Yes, believe it or not, this is a 60-foot robot taking its first step! It was designed after the popular Gundam robot in the series and manga. It is without doubt, the largest robot ever created and is a stunning image to behold.
This huge robot is still under construction in Gundam Factors Yokohama, Japan. In a video, it is seen lifting and lowering its legs preparing for its debut in October 2020, even though there have been delays due to the pandemic.
There are people on cranes circling the robot, tweaking the moving parts in order to complete mechanical testing. Actually, this is a preliminary test with absolutely no weight placed on the legs. It seems to be on its way to becoming completely independent in walking.
Since January, Gundam Factory Yokohama has been working on the robot with the goal of providing an exhibit of this 60-foot, 25-ton robot. According to Popular Mechanic, the robot will have integrated fingers with 25 degrees of freedom, and able to support its massive weight which will add to Japan’s impressive robotic record!
The robot is currently located just outside of Tokyo in the Port of Yokohama where it will remain for a year. It’s considered a technical wonder and everyone is super excited to see it in full operation. Everyone is in expectation to finally get a fully movable robot in action. State Tune and find out what this robot can do!
The remote collaboration between researchers necessitated by the pandemic has accelerated the R&D process across the world, according to Motoo Nishihara, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, NEC Corporation. NEC, a 120-year-old Japanese conglomerate with footprints across the world, has seen technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence evolve to take on the new challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nishihara cited the examples of two products that were developed quickly during the lockdown months. One, a video imaging technology that can look at a crowd and alert if the individuals don’t have the requisite social distance between themselves in places like airports. Then, the facial recognition technology in which NEC is one of the top global players went to the level where it could identify people even with their masks on. “We did this in three to four months,” Nishihara said in a video interview with indianexpress.com.
“Given that 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have any form of identification, multi-modal authentication system using facial and iris recognition could be used to ensure the proper rollout of vaccines and other products,” Nishihara said, adding that NEC does not yet have a product that can be used in Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
Another technology that could become important in future if NEC’s use of AI for.
The remote collaboration between researchers necessitated by the pandemic has accelerated the R&D process across the world, according to Motoo Nishihara, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, NEC Corporation. NEC, a 120-year-old Japanese conglomerate with footprints across the world, has seen technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence evolve to take on the new challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nishihara cited the examples of two products that were developed quickly during the lockdown months. One, a video imaging technology that can look at a crowd and alert if the individuals don’t have the requisite social distance between themselves in places like airports. Then, the facial recognition technology in which NEC is one of the top global players went to the level where it could identify people even with their masks on. “We did this in three to four months,” Nishihara said in a video interview with indianexpress.com.
“Given that 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have any form of identification, multi-modal authentication system using facial and iris recognition could be used to ensure the proper rollout of vaccines and other products,” Nishihara said, adding that NEC does not yet have a product that can be used in Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
Another technology that could become important in future if NEC’s use of AI for
Over the past few months, researchers involved with this AI-powered drug for cancer are now contributing towards the creation of an effective Covid-19 vaccine. Working with the OncoImmunity AS, a Norway-based bioinformatics company which NEC acquired in 2019, its AI Drug Development Division completed a genetic analysis of COVID-19 and published the results in just a month’s time.
Dr. Akihiko Iketani, Head of NEC Laboratories, explained that their fingerprint identification system is already utilised in African countries to see whether a baby was already vaccinated, and If yes, then what kind of vaccination was given. “We strongly believe that a similar kind of solution will be required very soon in India as well for Covid-19 and other types of diseases,” Dr Iketani added.
Nishihara agreed that remote working and touchless processes could become the new normal with the pandemic and the threat that such situations could recur now with a higher frequency. “If we continue this kind of situation, our new society has to have some kind of preparation for the future when remote working and touches systems could become necessary, or even mandatory,” he added.
In India, NEC India’s president and CEO Aalok Kumar chipped in, the company is seeing “very strong requirement, both from the government and the enterprise to go more touchless”. NEC is about to start a pilot project at Varanasi airport to allow passengers touchless and paperless entry and has also got the contract to do the same in the Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada.
“If you can apply something like that in a highly sensitive, highly secured and politically sensitive area like aviation, you can imagine how quickly it will get integrated in the enterprise sector,” Kumar added. He said a lot of the resistance that people used to face in unlocking the budget for digitisation of processes has gone become of the pandemic. “That is unlocking a lot of peripheral IT and infrastructure and foundation investment.”
source- https://indianexpress.com/
While the working of Google’s search engine has improved quite a bit over the years, the Google Search interface has had a very consistent design language on mobile devices for long now. This is similar to the classic Google Search homepage, which has seen only minor changes over the years.
However, the California-based company has now announced in a new blog post that it is bringing in a major revamp for the mobile Google Search platform. This is the UI you see in the Google Search app for Android and iOS. The new Google Search design will apparently focus on simplicity and ease of use.
“We wanted to take a step back to simplify a bit so people could find what they’re looking for faster and more easily,” said Google designer Aileen Cheng, who also referred to the new design as a “breath of fresh air”.
The first priority of the new interface will be to make it simpler than ever, and deliver to users what they are looking for. Providing search results clearly and quickly will now take priority over all else. To achieve this, the Google Search app will now use larger and bolder text, as well as Google’s own font. The font will be familiar to anyone who has used an Android device or the Gmail app.
A lot of shadows through the app’s interface are now removed. This will give the new results page a more flat look while helping in faster loading times. “We decided to create a new edge-to-edge results design and to minimize the use of shadows, making it easier to immediately see what you’re looking for,” said Cheng.
The app will also add spacing between elements, freeing the interface of any clutter, so you can focus on the results you’re looking for first. Google has also suggested that the new interface will implement colours to guide users to important information, without being overwhelming or distracting.
This follows a string of new rounder icons that Google has been using in its other apps lately. Each letter of the Google logo, along with the search bar and magnifying glass icon themselves, will be rounder than before.
The future is, factually speaking, uncertain. We don’t know if we’ll find a cure for cancer, the economic outlook, if we’ll be living in an algorithmic world or if our work cubical mate will soon be replaced by a robot. While futurists can dish out some exciting and downright scary visions for the future of technology
Over the past five years, robotic dogs have gone viral in captivating online videos showing them opening doors, performing acrobatics, hauling trucks and pulling other stunts. In the pandemic era, they’ve been used to promote social distancing and reduce risks to medical staff hospitals
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