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#343 Weaving Software into Automation
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card as a means of inputting control data to one of the earliest automated technologies, the weavers’ loom. A generation
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#127 Tools for Thinking
In today’s episode we are looking from the dawn of engineering to the modern day, at ‘tools for thinking’. These are the intellectual methods and
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Research Team Develop Software to Accelerate DNA Robot Production
Researchers from Ohio State University have developed software that is able to produce DNA robots in a very short space of time. In a process
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Wristband device monitors emotional state of employees
A silicone wristband has been designed that keeps track of an employee’s emotional state. According to an article on BBC News, the Moodbeam wristband allows
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Driverless car trials take place in Oxford
A company has launched a project that has seen self-driving cars take to the roads in Oxford. ‘Project Endeavour’ is a research and development project
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Robotic raspberry harvester
Fieldwork Robotics is working with Bosch UK to accelerate the production of robots that harvest soft fruit. Led by Dr Martin Stoelen, Fieldwork Robotics is
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Technology vs Biology – Fighting COVID 19
Wuhan, China – a city of 11 million people and a commercial, manufacturing and transportation hub, sitting at the confluence of two of Asia’s longest rivers, the Yangtze and the Han.