Innovation

If a machine develops a fault, the negative repercussions for a company in terms of both service and finances can be enormous. This is why more and more companies are opting for predictive maintenance, a series of actions and techniques that are applied with the aim of anticipating errors. Below, we explain in detail what it consists of and what its main advantages are.

The company which has won the Iberdrola birdlife protection Challenge, Energiot, uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to monitor public service networks so they do not need to be maintained. Their solution to the problem was to create an autonomous predator simulator that would scare the birds away, allowing them to avoid collisions. Find out more about them.

Iberdrola selects Automa as the winner of the challenge to find innovative solutions to reduce non-technical losses in the distribution network. A challenge launched in November 2021 through the international PERSEO Start-up Programme in the framework of the Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub.

Bioinformatics is helping to defeat the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19. To understand how, it is useful to know a little more about this discipline, which is responsible for processing data from the field of biology by applying computer science. In other words, just as linguists study the patterns of language to preserve them, bioinformaticians study the patterns of DNA sequences and proteins to protect our health.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, recently announed that his company would start developing androids in 2022 with the intention of them taking over the dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks currently performed by humans. Although some have questioned the announcement, the truth is that other companies, such as Honda and Toyota, among others, have been working on this type of machine for years which will sooner or later become an everyday part of life.

On 10 September 2024, a Space X rocket took off from Florida, in the US, carrying billionaire Jared Isaacman into space. A few years earlier, on 20 July 2021, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, took off into space on board the New Shepard. Just days earlier, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, achieved the milestone that is paving the way for space tourism, albeit only for multimillionaires. Let's travel into the past to learn about history's earliest examples of space tourism, and then look to the future to glimpse what might be on the horizon for this booming industry.