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  • Delayed standards implementation causes confusion

    Engineers and machine builders face safety standards confusion.

  • This article has a related video Farm of the future

    Robots are taking over down on the farm.

  • Intelligent waterworks upgrade: going with the flow

    Few responsibilities are greater for a control system than the reliable running of a waterworks, as failure to keep the water flowing for 24 hours a day leads to expensive and awkward workarounds. However, one Danish facility has found a way to enable its personnel to monitor water quantity, pressure drops and salinity directly on their PCs.

  • Wireless wars

    A lack of standards is holding back wireless automation.

  • Intelligent cars

    Fully autonomous vehicles for everyday use in the future are fantasy, but improved driver aids are evolving and here to stay says E&T.

  • Deep-sea technology

    New technologies are required to cope with the cold and pressure as oil companies head out into deeper waters in their quest for oil.

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Pole position

Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a telescope is taking shape - not one in the conventional sense of the word, based around optics or a radio dish, but a huge array of optical sensors designed to look for sub-atomic particles called neutrinos, explains E&T.

This article has a related video Carriers underway

The UK’s new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.

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Sustaining high-speed data streams on USB

To optimize the use of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and deliver high-performance data acquisition, National Instruments created NI signal streaming technology. NI signal streaming combines three innovative hardware and software-level design elements to enable sustained high-speed and bidirectional data streams over USB.

Engineers and heroes

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.

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