These robotic dogs take fetch to a whole new level !!

These robotic dogs take fetch to a whole new level !!

Package delivery may be going to the dogs.In the race to automate the delivery of packages and food in urban areas, most companies have been focusing on wheeled robots. But the German automotive company Continental has another idea. At the consumer Electronics in Las Vegas last week, it showed off a four-legged delivery robot designed to walk packages right to customers’ front doors. In demonstrations at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the battery-powered ANYmal Robot — made by Swiss robotics manufacturer ANYbotics — hopped out of Continental’s CUbE autonomous vehicle, stepped…

SBI moves NCLT to recover Rs 1.2k-cr Reliance Communications loans from Anil Ambani !!

SBI moves NCLT to recover Rs 1.2k-cr Reliance Communications loans from Anil Ambani !!

New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBINSE -3.13 Per cent) moved the insolvency court to recover more than Rs 1,200 crore from Anil Ambani under the personal guarantee clause of the bankruptcy law. It said Ambani had personally guaranteed loans taken by Reliance Communications NSE -5.00  Per cent, currently undergoing insolvency proceedings, which the state-owned lender is trying to recover. SBI moved the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under Section 97(3) of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), seeking its intervention to direct the insolvency board to nominate a resolution professional…

Ninjacart Helps the Needy With Subsidized Fresh Produce !!

Ninjacart, a Bengaluru-based fresh produce supply chain start-up, has provisioned essential fruits and vegetables to orphanages, old-age homes and slum areas, at subsidized rates, in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak-enforced lockdown in India. In order to service the slum areas and orphanages, the company said it is willing to partner with non-governmental organizations and similar institutions across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Pune and Ahmedabad. “Ninjacart has always strived towards changing the way fruits and vegetables reach our plates, along with enhancing the income of farmers, convenience of retailers…

Dutch companies have long term India plans; Holland looking at diversifying supply chains: Envoy ……

New Delhi: Dutch companies in India, some of whom are present here for decades, are planning long-term and Holland is looking to diversify its supply chains, according to Netherlands Ambassador to India Marten van den Berg. “Holland and Dutch companies are planning to diversify their supply chains and India presents an opportunity,” van den Berg told ET in an exclusive interaction amid the global debate on shifting out supply chains from China. Some of Dutch companies including Phillips and Shell are present in India for decades and are planning a…

The Rise Of Data : Data Science , Big Data And Data Analytics For Seamless Buisness Operations !!

Data, a four-letter word is the forerunner of a digital economy. Structured & unstructured data through emails, financial transaction numbers, audio files, web pages, business documents, and social media messages are mined to harness intelligent insights. Data forms the core of AI-powered Machine learning models. You will be surprised to know that humans generate more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, broken to 1.7 megabytes in just a second. Research estimates that over 6 billion smartphone users are looking at some form of data, and over 50 billion…

Use of AI And VR In The Indian Education Sector !!

It’s not hot news that India has an intense lack of teachers at elementary, secondary and even at the more elevated levels of schools. As indicated by the numbers given by the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry of India in 2016, there is a lack of 1 million educators across the nation. In Universities & Colleges, there is an endless deficiency of personnel and the issue of finding qualified individuals to fill this gap has turned out to be much more entangled. In such a situation, in what manner…

Skill India to be expanded to include AI, IoT !!

In a move that will skill and re-skill millions of Indian youth to cater to new age technology and job roles, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said government will now focus on new age skills like Artificial Intelligence (AL) , Internet of Things (IoT) , Machine Learning (ML) to help them get jobs overseas. FM Sitharaman tabled the first union budget of Narendra Modi government. In her speech, the FM said focus under Skill India mission will be to train youth in different languages to prepare them for global jobs. Skills development…

US student’s app offers roadmap to Singapore contact tracing tech !!

Singapore kicked off a global rush to develop a contact tracing apps for the novel covid-19 when the city-state launched an apparently new system in March. But the project actually drew inspiration from a 2014 U.S. high school project that won an international prize but found no backers – until now. It all started when Rohan Suri created an app at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia, to tell his mom to leave home for the bus stop when he was seven minutes away. As the Ebola epidemic ravaged western Africa at…

5G fixed wireless access most desirable 5G use case among telecom operators, Nokia study  !!

NEW DELHI:  5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is the most desirable 5G use case amongst consumers globally, a study by telecom gear maker Nokia said on Wednesday. The study, which was conducted by Park Associates, surveyed 3,000 people in UK, US, and South Korea to examine the consumer understanding and demand for 5G services across 6 different use cases, including autonomous vehicles, video surveillance and immersive technologies. The study further indicated that there is an opportunity for mobile operators to compete with broadband providers by offering FWA to homes and…

AI and the Classroom: Machine Learning in Education !!

For years schooling has been typified by its aspect of the physical grind on the part of both students and their teachers: teachers cull and prepare educational materials, manually grade students’ homework, and provide feedback to the students (and the students’ parents) on their learning progress. They may be burdened with an unmanageable number of students, or a wide gulf of varying student learning levels and capabilities in one classroom. Students, on the other hand, have generally been pushed through a “one-size-fits-all” gauntlet of learning, not personalized to their abilities,…