While an IoT sensor on a piece of equipment enables you to communicate with the device, the mobile devices we all carry are the primary tools we use to communicate with each other.

Times are changing. We once saw small country schoolhouses teach a handful of children at varying ages within the same classroom. Since then, schools have increased in size and classrooms are filled to the brim.

Nature has inspired robotics since its earliest days. In 1739, French artist Jacques de Vaucanson gave the world the Digesting Duck, a surreal automaton that appeared to eat – and, yes, poop out – grain.