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Mark Langdon is the Control editor.
Formula One has never been short on controversy, with reports down the years of spying, lying and sex scandals prompting some observers to compare it to the best soap operas and a new episode is being played out as this issue of E&T goes to press.
E&T meets the designers of the RoboThespian, the all-singing, all-dancing humanoid robot, which is entertaining and informing audiences around the world.
Mathematical models could predict how diseases and viruses will spread – and hopefully prevent them from doing so, explains E&T.
E&T explains that the European Union has been rolling along the path to rail harmonisation for 20 years, with the occasional delay en route.
The next step in human evolution is to reverse engineer intelligence and to improve on it, explains E&T.
It is the stuff that science fiction thrives on. Just watch ‘I, Robot’, ‘Terminator’ or ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and you will see an anecdote of robots, built by man to fight wars that then turn against humanity.
Recent control system upgrades carried out by Schneider Electric have contributed to an 8 per cent increase in productivity at a Corus steel plant in Wales.
The mainstream media outlets are full of depressing news stories about high profile bankruptcies, factory closures and redundancies. Even the technical trade press has an air of panic around it. You could be forgiven for feeling that the world has gone into meltdown, that we’ll all be out of work soon and facing a bleak future.
Specifying an open building automation system reduces costs and increases flexibility.
Many will have seen the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series and marvelled at the CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) creations and now the dinosaurs have been brought to life and are starting a tour of the UK today, to be followed by a tour of 31 venues in Europe and then on to Asia.
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