Silicon.com reviews the lab

Apparently this was sent round Warwick university saying what a cool research group is like.

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Prediction of the day - Tractors

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I predict that someone will built a 'robot' tractor. This will either plough/spray/harvest e.c.t but will so with out infield supervision. That is the farmer will tack the tractor to the field set it up then leave. The robot will be able to navigate over the field to do its job. Farmers already use sat-nav to steer tractors already but they end up sitting on them doing little. I predict that the tractors will become fully autonomous but in the process they will become a lot smaller - I suspect that the gain of a big tractor will not be great when your not longer saving farmer time.

1966 prediction of the home computer

I love this. One day it will all be true.

BBC News - Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms

BBC News - Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms

If the BBC are saying it then the age of Ubicomp must have begun.