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Research into a Virtual Tool to Perform Risk Assessment for Collaborative Applications
July 2017
The Risk Assessment for Collaborative Environments (RACE) project aims to develop a virtual tool to perform risk assessments for collaborative applications. From inputs such as the robot’s program, the operator’s program and a CAD model of the production part and the environment, a simulation is...
The Future and Impact of Autonomous Ride Hailing
June 2017
Ride hailing has become the new standard in how people book a taxi. It’s convenient and fast, you open an app on a phone to summon a car which picks you up within minutes. No money changes hands at the end of the journey, the app takes care of charging the passenger and crediting the driver...
Software Development – A Learning Approach
March 2017
In this post, I’ll be describing my current approach to implementing a major feature into an existing web application. In the software development world, everyone knows that there are many different techniques to implement the same set of features. We describe these methods as ‘design patterns’...
The Lovelace Test or Can Machines Take Us By Surprise?
February 2017
As part of my work in the Data Analytics for Resource Efficiency team and my interest in Machine Learning, I’m interested to know when machines can be considered intelligent. Over the years, the Turing Test has been regarded by many (definitely not by all) as THE definitive test for consciousness...
Industry 4.0 Held to Ransom – The Destructive Combination of IoT and Ransomware
November 2016
The manufacturing industry is moving towards a connected world of Industry 4.0, which is the fourth industrial revolution where cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things and cloud computing bring automation and data driven efficiencies. There are benefits to be reaped through the use of Internet...
