A report on recent ICT innovations

At the next meeting of the scientific seminar of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS the report on modern ICT innovations was listened. The report was presented by Orkhan Mansimzade. He informed about Mini Cheetah,  the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged powerpack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right-side up or upside down. The robot can also trot over uneven terrain about twice as fast as an average person’s walking speed.

He provided information on “SameDay Bot”. American delivery company FedEx has developed an autonomous robotic delivery device to help retailers distribute same-day orders to their customers. Designed to satisfy the ever-growing expectations of consumers, the SameDay Bot allows retailers to accept orders from nearby customers and send them by robot directly to the buyer's home or office that same day, he noted. Accompanied by machine-learning algorithms, these safety features work to keep the robot away from obstacles, avoiding any collisions by plotting a safe path and ensuring the bot follows the rules of the road.

O. Mansimzade also informed about infrared-equipped drones better at spotting koalas. The new surveying technique involves flying drones equipped with infrared cameras over bushland areas containing koalas.  The research team developed an algorithm that identifies the unique heat signature emitted by the fuzzy marsupials.  Whereas humans are able to spot 70 percent of koalas in a given area, drone surveys achieved an 86 percent spot rate. 

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