National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) addresses the ever increasing technological requirements of the society, and takes into account the international trends and road maps of leading countries for the next generation technologies. A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. Embedded computers monitor and control physical processes, usually with feedback loops, where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. As an intellectual challenge, CPS is about the intersection, not the union, of the physical and the cyber. It combines engineering models and methods from…

Radiology has participated in the recent trend towards computerized management in the health service and has responded to the demand for cost efficient and rapid communication between departments of radiology and their users. Distal imaging acquisition has become the standard for modern equipment used in ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography and radionuclide radiology. All types of diagnostic images can now be acquired as distal signals. Digital imaging and development in computer technology and telecommunication mean that the filmless radiology department is technically feasible. Computed Tomography: Faster image acquisition…

Blockchain has been the buzzword for quite some time now. The aura surrounding the ‘bitcoins,’ gave its underlying technology ‘blockchain’ an unprecedented limelight. While bitcoins legality and future in India is still in doldrums, blockchain has the capacity to disrupt the ever stressed agrarian sector. What is Blockchain? In technical terms, blockchain is defined as a distributed and decentralized ledger. Unlike traditional systems, where transactions are stored in physical ledger or in a single database; blockchain felicitates every member to store transaction in a decentralized data log maintained on the…

Robotics is transforming the world economy, now India has a chance to stand as a role model. Or, else India will become irrelevant. How will the Indian government and business leaders make a change in Indian economy? Indian industries have a new obstacle in their way – robots. Thankfully, research foundations and big MNC are already conscious of innovations ranging from nanotechnology and genomics to materials science and energy. However, robotics is one of the areas where India lacks and this could cause the most instant disturbance. Developed countries like…