According to ABB, annual cost savings of $300,000 can be achieved through improved uptime with its safety programmable logic controller (PLC).
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Nobel prize for makers of world’s smallest machines
Three European scientists have won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing nanomachines that could be injected to fight cancer or used to make new technologies.
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Questioning the way machines think
A cross-disciplinary gathering in Melbourne will examine questions around machine thinking, such as whether driverless cars should make ethical decisions, if technologists should warn people about the effects of technology, and whether computers can already think for themselves.
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IO-Link Master and Sensors
The new IO-Link master for the Allen-Bradley POINT I/O system and IO-Link enabled sensors from Rockwell Automation go beyond detecting machine problems to help enhance machine productivity.
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New safety switch
The new Euchner safety switch CTP offers guard locking and safe guard lock monitoring. It combines the proven principle of operation of electromechanical safety switches with transponder-coded safety engineering.
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The drive towards ethical AI and responsible robots has begun
Robots and AIs do make good cinematic villains. However, in reality no one has much clue how to make a robot “want” or “feel” anything in a phenomenologically credible way as yet; let alone how to make them sociopaths hell bent on world domination and the extermination of Homo sapiens.
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The future of HMIs
Back in the noughties, time consuming text messaging on numeric keypads paved the way for a new form of abbreviated language
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