In June 2021, the people were astonished seeing Spot - Boston Dynamics’ robot dog dancing with K-pop sensation BTS. Way back in 2008, the first zero-emission car, Tesla, created by entrepreneur Elon Musk, shook the transportation industry.
With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0), more industries are integrating automation and intelligent systems to increase optimisation and production efficiency.
Technically, the integration is challenging as it requires the involvement of components such as advanced computing systems, electrical and electronics devices, sensors and actuators, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), as well as the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).
THE rapid rise in the use of emerging technologies to manage and adapt to the current pandemic for operational efficiency, customer interaction and business sustainability has been simply phenomenal.
An ecosystem of technologies that facilitates interaction and allows for veritable engagement with customers and clients in a seemingly real or physical way is Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
When combined as a hybrid mix of physical reality and digital content, we get Mixed Reality (MR) whereby the user can interact with and among the real world together with digital objects.
The next quantum leap in this ecosystem is Extended Reality (XR) which revolutionises spatial computing.
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IN facing the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers, scientists, medical staff, and IT and data specialists are flooded with terabytes of pandemic and case history data.