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0 1 Vande Bharat Rashmi Express Ruston Cars Blockchain 5G Chatbot ISRO PSLV- PWA C43 Shakati Digital ebee SQ Transformation Battista Microsoft USB 4 Hololens 2 4D PRinters Flexiable Project Display Session 2 Vande Bharat Express, also known as Train 18, is an Indian semi-high speed intercity electric multiple unit. It was designed and built by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai under the Indian government's Make in India initiative over a span of 18 months. The unit cost of the first rake was given as ₹100 crore (US$14 million), though the unit cost is expected to go down with subsequent production. At the original price, it is estimated to be 40% less costly than a similar train imported from Europe. The train was launched on 15 February 2019, by which date a second unit will have been produced and readied for service. The service was named 'Vande Bharat Express' on 27 January 2019. 3 Train 18's exterior appearance consists of aerodynamic narrowing at each ends of the train. It has a driver coach at each end of the train, allowing for faster turnaround at each end of the line. The train has 16 passenger cars, with a seating capacity of 1,128 passengers. Two of the center compartments are first class compartments that seat 52 each, with the rest being coach compartments seating 78 each. The train's seats, braking system, doors, and transformers are the only elements of the train to be outsourced, with plans to make them domestically on the production of the next unit. Train 18 employs a regenerative braking system. Another unit is planned for production over the next year, along with four more units in the following year, for a total of six The Railway Board has requested that ICF complete two of the new units by May 2019. Two of those units will incorporate sleeper cars into the layout. Indian Railways and ICF are also planning the development of Train 20, another semi-high speed train that will replace the Rajdhani Express. The line is supposed to be unveiled in 2020. 4 The train set has been flagged off for an inaugural run by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on 15 February 2019,with its commercial run starting from 17 February 2019 onwards. The train broke down on its first trip on 16 February, with officials citing brake failure secondary to striking cattle as the cause.It will be running on the Delhi-Varanasi route, via Kanpur and Prayagraj, connecting the Prime minister's Lok Sabha seat to the Capital city, reducing travel time along the route by 15 percent.The train's regenerative brakes are also expected to allow a 30% savings in electricity costs as compared to its predecessor. At an operating speed of 160 kilometres per hour (99 mph), it will outpace the Shatabdi Express by 30 kilometres per hour (19 mph).Although the trainset has been tested for speeds up to 180 kph, operational speed has been capped at 130 kph as an internal report by Indian Railways indicated that just 0.3% of the company's track is capable of supporting speeds of that magnitude.Every other car on the train is motorised.[13The 8 hour journey from New Delhi to Varanasi station has the base fare of ₹1,239.00 and covers the total distance of about 775 kilometers. 5 Refer::NDTV Ranchi man Ranjit Srivastava,38, has developed Indian version of „Sophia,‟ a social humanoid robot developed by a Hong Kong based company, named Rashmi which can speak Hindi, Bhojpuri and Marathi along with English. The developer claimed it as world‟s first Hindi speaking realistic humanoid robot and India‟s first lip-synching robot. Rashmi uses linguistic interpretation (LI), artificial intelligence (AI), visual data and facial recognition systems. “Rashmi functions under a specially designed software and linguistic interpretation system developed by me. The LI programme analyses the feeling of the conversation while AI program analyses the conversation to extract the response from the device,” Srivastava said. Experts termed it an incredible achievement. “I have not heard of any Hindi speaking robot in India. Though I have not seen the robot, it is incredible if it was developed,” said Dr Somnath Chattopadhyaya, associate professor of IIT-Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, who is also the dean of innovation and incubation. 6 A master of business administration (MBA), Srivastava, who has expertise in software development of more than 15 years, has developed the speaking robot in two years at a meager cost of Rs 50,000. “It will take one month more to give it complete shape of a human. Head and body have been developed and they are functioning properly. Process is on to add hands and legs to it,” Srivastava said.Proprietor of Lotus Communication, a Ranchi based software company, Srivastava, said the robot has many features besides the lip-syncing. It gives facial, eye, lips, and eyebrow expressions and it can move its neck. “Humanoid robot is the need of future generation. It can work as bank receptionist, helper, friend of lonely people and others,” he claimed. Ask the robot anything, it will reply in the same manner. If the robot is told you are ugly, it replies…go to hell. Say you are beautiful, it will reply thank you. 7 When asked about her favourite actor, it replied Shahrukh Khan. “It can talk for hours with a person and it recognizes the person after few meetings due to cameras fitted in its eyes,” Srivastava said.Who inspired Srivastava to take up the speaking robot I thought it could be developed and challenge, he said it was decided to develop a Hindi speaking Sophia. “When I saw it and robot in July 2016,” said its functions, Srivastava, who has developed many software for different departments of the state government. Many of his software received national recognition. Ranjit claims to have developed e- Nibandhan portal for registration department, which received Scotch award, e-library for information and public relation department, tourism portal for tourism department, which won national tourism award. 8 Refer:: Hindustan Times The 1923 Ruston B2 that had been parked for decades at the plant site of the gas turbine manufacturer in Lincoln was basically a wreck. The vintage vehicle was missing important parts, which made it impossible to restore. These parts, however, have now been reproduced by Siemens‟ Materials Solutions subsidiary using 3D printing technology. The project that led to these reproductions demonstrates the possibilities offered by additive manufacturing of spare parts and components. But in 2003, restoration efforts were given new hope when Siemens acquired Ruston with a view to expanding its portfolio to include small gas turbines – a field in which Ruston has been a leader in Europe since the 1960s. Gas turbines are still manufactured in Lincoln today, and when Siemens acquired Ruston, it also took possession of the two vintage vehicles. Still, nothing could be found to replace Tonic‟s steering housing or its imp, so restoration plans were put on hold again, until, in 2016, Siemens acquired Materials Solutions. The Worcester (UK)-based company specializes in additive manufacturing and produces gas turbine parts for Siemens, as well as components for the aerospace industry – and even for automotive racing teams. Materials Solutions General Manager Phil Hatherley heard about the vintage cars. “We offered to reproduce the steering housing and the imp using metal and 3D printing technology,” he explain 10 These days, we‟d say they were over- Printing with Stainless Steel engineered. Ruston & Hornsby was also Hatherley‟s vision has been fulfilled. The unable to set up an efficient mass steering housing has been reproduced, and the production system, which means the mischievous Lincoln imp once again sits atop manual work needed to produce the cars Tonic‟s radiator grille. It took five days just to made them very expensive. Only 1,500 print the steering housing, as the component, people purchased a vehicle, and many of which weighs several kilograms, was printed them were officials at embassies in the UK. layer by layer using type 316 stainless steel. In Only a few models remain in existence this process, a laser melts metal powder – and today, including two that are nicknamed Gin for a fraction of a second the metal liquefies and Tonic. These cars have stood on the and bonds with the metal layer below. Each Ruston factory grounds in Lincoln since the layer is only 20 micrometers thick. It also took 1960s. several days to prepare for the printing The Case of the Missing Imp process. First of all, since there were no Unlike Gin, Tonic – which was built in 1923 design drawings, the housing had to be and exported to Australia – was a true scanned from all sides using cameras, wreck. Geoffrey de Freitas, a British MP although the scanning itself only took a few from 1950–1961, came across the car while minutes. However, before the component could Down Under. He brought it back to England be scanned, broken-off pieces had to be in the 1960s and gave it to Ruston. The plan reassembled. Missing areas were then filled was to have company apprentices restore into the 3D model on a computer using it. However, important parts had been Siemens NX CAD software. Engineers also damaged or were missing. The steering scanned Gin‟s imp to recreate the imp for housing was broken, for example – and of Tonic. all things, the imp on top of the radiator This reverse engineering procedure is not only grille was gone. By that time, the design used to restore vintage cars; it‟s also suitable drawings had all disappeared, making it for industrial sectors that experience prohibitively expensive to produce bottlenecks in the supply of spare parts for old individual components by casting.

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