Bridging the bodily and digital worlds
Have you ever heard of the time period digital twins? Or am I the one one who, since encountering it at a convention plenary, hasn’t stopped listening to about it?
At its core, a digital twin is a digital mannequin of a bodily entity — a machine, a constructing, or perhaps a planet! Such a digital duplicate is turning into a actuality due to developments in compute capability lately.
However what precisely is a digital twin, and why is it thought-about the subsequent frontier in technological innovation?
Let’s discover it on this article!
Let’s think about we had a twin, however as a substitute of being an precise particular person, this twin is a digital model of ourselves. This digital twin would act similar to us however exist on a pc. It may show real-time details about our physique, resembling stress ranges or blood stress, and even predict which signs we’d develop sooner or later.
Whereas the human physique is likely to be tough to think about, let’s take a look at a extra sensible instance. If we had a digital twin of our automobile, we may monitor how the engine is operating, monitoring brake put on for instance, and even get ideas on when to take it in for upkeep. A automobile’s digital twins may obtain this by…
