Previously we answered the question “what is blockchain?” and discussed the use of blockchain in edge computing. But there are many more applications of the…
Blockchain Part I: What Is Blockchain?
Blockchain has come into the public eye through Bitcoin – a peer-to-peer transaction of electronic money that allows online payments to be sent between parties…
Social Robots Aid Interaction
Social robots can perform the same tasks as other AI helpers – remind you of your schedule, report the news or the weather and play…
The Air Force’s AI Fleet of the Future
Unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), also known as drones, have been used in military operations for decades. Through remote control, they have been launched in…
The Queen Bee of IoT
The food chain relies on honeybees as crucial pollinators. Disease, pollution and global warming are threats to bee populations, but steps are being taken to…
Virtual Reality in the Time of COVID-19
With the social restrictions of COVID-19 came the societal need to virtually connect or escape the world. Through virtual reality (VR), a person can sit…
ROS 2 for Industrial Applications
Started in 2007, the Robotic Operating System (ROS) is an open-source, collaborative framework of software libraries and tools that assist in building robot applications. ROS…
Accelerating Computer Vision with VPUs
Sight is a sense humans often take for granted. We can identify faces and objects in a photograph with little thought. Teaching a machine to…
The What and Why of RFID
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio waves to read data encoded on RFID tags or smart labels. This works similarly to barcode…