Innovation

Light Detection and Ranging, or LiDAR for short, is one of the imaging technologies that many robotics companies are incorporating into their sensor packages. The approach, which is currently attracting a lot of interest and funding from self-driving car companies, works similarly to radar, but instead of sending out broad radio waves and looking for reflections, it uses short laser pulses.   Traditional time-of-flight LiDAR, on the other hand, has a number of flaws that make it unsuitable for many 3D vision applications. Other LiDAR systems or even ambient sunshine…

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HSE) are collaborating with NASA scientists to create an artificial intelligence system for checking astronaut gloves. Space is a harsh environment, and equipment failures can have disastrous consequences. Gloves are especially vulnerable to wear and tear because they’re used for so many things, including repairing and installing new equipment. Currently, astronauts will send photos of their gloves back to Earth, where NASA analysts will evaluate them manually. “This process gets the job done with the ISS’s low orbit distance of about 250 miles from Earth,…

A professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has developed a technique for regenerating bones by mixing two chemicals into a paste and injecting it into the affected area. The bioactive chemicals will be carried by the ceramic-based mixture, which will aid in bone regrowth. Ashok Kumar, a professor in the department of biosciences and bioengineering, who made the technology, said, “This will make an artificial bone like a natural one. From India’s point of view, it can be called a revolution in medical science.” An agreement to…

We can capture moments in the world around us in the form of photographs thanks to the technology we use in our daily lives. However, the method can only produce a 2D representation of the 3D world we observe. Scientists have been attempting to generate 3D instances from these 2D images, and Nvidia may have developed game-changing technology in this regard. The new capability, dubbed Instant NeRF, was unveiled at Nvidia GTC, a global conference for AI developers. The technology is a step forward from NeRF, or neural radiance field,…

The Indian government is seen to be working on a super app for farmers in the country, which would combine various important elements such as weather and market information, advisories for different zones, government initiatives, and more. This super app, according to the Economic Times, will merge many apps produced by several government departments under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. AgriMarket is one of these apps, which allows farmers to get the market price of commodities within 50 kilometres of their current location. Agriculture officers can use the…