Here comes Jarvis, the artificial intelligence for every home

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After a year of hard work, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed to the world some details of the #artificial intelligence #Jarvis, a personal assistant for the home that the founder of #Facebook had wanted to develop as a "personal challenge". Mark, pleasantly, gave the AI ​​the name of Iron Man's butler, and integrated it into the home automation system of his house. Jarvis does everything, or almost everything: it independently manages lights, temperature, appliances, music from both PCs and mobile devices and much more. Jarvis can be commanded with… Read more

The control unit for energy and clean water, homemade

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At the #Maker Faire in Rome, #Watly was presented, a hi-tech #control unit also connected to the web, which allows you to produce energy and clean water directly at home. Watly is designed primarily to be used in places without services, such as refugee camps, but it can be applied anywhere. The cities of the future, for example, may not be born in very favorable places, and therefore will have to equip themselves technologically to survive. Watly was born because we wanted to free the user from centralized distribution networks, allowing… Read more

Google Wifi will make life easier at home

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Google presented its latest creation to the world, Google Wifi: it is a modular router that can function as a single access point or on a network of multiple connected units. It is a very simple tool, designed for a home network; the system can automatically optimize network parameters, such as channels, to avoid interference. The different access points can cover an entire house, despite walls and various interferences. In this way, the Wifi… Read more

Amazon Prime Now brings the meat home to us

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Amazon has decided to take the leap, and also bring #food directly to its customers' homes. Even in Milan. In fact, through the #Amazon Prime Now app, from today we can buy #meat and have it delivered within an hour or in two-hour windows. Australian Black Angus, scottona, Japanese Kobe, turkey or chicken; there are 30 types of Italian and international meats from which you can choose. The new service is active 7 days a week from 7 am until … Read more

R1, the first home robot

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Everyone talks about nothing other than #R1, the first "family" robot produced by the Italian Institute of Technology (Iit) in Genoa. R1's "father", Giorgio Metta, is convinced of the great potential of his little robot: "The commercial prospects are immense". “R1 Your Personal Humanoid” was created starting from the experience gained from the creation of iCub, the most widespread humanoid research robot in the world. R1 has an Italian design, weighs approximately 50 kilos, has a height varying from 1 meter and 25 to 1 … Read more

Food arrives home with the robot

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The news, now, doesn't surprise us that much: in the next few months it could be a robot who brings us sushi or pizza home. This new home delivery is currently being tested by Just Eat, an international digital marketplace based in London specialized in the delivery of food to users' homes. The company, currently present in 15 countries, has entered into a partnership with Starship Technologies to test the first robots in Great Britain in the coming months. … Read more

Floatwing: the house independent of space and energy

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What do you think of a modular houseboat that provides for its own energy needs? You don't have to go far with your imagination: his name is Floatwing. Designed by the Portuguese agency Friday, this house can generate all the energy it needs for a year in just 6 months. Equipped with a robust photovoltaic system, a wastewater treatment mechanism and other elements, Floatwing is a true concentration of technologies for … Read more

Print a house in less than a day.

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One of the most promising fields of near-future technologies is that of 3D printing. We talked about it in this recent article with reference to food, and now we have the opportunity to admire 3D printers one and a half meters long, capable of building a 700 square meter house in 20 hours. The special construction process called CAD/CAM includes computer assistance for both the design and manufacturing parts. Entire housing units… Read more