A surgeon reattaching a severed nerve works under a microscope, stitching vessels thinner than a human hair with hands that must not tremble. Even the steadiest hands have limits — a natural tremor of about a hundred micrometres that no amount of training can eliminate. For decades, microsurgeons simply accepted that limit. Then a team in Eindhoven built a robot that removed it.This is the story of Microsure and the MUSA robot — a device that gives surgeons hands that cannot shake....

Every organisation on earth runs on processes — sequences of steps that move work from start to finish. For decades, those processes were invisible. Managers drew flowcharts of how they thought things worked, but nobody could see how things actually worked in practice. Then a Dutch professor named Wil van der Aalst had an idea: what if you could extract the real process directly from the data that computer systems already record?That idea became process mining — a discipline that g...