If anything, the company was more interested in promoting other, even less sexy, products, like home-automation equipment (below) and routers.

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Last year he approached Safreno, whose company, Trust Automation, builds high-precision robotic equipment.

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The scope of automation is circumscribed by the management systems that control equipment in the data center.

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