Farming Robots!

 Automated Machines Progressing in Agriculture?

Naio Orio is a French company making waves with its 700Kg tool carrier that can work with brassicas and carrot and a host of other crops and coming in at 200,000 Euros for the big farmers is a splash in the pan!

Four models are now available working with a Dutch company they can offer a large selection of tools for automated work on the farms and is one of the many break through's that are being made in the field?

The Paris Metro. Part-One.

A different system.

The French do things differently from everyone else, that is why they are noted for their style and taste. This also applies to the Paris Metro system, which has always been much more of a tramway, than a train network. 

Over the last thirty years it has moved away in some aspects from a track based system to that of rubberized wheels, making it unique in that sense.


The network is large for a capital city, it has gradually been modernized, but the old style has been kept and enhanced where needs be.

Maritime Recconaissance.

Reconnaissance aircraft.

With the retirement of the the British Nimrod Mk3/4 MR. The U.K. is still without a suitable replacement. Many nations who have access to a coastline have to have some form of aircraft large or small dedicated to patrol the seas and oceans, even large inland seas and lakes.

Today there are a plethora of civil types which can be adapted for various roles from the big jobs, right down to fishery protection. Aircraft of yester year such as the P-3 Orion, Tu-16 Badger, F-27 and the Atlantique may no loner be as effective as they one were in the Cold War years.

Today's threats come from drug/narcotic smuggling, asylum seekers in overcrowded ageing ships and ship dumping fuel to clean their tanks.

'On My Bicycle.'

The bicycle is probably the most basic and commonest form of transport, that the human mind has ever conceived. 

There are millions of them out there and they can be found everywhere in every type of environment. Obviously snow and sand may be not. From the Penny Farthing and early French developments, which had no pedals. The bike is now light weight and a racing machine in its own right.

It is also good for exercise and in extremely environmentally friendly. But withing the environs of the large cities, it can be a death trap to the automobiles.

But as a tricycle it is transport for millions in the third-world. The Rickshaw can be used to transport people and goods and it is a clever adaption. 

But what does the future hold for this wonderful mode of simple transport?