Georgia Tech's Using Human Arm Sensors For Safer RobotsOne of the biggest driving forces in robotics innovation is the manufacturing industry. See, the machinery used to construct cars could easily tear a human apart of miscalibrated. The latest development comes from the Georgia Institute of Technology: a control system developed using the human arm.

Robots Can Probably Manage Your Finances Better Than You Can

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Entrepreneurs Believe Robots Are The Future Of Financial ManagementAccording to entrepreneur Mike Sha, in the near future we'll be handing all our money over to robots. Sort of - the Bay Area entrepreneur's startup, SigFig, has developed a set of algorithms designed to manage a user's financial portfolio automatically. He's not the only one with the idea, either.