In the development environment CodeSys the user sometimes has to exclude libraries or other objects from the build, for example when faced with error code 3700 or other circumstances with duplicated libraries. For CodeSys version 2.3 this can be done…

By studying the flight of seagulls the German automation company Festo has managed to create a birdlike robot, SmartBird, that is powered by wing strokes rather than propellers. A cleaver piece of engineering that uses lightweight materials to make this…