Topic

Hardware

A collection of 6 issues

4 drawbacks of conventional wiring harnesses and how the industry is making the shift

Here’s a quick look at how today’s wiring harness looks like. Source: https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/white-paper-automotive-wiring-harness Why does a wiring harness look this way? A part of that answer lies in understanding how today’s architecture has evolved over the last 50 years. As the

Microfactory

Typically factories follow a serial architecture. At the beginning of the chain is the raw material. Which is then passed onto a series of stations that perform a specific task on the material. This enables large volumes to be produced and opens up possibilities to optimize material flow and tasks

Digital Twin

A digital twin is a collection of digital data representing a physical object. The concept of a digital twin is born within engineering disciplines. A digital twin is created to optimize and test designs even before they are manufactured. The relation between the digital twin and the actual one doesn&

Robots that can feel

Our skin has many types of neurons that allow us to feel upon touch. They are receptors of different kinds that are triggered by different stimuli but activate the same way upon triggering. Thermoreceptors trigger on change in temperature. Nociceptors trigger on pain. Mechanoreceptors trigger on mechanical stress. These receptors

Bone Conduction Earphones

Ludwig van Beethoven is rumored to have invented this technology. The famous composer who was also deaf used to press one end of the rod on a piano while having the other end of the rod in his mouth. This would transmit the vibrations allowing him to hear. Rumor or

Apple's shift to ARM

ARM is both a company and an instruction set used in CPU’s. ARM and x86 (used by Intel) are sets of instructions that a CPU can understand and execute. This depends on the architecture the actual silicon is built on. Hence, synonymous to CPU architecture. While Intel CPU