Tech Article 11/18/11

The Snake-arm robot

Managing director Rob Buckingham and technical director Andrew Graham developed their first prototype in 2001 from their base in Bristol, England, and they've been perfecting the technology ever since.
Today, with clients in the nuclear sector and others queuing up for a demonstration, the hard work is beginning to pay off.  The technical challenge was finding a way to channel energy into the snake-arm. This robot is said to be able to reach the unreachable.



Tech Article 11/8/11

On Monday, a software glitch in the Internet wonky sounding "Border Gateway Protocol" created a ripple effect that crashed data networks around the world. The outage started with Jupitor Network, which is a company that makes router hardware for large networks.  When those routers crashed, key internet pathways went down into them.  Times Warner Cable suffered a short but widespread blackout.  These problems are very unfortunate.