ABB Ltd

Totally.

Um, tha- that's on the back of the ABB finals, of course, which is, fuck, how good is that weekend? Uh, chuck in all the s- the single-fin events and 20 events all around the world.

Red Bull Cape Fear, I've heard rumors that's coming back.

Um, that's-

So there are a few robot manufacturers.

Fennec, ABB come to mind as like, okay, these people are making real robots.

They have customers on the other side.

And basically everything else, you're betting that the demand from physical AI use cases is going to materially lead to inflection in their business.

and that none but comparatively unimportant arabic and other oriental manuscripts made up the sultan's library some believe that in spite of repeated assertions to the contrary on the part of turkish officials and others there somewhere lies a secret hoard neglected and uncared for perhaps but nevertheless existent of ancient and valuable greek manuscripts the seraglio has usually been considered to be the repository of this hoard and access to the seraglio is very difficult and almost impossible to obtain in the year eighteen hundred professor carlyle during his travels in the east took enormous pains and used every means in his power to reach the bottom of the mystery surrounding the seraglio treasures he was assured by every turkish officer whom he consulted on the subject that no greek manuscripts existed there and when by dint of influence in high quarters and much patience and perseverance he at length gained permission to examine the seraglio library he found that it consisted chiefly of arabic manuscripts and contained not a single greek latin or hebrew writing the library or such part of it as the professor was shown was approached through a mosque and consisted of a small cruciform chamber measuring only twelve yards at its greatest width one arm of the cross served as an antechamber and the other three contained the book cases the books were laid on their sides one on the other the ends outward their titles were written on the edges of the leaves the result of the professor's researches went to confirm the belief held by so many that no greek manuscripts had survived on the other hand the jealousy and suspicion of the turks would render it at least possible that despite the apparent straightforwardness with which mr carlyle was treated there were stores of manuscripts which were kept back from him a final touch of mystery was given to this fascinating subject by a tradition concerning a certain building in constantinople which had been closed up ever since the time of the turkish conquest in the fifteenth century of the existence of this building professor carlyle was certain the tradition asserted that it contained many of the former possessions of the greek emperors and among these possessions professor carlyle expected that the remains of the imperial library would be found if such remains existed of other libraries of olden times such as those of antioch and ephesus or those in private possession in the country houses of italy and gaul and which perished at the hands of the barbarians it is not necessary to speak more fully it is sufficient to point out that they existed and that though we possess few details as to their furniture or arrangement we are justified in concluding that the latter at any rate were luxuriously appointed it must not be inferred however that all the books which disappeared from these various centres were of necessity destroyed Many, and particularly some of the Byzantine manuscripts, were dispersed over Europe and survived to enrich our libraries and museums of today.

End of chapter 3 chapter four books in mediaeval times the books of the middle ages are a special subject in themselves since they include all the illuminated manuscripts of ireland england and the continent we can therefore do little more than indicate their historical place in the story of books we have only to look at a mediaeval illuminated manuscript to understand how books were regarded in those days and with what lavish expenditure of time and skill the quaint characters were traced and the ornaments designed and executed and having looked we gather that books being rare were appreciated and being sacred were reverenced and that it was deemed a worthy thing to make a good book and to make it beautiful sometimes the monkish artist's handiwork had a result not foreseen by him for we read that when st boniface the saxon missionary who gave his life to the conversion of germany wrote to ask the abbess eadburga for a missal he desired that the colours might be gay and bright even as a glittering lamp and an illumination for the hearts of the gentiles it is easy to imagine how the brilliant pages would attract the colour-loving barbarians and prepare the way for friendly advances it is probable that the custom of ornamenting books with drawings was derived from the egyptians by the greeks and from the greeks by the romans among whom decorated books were common although they are known to us chiefly by means of copies preserved in byzantine and italian manuscripts of a more recent period These, and a few examples dating from the time of Constantine, exhibit a style evidently derived from classical models.

A survey of medieval books properly begins with the early Irish manuscripts, which stand at the head of a long and glorious line stretching, chronologically, from the 7th century of our era to the 15th.

although it is not known where the art was born to which these wonderful productions of celtic pencraft owe their origin it is ireland nevertheless which has provided us with the earliest and finest examples of this work the marvels of skill and beauty which summed up as it were in the book of kells the book of durrow and others set the irish manuscripts beyond imitation or rivalry most of these books are psalters or gospels in latin while the remainder consist of missals and other religious compilations and of them all the book of kells is the most famous it was written in the seventh century and probably indicates the highest point of skill reached by the irish artist scribes or as regards its own particular style of ornamentation by any artist scribes whatever it is a book of the gospels written in latin on vellum and the size of the volume of the writing and of the initial letters is unusually large the leaves measure thirteen and a half by nine and a half inches the illustrations represent various incidents in the life of christ and portraits of the evangelists accompanied by formal designs ornamentation is largely introduced into the text and the first few words of each gospel are so lavishly decorated and have initial letters of such size that in each case they occupy the whole of a page the book just described was preserved at kells until the early part of the seventeenth century it is then passed into archbishop usher's possession and finally into the library of trinity college dublin where it is now treasured of course it is impossible to give here a reproduction of a page of this marvellous book in its proper size and colours our illustrations however may convey a little idea of the accuracy and minuteness of the work which it is hardly necessary to say was done entirely by hand and will serve as a text for a brief summary of the chief features of irish book art The design here shown is composed of a diagonal cross set in a rectangular frame, having in each angle a symbol of one of the four evangelists.

I'm pretty sure it was Siemens.

ABB.

So we're working with those companies that that's their bread and butter, you know.

So I think the main challenge is the utility and bringing that infrastructure down to the docks is going to be the challenge.

In October it'll be six years.

And, uh, and prior to that I spent 20 years over at ABB.

So I've been doing, uh, robotics automation, uh, integration for, uh, 26, 27 years, and, uh, quite a bit of experience in that.

Well, welcome to you both.