Types of proprioceptive sensors for mobile robots
For safe navigation, a mobile robot must acquire information about its state and environment. This is done by doing measurements with devices called sensors....
Key challenges in the data preparation process
Data preparation is a process of manipulating and organizing raw data before analysis. It is typically an iterative process of manipulating raw, unstructured, and...
Using wearables to detect physical fatigue in the workplace
Monitoring and detecting fatigue in the work environment is essential to improve worker safety in today’s world, where the concepts of a “job” or...
Document automation – The key to digital transformation
Documents preserve data, knowledge, and information required for effective business operations that benefit stakeholders (Glushko & McGrath 2008). However, the manual process of creating...
How robots conquer business processes in back offices
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) — the automation of complex processes that replaces humans through the implementation of advanced software — is transforming the future...
Cloud Confidentiality – Threats and defense strategies
Data sent to the cloud are not stored in a single cloud storage server. It is replicated in different cloud data centers in different...
Office automation – How does it transform work?
Automation refers to a wide variety of technologies that eliminate or minimize the need for human intervention in operations. This covers business process automation...
Data preparation steps – Why do they matter?
Raw data, which are accumulated from various sources in the form of logs, sensor output, government data, medical research data, climate data, geospatial data,...
Possible future applications of swarm robots
Swarm robotics studies creating communities of straightforward, autonomous robots that can work together and coordinate like natural swarms. They can organize themselves and function...
Wearables in the workplace – Key barriers to the adoption
Smartwatches and fitness trackers are two examples of wearable sensors growing in popularity worldwide. They have been used to monitor clinical and rehabilitation procedures,...
Zero trust architecture: 4 reasons why you need it
The Zero Trust approach to cloud and mobile security holds that no user or application should be trusted by default. The least-privileged access principle,...
Autonomous trucks: Benefits for the trucking industry
Worth $9.6 trillion in 2018, according to Armstrong & Associates, the global logistics market currently represents approximately 12% of the world’s GDP. The trucking...
