Central to modern manufacturing is listening to machines. And machines, naturally, do not speak. So we employ some trickery to understand them—vibration analysis, studying performance data, computer vision, etc.Now, one of man’s earliest industrial assets—the horse—is getting a transformation of its own. The Soul Saddle, according to its makers, is a tech device that helps the rider understand the soul of the horse on which he or she sits. Not just the brain of the horse. The soul. (Take that, predictive maintenance!)The Soul Saddle is only in prototype stage, so put away your wallets. Here’s how it (supposedly) works: there’s a thin sensor that gets placed…
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