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Industry 4.0

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  Industry 4.0  is one of the big  buzzwords  flying around our ear nowadays. We all wonder about what exactly it is!!!Basically it refers to the 4th industrial revolution where we have seen transformative technologies that have changed the industries.  We are now having machines -intelligent Robots connected with smart factories around us. How did we get here? First industrial revolution  had started in 1770s where we moved from hands to machines, from farms to first factories using steam and water power. Implementing these new technologies were not so easy, it took a long time to go ahead with these technologies. More newer things were happened to iron industry, mining and agriculture. They had soon adopted that. Second industrial revolution  had arrived 100 years later I.e., from 1871 to 1914 where electricity was invented. It has given birth to automation, assembly lines. Increasing electrification has given the kickstart to factories for modern pr...

Autonomous Cars- The Future?

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  Imagine yourself calling for your vehicle and the vehicle comes to you by itself, you give it a destination to reach and the car takes you there all by itself! Most of you would have already heard about many companies working on this.   The world is moving towards autonomy and the automotive sector is no exception. A huge amount of money is being invested today to make autonomous vehicles. An autonomous vehicle is one that simply takes certain commands from the operator and operates all by itself. It can go anywhere traditional cargoes and do everything that an experienced human driver does.                                                                    Image credits-  dzone.com The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) has divided the vehicles into five different stages of automation.  ...