The positive influence of scientific and technological innovation on life

The future is coming! New technologies can affect these aspects of human life. ...

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With the continuous innovation and progress of science and technology, subversive technologies emerge one after another all over the world, especially the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. Science and technology have penetrated into all aspects of human life, affecting people's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The future life must be full of infinite possibilities.

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Intelligent driving cars and flying taxis

Under the change of technology wave, the mode of travel must be subverted first.

In order to improve traffic congestion and air pollution, Oiio, an American architectural studio, boldly designed an AI smart driving car named Oto.

Its shape resembles a big transparent bubble, which consists of engine room and engine. Each transparent bubble can be used by four people at the same time.

Different transport bases can be equipped in different scenes. In addition to normal driving, it can also carry people "flying over the eaves", which is as cool as taking an elevator.

Oto is equipped with a fully intelligent system, which is centrally controlled and managed by artificial intelligence system (AI) after going on the road, but it also allows passengers to fine-tune various functions of the car according to their personal needs.

Won the top five in the 20 17 design and developer challenge hosted by Microsoft.

Kitty Hawk, another American company, developed Cora, the world's first unmanned flying taxi, and completed the public test flight in Canterbury, New Zealand in March this year. It was invested by Larry Page, co-founder of Google and CEO of Alphabet.

The company is led by sebastian thrun, former CEO of Google X Lab. Cora is powered by electricity and equipped with automatic flight software. Its fuselage is equipped with 12 rotor, which generates vertical takeoff and landing and forward thrust, and can be lifted without runway.

When Kola flies from 150 m to 9 10 m, a single propeller can make the body reach 180km/h, and the voyage is about 100 km.

At present, Uber, Lilium, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and other big companies have invested in the development of flying taxis.

It is expected that flying taxis will be put into operation in the next ten years. Once flying taxis are popularized, it will completely change people's short-distance travel mode.

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Indoor vertical farm

Secondly, food will be subverted under the impetus of technology.

German startup Infarm is developing an "indoor vertical farm" system. They want to create a mini-farm ecology and completely change the way people buy food:

By then, what you buy in the supermarket will not be packaged vegetables shipped from all over the world, but the freshest vegetables will be picked directly through the container of "indoor vertical farm".

In order to meet the differentiated needs of different kinds of vegetables, Infarm has specially made a set of algorithm system to provide nutrients for plants through the irrigation nutrition system controlled by the Internet.

In this way, the vegetables planted in the vertical farm system are not limited by seasonal changes, and no chemical reagents are added in the whole process, so they are pure natural and pollution-free fresh vegetables.

Osnat Michaeli, one of the founders of Infarm, said: "At present, the whole food industry is turning its attention to high technology, hoping to solve the problem of inefficient supply chain and reduce waste."

I believe that in the near future, we can also buy fresh vegetables from the supermarket farm.

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Remote charging and tracking suitcase

Of course, compared with transportation and food, smart devices are the most subverted in our lives.

Although the wireless charging technology is still in the contact stage between the equipment and the charger, Energous, an American wireless charging technology company, has invented a long-distance RF wireless charging technology-WattUp.

In the near future, you only need to install a wireless power transmitter in the room, and all devices in the room, including smart phones, tablets and wearable smart devices, can be charged at the same time anytime and anywhere.

Moreover, users can also set the priority and time of charging by commanding WattUp, for example, charging the device only when the power of the device is lower than 5%, or manually controlling the charging of the device through supported applications.

Compared with the traditional wireless charging technology, Energous WattUp technology can provide more diverse wireless charging experiences.

At the CES exhibition in 20 18, a smart suitcase named 90FUN Puppy 1 of Xiaomi eco-chain enterprise Runmi Technology was on fire.

90FUN Puppy 1 has built-in specially customized follow-up chip of Segway, and adopts UWB precise military radio positioning technology, which can not only directly control the travel of the suitcase, but also set the automatic follow-up mode to realize one-click calling of the suitcase within 20m.

In addition, it is equipped with various auxiliary driving modes, such as electric assist, slope assist, deceleration and parking brake. The maximum climbing angle can reach 30, and it can drive continuously 15KM.

It is reported that 90FUN Puppy 1 is the world's first two-wheel drive self-balancing intelligent follow-up suitcase, which is expected to be officially mass-produced in the second half of this year.

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Intelligent warehouse robot

Today, everyone has been immersed in buy buy, and the orders of major e-commerce platforms are increasing day by day.

In order to solve the sorting and transportation of mass goods, Locus Robotics of the United States independently developed Locus Bots, a logistics warehouse robot.

Locus Bots looks more unique than ordinary warehouse robots, just like a shopping cart with a display screen and a code scanner.

Its normal running speed is about 2 meters per second, and it can run for 10 hour per charge. It can also automatically avoid people and obstacles, help workers transport goods quickly, and greatly improve work efficiency.

Locus moves the picking box around the shelf, and the staff puts the scanned goods into the box, and the box will automatically move to the required position according to the scanned code information.

At present, Amazon, JD.COM, Tmall and other large e-commerce platforms have successively developed their own intelligent logistics warehouses. In addition to warehouse robots, they also make all logistics processes rational, integrated and intelligent.

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Of course, the above imagination may come true soon, and I believe that in the near future, human life will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes under the impetus of science and technology.

Perhaps, with the help of VR and AR in the future, humans can communicate remotely at home through 3D holographic virtual technology:

Satisfy buy buy's shopping desire;

Even with the rapid development of medical technology, cancer may be cured;

With the approval of cryonics technology, "resurrection" becomes possible, or human beings transfer consciousness to new life forms and realize "eternal life" in a sense:

It is no exaggeration to say that with the development of science and technology, the changes in the world will be unimaginable to mankind!

Some references: Krypton Thinking, Tencent Digital, TechCrunch Chinese Version, Global Immigration, Mysterious Earth, Pixel Technology, Tencent Auto.