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...guide the development of four new products during the period 1992–96: AutoCAD Release 13: an update of the original Autodesk package that provides designers and engineers with a personal-computer-based 2D and 3D design and drafting environment and toolset. AutoCAD LT: a version of AutoCAD with reduced features, supporting 2D drafting and design only. Mechanical Desktop:...

...University of Cambridge, has expressed sentiments of just this type in relation to nanotechnology – the science of the very small – announcing that a ‘citizens' jury’ is to be established, which offers an opportunity to ‘rule’ on benefits and risks of nanotechnology: In this race to exploit the technology, it is crucial that potential risks, hazards and...

...University. Traditionally among the poorest paid of the workforce, carers are an ever more scarce resource. Policy makers have begun to cast their eyes towards robots as a possible source of compliant and cheaper help. The robots already in production, Belpaeme tells me, are principally geared to monitoring the elderly and infirm, or providing companionship while, as yet,...