Remote maintenance - once the province of special applications - is now commonplace and it is possible to connect all manner of devices easily and inexpensively. That opens up opportunities for both the manufacturers of these devices and the maintenance providers who tend them. Better coordinated fieldwork and reduced operating costs number among these opportunities, as well as a raft of new services that can be offered to customers. Jürgen Hase reports.
ABB gets on track with first London Underground power upgrade project to feature its new Relion IEC61850 compliant intelligent electronic devices, which were unveiled at Railtex last year.
For trucks with trailers, slippery winter roads and downhill gradients represent a tough challenge for even the most skilled of drivers. There is always the risk of the rig becoming unstable and, in the worst-case scenario, starting to jack-knife.
Are we on the brink of a robotics revolution? That's what the media asked last December when Google acquired eight robotics companies. Rob Matheson reports.
Climbing robots that mimic the stickiness of gecko lizard feet could work in space as well as on Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shown, raising the prospect of hull-crawling automatons tending future spacecraft.