At every IMTS, manufacturers from around the globe announce new products and machinery for the machine-tool industry (and others that come to borrow the most adaptable technology). This year’s IMTS 2016 is no different.
The show continues for two more days yet, but this is my last day reporting from Chicago before heading out. Here are some of the coolest technologies from what I saw at McCormick Place this year.
This autonomous car was pretty cool
IMTS show organizers let Local Motors offer rides in their Olli — the first self-driving electric vehicle equipped with IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) technology.
Built by Local Motors, Olli is taking a dozen riders at a time through the C Hall of the North Building. That’s a pretty good deal for attendees with barkin’ dogs after walking those hard concrete floors of McCormick all day.
Limited to about 5 mph for show purposes — but capable of 25 mph — Olli uses the cloud-based cognitive computing capability of IBM Watson to analyze and learn from high volumes data produced by more than 30 sensors embedded in the vehicle, including GPS and cameras — as well as Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging or LIDAR.
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