The standards specify performance requirements that will permit human workers to collaborate with robots directly, and they reverse manufacturing guidelines from 1999 that prohibited "continuous attended operations" requiring humans to be in close contact with robots that were deemed unsafe by the industry.
The current VACES configuration consumes significant electrical power for pumping and cooling, and requires attended operation by expert operators.
An Australian aircraft is now at the scene, and a United States Poseidon vessel is also attending the operation.
If the price was right, practically every ISP would opt into the system, since the cost of the legal headaches attending the operation of a service without such a licence would be more expensive than getting legit.
There is more clarity on that point than on the question of who will take over Libya if Qaddafi leaves, but that's a pretty low bar: as Philip Gourevitch points out in his pointed summary of the questions attending this operation, we have no idea.
Randomisation, intervention and handling of study samples is carried out by a trained study crew member attending the operation who is either a medical student, a laboratory technician or the local, principal investigator (who is not involved in the patient care).
During times that patients do not attend the operations of the clinic continue and staff are paid, with no tangible productivity recorded.
Saudi experience attending complex mass operations is peerless.
Each centre had two surgeons attending all the operations.
Organisers said the borough commander, Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, declined to attend, citing "operation reasons".
