Ms Carmi says she is happy to be judged on her work, carried out on the basis of all she was able to find out at the time.

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Because the sun never dips below the horizon during the Arctic summer, GROVER can work at any time during the day and should be able to work longer and gather more data than a human on a snowmobile.

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He told BBC Sport at the Italian Grand Prix two weeks ago that the building work at the track was on schedule and he had no doubts it would be ready in time for the inaugural race, which is scheduled to take place on 30 October 2011.

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At the time of his dental work, Walker was still small and light enough to be operated on an improvised table made from planks of wood laid on straw bales.

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Ferrell envisions a world, for example, where your routine morning coffee would be automatically ordered at the exact time to have it waiting for you at your local cafe on the way to work.

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He puts in an additional 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening that he would spend driving instead, yet he is more relaxed and has more energy than ever before and is able to be at the dinner table, with our family, on time, every night, which never happened while commuting to work.

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