• ELECTRONICS
    Microfactories to assemble electronics

    Hanspal (left), and Ciubotariu (right) Bright Machines, a startup founded by a group of software and manufacturing executives, on Wednesday released its latest “microfactories” designed to automate the assembly of electronics. While automation has taken hold in factories for cars and other products, the company’s chief executive, Amar Hanspal, said machines have eluded electronics assemblers because they can […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Experts Assemble for UN-Hosted Meeting on ‘Killer Robots’

    HIGHLIGHTS Experts are meeting to discuss ways to deal with “killer robots” These are weapons that could conduct war without human intervention Amnesty International urged countries to work toward a ban Experts from scores of countries are meeting to discuss ways to define and deal with “killer robots” – futuristic weapons systems that could conduct […]