Also this year, the robotics company Kuka - whose orange arms are ubiquitous in highly automated German auto plants - was taken over by the Chinese appliance maker Midea.
Following the explosion and fire on the rig, the blow-out preventer on the sea bed should have automatically sealed the well, but it failed, resulting in the massive oil spill.
Did you seek an education in active performance, or did you seek to be educated in passive reception and automatic acquisition of information that was fed to you?
They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th-century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.
Shermis, a professor at the University of Akron in Ohio, supervised the Hewlett Foundation's contest on automated essay scoring and wrote a paper about the experiment.
When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.
More than a century of mechanization has already turned farming into an industrial-scale activity in much of the world, with farms that grow cereals being the most heavily automated.