Automation technology suppliers are integrating robot kinematics directly into PLCs, simplifying programming, reducing costs, ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

The new containerized and scalable virtual control expands flexibility, cuts costs and simplifies automation in the TwinCAT software ecosystem. SAVAGE, Minnesota, Sept. 23, 2025 – Beckhoff is ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

The latest window profile processing machine from Schirmer Maschinen GmbH featuring Beckhoff's MX-System. (© Beckhoff, 2025) Automation World caught up with Beckhoff at Automate 2025 to get updates on ...

Jensen Huang said people programming AI is similar to the way "you program a person." Speaking at London Tech Week, the Nvidia CEO said all anyone had to do to program AI was "just ask nicely." He ...

Jensen Huang is the CEO of $3.48 trillion AI chipmaker Nvidia. At London Tech Week on Monday, Huang said that AI enables anyone to write code, simply by prompting a chatbot to do it for them. The ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

If you’re the only controls engineer in your facility, you probably know where to find the programming code and files for any of the PLCs in your lines, along with dated documentation regarding any ...

Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

President Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first such designation in the country's history. The order, which Trump signed on Saturday, ...