IndustryAsk three suppliers what makes a sensor smart and you will get three answers, none of which mentions a standard. That is the whole difficulty with the question in the…
IndustryLists like this one usually fail in the same way: they name a mechanism, describe what it might do, and quietly skip the part where a regulator or a randomised…
IndustryCalling something a gold standard is a claim about what practitioners ought to do, not about what they do. In maintenance the gap between those two things is unusually wide…
IndustryThe most useful book written about eldercare robotics is called Robots Won't Save Japan. James Wright spent eighteen months between 2016 and 2020 inside a Japanese care home he calls…
IndustryEvery January the trend lists arrive, and by June most of them read like wishes. So we went the other way this year and started from the invoices. Gartner put…
IndustryAsk a data centre operator whether they are ready for AI and you usually get an answer about hardware. Ask them when they can energise their next hall and the…
IndustryThe most revealing line in this year's operational technology reporting is not a breach count. It is an accounting problem. Dragos notes in its 2026 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Year in Review,…