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Drone photographs taken of a 3,000-year-old "mega fortress" nestled deep in the Caucasus Mountains reveal the settlement is actually 40 times larger than archaeologists once thought. New aerial images of the Dmanisis Gora settlement, located in present-day Georgia, show a large land area well guarded by steep gorges and plastered with various stone structures and field systems. Though the structure's inner fortress has been well-documented for several years, new mapping made possible thanks to a simple hobbyist drone helped redraw the Bronze Age monument's boundaries. Researchers shared their findings this week in the journal Antiquity. The Dmanisis Gora is one of several documented fortresses that popped between the Middle East and the Eurasian Steppe sometime between 1,500 and 500 BCE.

FANUC Corp. is teaming up with Cisco, Rockwell Automation and Preferred Networks (PFN) to develop and deploy the FANUC Intelligent Edge Link and Drive (FIELD) system for major automotive manufacturers. The new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform will expand upon the FANUC ZDT (Zero Downtime) project to connect not only CNC machines and industrial robots, but also peripheral devices and sensors for greater analytical data to improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and increase profitability. "With a secure scalable compute approach to analyze this data--from device to the enterprise--users can improve operations and make more informed decisions tailored to meet the needs of their organizations," said Sujeet Chand, CTO of Rockwell Automation. The Allen-Bradley Stratix Ethernet switches from Rockwell Automation will be used to connect FANUC robots to Cisco's ZDT Data Collection software. PFN provides the FIELD system with an open deep-learning framework (Chainer), an IoT Stream Engine (SensorBee) and other machine learning libraries within its Deep Intelligence in-Motion (DIMo) platform.