By Far The Most Common Snake In Britain Is The Adder

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In Scotland, in fact, there are no other snakes at all. The adder is also the only British snake with a poisonous bite.

lt can be found almost anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open country, including high ground. In Ireland there are no snakes at all.

Most people regard snake bites as a fatal misfortune, but not all bites are serious, and very few are fatal. Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn out to be more dangerous than the bite itself, with amateurs heroically, but mistakenly, trying do-it-yourself surgery and other unnecessary measures.

All snakes have small teeth, so it follows that all snakes can bite, but only the bite of the adder presents any danger. British snakes are shy animals and are far ...
... more frightened of you than you could possibly be of them.

The adder will attack only if it feels threatened, as can happen if you take it by surprise and step on it accidentally or if you try to catch it or pick it up, which it dislikes intensely. If it hears you coming, it will normally get out of the way as quickly as it can, but adders cannot move very rapidly and may attack before moving if you are very close.

The effect of a bite varies considerably.lt depends upon several things, one of which is the body-weight of the person bitten. The bigger the person, the less harmful the bite is likely to be, which is why children suffer more seriously from snake bites than adults. A healthy person will also have better resistance against the poison.

Very few people actually die from snake bites in Britain, and though these bites can make some people very ill,there are probably just as many cases of bites having little or no effect, as there are of serious illness.

Predictions of large populations of robots in industry have yet to come true. For a decade or more, manufacturers of big robots have explained how their machines can make industry more competitive and productive. The market for big robots is now oversupplied, and the driving force of the robotics revolution is claimed to be with makers of machines that handle a few kilos at most.

"Heavy-robot manufacturers are in some difficulty in finding customers. They are offering big discounts just to get in the door. There has been a disappointing growth everywhere in the numbers of robots, so we have to admit we are either deceiving ourselves or that the market is slowly growing," said John Reekie, Chairman of Colne Robotics.

"The following things must j happen for the robotics revolution to occur.We must achieve widespread : robot literacy's as there has been a computer literacy program, there must be a robot literacy campaign. We must also achieve not just a cut in, but a collapse of robot prices. Finally, some kind of artificial intelligence needs to be available."Colne makes educational robots and machine tools.

lt is small compared with companies like Unimation,ASEA,or Fujitsu Fanuc. But Clone and others like Pendar,which makes robots in Wales, and departments in universities such as Surrey,Machester,and Durham possess an advantage over the giants.

The big companies sell very expensive robots to businesses with ex- ' pert knowledge in automation. The little companies make robots for teaching j people,and now they have realized there is a need for small, low-cost robots that they can meet.

The little companies either bring their educational machines up to an industrial standard or design from scratch. One technique that they all adopt '. is to choose standard components where possible.

The major cost of making ' both their models is the electronics, which will fall in price. There is less scope for reductions in mechanical costs. The use of standard parts, which > are easily replaced, should give these robots a mechanical life of something in the order of five years.