Key Upshots:
- Elon Musk’s Self-driving Car Project is parked for now,
- Hydrogen fuels the jet engine,
- Elon Musk company designs a brain chip,
- OpenAi Chatbot to help you find answers to common queries.
Elon Musks’s Self-driving car project stalled:
Perceiving a smooth ride ahead, Apple Inc also jumped on the self-driving bandwagon for its EVs with future in mind, that would be marked with sophistication. But the reality has bitten hard and upset the applecart of Apple Inc.
Now, according to the friends of the media, the company is believed to have postponed the target launch date by a year, as the notion has run out of fuel.
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Internally, they label the car project as Titan but efforts have not found a great breakthrough during the past some months. They somehow acknowledge the tech bugs in the car design which is sans steering wheel or pedals. Tech news updates in India
No pun intended but the company Apple Inc seems to have adjusted (lowered) its ambition and is now working on a car with a steering wheel or a pedal but it will go autonomous on finding highways.
Such info is again credited to friends of the media and who want to remain misty. Tech news updates in India is your right.
Whatever, these changes arise doubt on their capability as Apple’s engineers boasted of distinct innovation, which others in the race found beyond their reach and this was not so much highlighted in the world media as Apple simply wanted to chase quick bucks in the market by catching everyone’s quick attention.
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Such a halo around their excellence seems to have been scarred now.
Initially, Apple Inc vied for the level 5 autonomy in its car, which is considered as the zenith of the self-driving technology. Interestingly, no automaker has ever achieved this benchmark. However, the current planning is ranked below this as the project scope is narrow. We bring forth tech news updates in India.
Experts view this as a shift in goalpost for the Apple car designing crew and major stir has taken place in its executive ranks. Tech news updates in India.
Under the leadership of its current leader Kevin Lynch, the company seeks to nurture stability and a clear vision of objectives which should e achievable (i.e. practical), while certain amount of layoffs have also occurred to balance the strategy.
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The Apple’s technology is centrally controlled by a computer framework that is designed internally and they call it with the codename Denali which is the tallest mountain peak in North America, alongwith a slew of sensors.
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As for its processor, its processor is at par with four of Apple’s most powerful Mac chips glued together and is being developed by the exclusive silicon engineering stalwarts of the company. The chip has completed its advance state ad is ready for production while Apple company may reduce its strength in the car to bring the costs down before launching the actual movable product.
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To manage automated tasks, there is placed on-board computer and the approach is same as found in other brands, like Tesla. But here, Apple tends to drive away from Tesla by bringing together Lidar and radar sensors with a proficient play of cameras too. Tech news updates in India.
The engineers pull up such an assortment for a variety of reasons, i.e. to identify the neighbourhood, to judge driving lanes and to measure the distance from other objects and people moving and walking along the road.
Tesla has installed cameras for his specific purpose while Waymo and other carmakers count upon a mix of such techniques. Tech news updates in India.
Other than the on-boar hardware, a cloud-based component is also tucked inside the system that is meant for artificial intelligence processing. Tech news updates in India.
Finally, keeping the hosting factor in mind, Apple’s bet is on Amazon web services which makes the iPhone maker shed $125 million every ear. But such is a small share of total of$125 billion that the company dishes out on this project annually.
Let’s see dear readers ho far Apple could zoom with its car before it changes gear. Tech news updates in India.
Soon You May Have A Chip In Your Brain:
Elon Musk caught everyone by surprise when he informed the world media about the works his company does towards developing a wireless chip to be tucked inside our homo sapiens’ brain.
Mr Musk’s company Neuralink is steadfast towards this target. In the coming months, the product would be sampled in clinics.
With the disabled patients, the chip will be a great help as they would be able to move and talk while Mr Musk claims for vision too. Tech news updates in India are right here.
The company is busy doing tests on animals and looks for approval from US Food and Drug Administration before indulging in clinical trials on humas. We break tech news updates in India.
Mr Musk confirmed, “we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into human”. Tech news updates in India.
The AI technology has been a dominant constituent of emerging innovation. OpenAI registered its latest effort, the ChatGPT chatbot and it was made accessible to public for testing as on November 30. Tech news updates in India.
As is widely known, a chatbot is a device with heavy congestion of programs inside and this is used for humanly discourse. Tech news updates in India.
Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAi and is currently its CEO, claims that within a week of its release, more than a million people tried their hands on its talk.
The company declares that the chatbot model can process dialogue, answer to queries, acknowledge errors, check incorrect parameters and can also decline uncommon inputs. Tech news updates in India.
Productivity Doubled As A Result Of Digital Boost:
In Thane city which lies in the Indian state of Maharashtra, there is a decades old factory manufacturing circuit protection device. Just five years back, Siemens reset this factory and the conventional methodology has been rewired on ultra-modern digital lines.
As a result, where it earlier produced 80 variants on three working lines, now one production line produces 180 variants. Tech news updates in India.
Likewise, while earlier each unit consumed 21 seconds to finish one product but now, they rustle out one in just 9 seconds in perfect shape and size. Tech news updates in India.
Then, in the older factory, there were 13 quality checks done but the digital version helps us in having 52 checks. Tech news updates in India.
As a more pleasant output, space requirement and capital input has also come own heavily but opposite to this, output has soared substantially and quality upgrade has been there too.
Sunil Mathur, who gets a seat of CEO and MD at Siemens India encourages SMBs to take dive into such digital pool. Tech news updates in India.
He says, ”It also opens up the export market for you”.
No doubt dear readers that we are breathing in the era of industry 4.0 where we witness products interacting with the machines. Such is the premium IT that manages all the key processes.
Now Peter Koerta, he is CTO and also looks after the strategy at Siemens, labels technology as the productivity booster. Tech news updates in India.
He opines, “In plants that are not digitalized, your cost may decrease 3-4% per year but with digitalized ones, they drop 6-7%. And that’s a big difference”.
With basic digitalization, we can get all the machinery connected and this helps in predictive maintenance but hen we merge retail shop data with simulation tech concepts, we get hold of digital twins and this is what the real game changer is.
Clearly, once we are able to simulate the stream of goods and individuals, we get the real picture of its behaviour in the real circumstance and likewise, the simulation model can be fed with data from the real world.
Such type of digital twin unlocks a wide array of pleasant possibilities. Mr Koerta urges us to imagine a case when the world is hit with a semiconductor scarcity and we fail to get a chip that will best fit into our product.
If one relies on traditional mode of manufacturing, whole production process will stop and we would have to opt for a product version without a semiconductor. But again, this would call for a period of 4-5 weeks to settle things.
Mr koerta discusses, “But if you have digital twin, you can run the simulation, you can see what steps are needed to produce the lower version and almost overnight you can implement these”.
Mr Mathur heaps a much significance to digital twin and that it makes it easier to redesign factories on modern digital lines. Tech news updates in India.
He shares, “There will be, say, automotive manufacturers who want to set up plants all over the world. They don’t have to reinvent the wheel with every plant. They can connect them all and they can have a single large digital twin, which saves them a lot of learning time. And if they want to make any improvement, they can test it online, before they do it on the ground. And then replicate that to all the plants around the world.”
Technologies have evolved over the years and now we are empowered for Multiphysics simulations. This is a bubble where we effortlessly simulate distinct aspects of a physical entity or systems and to bring about an interlinked interaction out there.
Mr Koerta points out that we can easily simulate the body structure of a car, we can easily carry out simulation of the acoustics of door sound when we throw it shut and then the air flows, thermal pressure, fluid aspects.
Finally, easier simulation of such aspects can also be carried out. The similar ecosystem can also be developed for a factory set-up to innovate better version of digital twins. Tech news updates in India.
About Digitalization in India, Mr koerta says, “India leads digitalization at Siemens. We have 6,000 software engineers in India that are working across almost every project at Siemens – from power monitors in energy to automation simulations. Indian engineers are now also defining the work packages. We spend about 6 billion euro in R&D on an annual basis, half of that is digital. So, out of the 42,000engineers we have, about 24,000 are software engineers, and a fourth of that is in India.
Mr Sunil Mathur rules out sustainability without digitalization, as he records, ”There’s no decarbonization, nor sustainability without digitalization. If you’re not digitalized, you will never know, for example, how much CO2 a smartphone creates over its lifetime. In production, you need to know about everything that goes inside – glass, microprocessor, plastics- and everybody has to collect the data and not just you yourself on your line of chai, but also along the value chain. Doing this manually is just impossible.
Aircraft Engine That Runs On Hydrogen:
Britain’s Rolls Royce recently rushed to media to proclaim the successful test of an aircraft engine on hydrogen. Such is a major boost as gas would now be used to decarbonize the air travels. In the declaration, the British company said that the test was done on Rolls Royce AE2100 A, which is a regional aircraft engine and the green hydrogen fueled it which was sourced from the wind and the tidal power. Tech news updates in India.
Actually, the duo, the Rolls Royce and its testing partner easyJet, want to emphasize that hydrogen can easily be used as a power supply for civil engines. Trust us for tech news updates in India.
They have also established high claims that prolonged flight tests are scheduled as they plan a second round of tests. Tech news updates in India are right here.
Well friends, if successful, such would be a major step forward in the field of civil aviation.
