Covid-19 nasopharyngeal swabs and vials. Florida became a world epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic recently with 10K+ cases a day for about 10 days. Testing is key to the battle against Covid-19. To get a closer look at how a Covid-19 testing site works, I took an opportunity to work at one Covid-19 Testing site at Ybor as a volunteer. The ...
I have been staying home too much for the holidays. So I looked for something to do. Since I don’t plan to take a trip to see any place, volunteering in a soup kitchen sounds interesting. I have done many different volunteering works before. But volunteering in a soup kitchen would be new. So, I googled “soup kitchen” + volunteer and found ...
Designing a logistic network or system is a complex task. It involves a great deal of understanding of the business, a clear vision of the demand, and a deep comprehension of related technologies. This report focuses on robotics technologies that are useful for logistic systems. Due to the nature of logistics, favorable technologies usually ...
John Leonard (MIT) did polls on driverless cars at the 2018 NSF NRI PI meeting. Here I summarize the poll results. The people participated in the polls are the robotics professors in the U.S. They would be considered as the experts in autonomous driving. Most importantly, most of they don’t have any financial tie with the auto or autonomous ...
I have moderated a roundtable for Digital Enterprise Transformation Assembly, held in Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Miami, FL, on June 21. The event's website is https://event.mill-all.com/digital-enterprise-transformation-8/ About 20 people attended the roundtable titled “How AI Impacts Your Organization.“ Three conclusions were reached: - ...
Yes. Observation of the current trade tension in the world. The US started the trade tension for the following main motivations: Cut trade deficit Cut finance deficit and debt Attract companies back to the U.S. Improve U.S.'s competitiveness in manufacturing. Strategies: Make the domestic economy booming so that US's ...
In 1874, Thomas Alva Edison sold the rights of his early invention Quadruplex telegraph to Western Union for $10,000. Using this fund, he started to develop the idea of a new modern lab facility. After thorough two-year’s preparation, in 1876, he opened his industrial research lab in Menlo Park. It is considered the first industrial research ...
Background: The number one incentive of self-driving technology is reducing accidence and saving life. In 2015, automobile related fatalities were approximately 1.25 million globally. It is equivalent to five fully loaded Boeing 747 crashing every single day. In the U.S., Human error accounts for 94 percent of all traffic accidents. Vehicle ...
National Robotics Initiative 2.0: Ubiquitous Collaborative Robots (NRI-2.0) In NRI PI meeting on November 30th, 2016, Reid Simmons (a new NSF program officer who is most in robotics) gave us a better picture of the newly announced so-called NRI-2.0. The new proposal due day is February 2, 2017. After the meeting, I have better understanding of ...
The following is a list of popular sensors on any autonomous vehicles (AV): 2D camera, range camera, LIDAR, Radar, Sonar, GPS, IMU/compass, odometry. Since autonomous driving requires the vehicle to sense the environment as good and even better than human drivers, multiple sensors are usually used for compensate their capabilities. To ...