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Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, however, and the arrangement is considerably more interesting. The vehicles are supp...
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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised instruments are being adapted to fly aboard commercial UAV platforms. G...
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The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other
The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Yunex Traffic, TraffGO Road...
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US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records
US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential moment for the American unmanned aircraft market. On the final day of the event, a new US tariff regime...
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CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department
CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department CoreWeave has launched Physical AI Field Engineering, taking specialists with backgrounds in automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering into customer teams to build machine-learning models around the test data, simulations, sensors an...
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Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory
Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory Aerial firefighting technology has an awkward development problem. New sensing systems, retardants and mission tools can be engineered and tested independently, but ultimately they have to work together aboard aircraft operat...
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Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring
Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site can generate data from robotic total stations, GNSS receivers, geotechnical instruments, structural s...
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AI Data Centres Start Following the Power
AI Data Centres Start Following the Power The enormous build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure has created an awkward engineering problem. GPUs can be manufactured and servers assembled considerably faster than new electrical capacity can be connected to them. Lektra is approaching that...
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Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations
Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations Owning a satellite is one thing. Owning the communications network, spacecraft, ground infrastructure and operational capability behind an entire constellation is considerably harder. Eclipse Space is building its busines...
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When the Robot Is the Easy Part
When the Robot Is the Easy Part Boston Dynamics says experience from more than 2,000 Spot robots working around the world has allowed it to develop an increasingly repeatable process for industrial deployment. Alongside the distinctive quadruped machine, the company has accumulated something increas...
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Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm
Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm Finding somewhere to put a new power plant or utility-scale battery inside a city is partly an electrical engineering problem. It is also a question of zoning, noise, land availability, historic buildings, tourism, development policy and what the peo...
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Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase
Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Jacobs appointed to lead consenting and Development Consent Order work for EnergyPathwaysโ MESH projec...
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Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model
Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model Motif has launched the product that reveals what a team of former Autodesk executives has been building with $46 million of investment: a browser-based BIM authoring platform designed from the outset for architects and AI agents to work on the sam...
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ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge
ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Technologies Division covering fields ranging from artificial intell...
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When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem
When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem A faded speed-limit sign is normally an asset-maintenance problem. For a vehicle relying on machine vision, it can also become something rather more complicated. Researchers from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Kyung Hee University an...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium developer community it acquired in 2024. Located at the Curtis Center, th...
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Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud
Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud Five employees started building software for the ready-mix concrete industry in 1976. Fifty years later, Command Alkon says its systems sit behind more than 690,000 dispatched loads each day, track around 60,000 trucks and support...
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Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations Commercial drone technology has spent much of the past decade proving that aircraft can fly further, carry better sensors and automate increasingly complex missions. At Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, three companie...
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Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space
Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space Bridges, dams, and tunnels rarely fail without warning. They move first, often by fractions of an inch, long before a crack becomes visible to an inspector on foot. Satellite radar now makes that early movement measurable across entire assets and corridor...
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Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution
Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution The Pasig River is only 27 kilometres long, yet it is estimated to carry around 63,000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean each year. Across Metro Manila, more than 48 tributaries feed into a waterway affected by dense development, s...
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Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks
Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks Railway engineers in South Korea have demonstrated a removable thermal barrier that KRRI says reduced summer rail temperatures by as much as 10.9ยฐC, without water, electrical power or permanent modification to the track. Developed by the Kor...
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Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure
Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a physical location. For governments, infrastructure operators and heavily regulated businesses, where an...
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Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory
Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory Zeroth has opened global bookings for Bridge, an 88 cm humanoid robot weighing about 13 kg, but the hardware may be the less interesting part of the launch. Alongside it comes OpenBridge, an open-source development environment intended...
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Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets Americaโs Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap
Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets Americaโs Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap A research team at Case Western Reserve University is preparing to use molten salt electrolysis to extract dysprosium and terbium, two of the difficult heavy rare earth elements required for high-performance permanent magnets...
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Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping
Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing problem. Aircraft need to cover long distances efficiently while still capturing conductors, structural ed...
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The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri
The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri Launch before the end of 2029. Spend less than $15 million. Carry at least one kilogram. Get within one per cent of the distance to Alpha Centauri in no more than 80,000 years. Those are the four constraints behind the Fermi Explorer Mission, a n...
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Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility
Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility AEyeโs Apollo long-range lidar is heading for the Moon. Lunar Outpost has selected the solid-state sensor for Pegasus, the Lunar Terrain Vehicle being developed to carry Artemis astronauts across the Moonโs South Pole region. The multi-...
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Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable?
Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable? A 10.4-tonne magnet arriving on a flatbed truck might appear an unlikely symbol of compact engineering. Yet the central magnet bundle delivered to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in June 2026 sits at the heart of one of fusion energyโ...
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Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating
Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A drywall estimator measuring a wall is not ultimately in...
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Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City
Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City Raleigh is building a digital representation of the city that is designed to change whenever the city itself does. Drone surveys of construction sites, infrastructure, storm damage and public spaces can be processed into new image...
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Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform
Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform The Netherlands changed the way heavy goods vehicles pay to use its roads on 1 July 2026. The Eurovignette disappeared, kilometre-based charging began and every affected truck became part of a digital road-pricing sys...
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Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion
Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion Every gram and watt matters aboard a professional multirotor, making the electronic speed controller between the battery and propulsion motor a surprisingly consequential piece of hardware. Allient has now brought gallium nitride...
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John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar
John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar Autonomous machinery has a relatively easy job when the world around it is open, predictable and accurately mapped. An orchard offers almost the opposite. Rows of trees create repetitive geometry and obstruct satellite signals. Branches, fo...
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Seoulโs Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test
Seoulโs Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test Smart cities tend to be described through infrastructure: sensors, communications networks, digital twins, autonomous systems and the data platforms connecting them. Seoulโs Magok District had much of that foundation when the city tried...
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Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway
Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from factories, power stations and water treatment plants: a programmable logic...
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AI Physics Pushes Engineering Simulation Towards a New Compute Model
AI Physics Pushes Engineering Simulation Towards a New Compute Model Engineering simulation is beginning to acquire a second workload alongside the computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and other numerical models that have occupied high-performance computing systems for decades. Incr...
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BEX Asia 2026 Puts Practical AI and Robotics at the Centre of Construction Technology
BEX Asia 2026 Puts Practical AI and Robotics at the Centre of Construction Technology More than 200 exhibiting brands will gather at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from 2 to 4 September for BEX Asia 2026, but one number gives a better indication of where the exhibition is heading: organisers expect a...
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When Construction Starts Learning
When Construction Starts Learning An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide another history of utilisation, idling, operating hours and faults. Around it, survey flights measure chan...
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NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Autonomous Driving NVIDIA has made its 34-billion-parameter Alpamayo 2 Super autonomous-driving model available for commercial use, giving vehicle developers permission to fine-tune, modify and redistribute one of the company’s most capable reasonin...
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How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture
How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations adopted the first global framework covering Automated Driving S...
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The $1.5 Billion Race to Build the Operating System for Autonomous Machines
The $1.5 Billion Race to Build the Operating System for Autonomous Machines A construction company is about to become an AI robotics company. On the surface, that sounds like one of the stranger corporate combinations to emerge from the current rush into artificial intelligence, but the mechanics of...
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Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges
Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and water leakage in fine detail, yet each inspection has tended to stand alone, a snapshot taken from whate...
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Esri’s World Imagery Expansion Brings Infrastructure into Sharper Focus
Esri’s World Imagery Expansion Brings Infrastructure into Sharper Focus Esri’s decision to add Airbus 30 cm satellite imagery across roughly 2,000 cities, announced at the 2026 Esri User Conference alongside expanded contributions from Vantor and Nearmap, reads on the surface as a routin...
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Bentleyโs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure
Bentleyโs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure A shortlist is rarely read as a market indicator, yet the field Bentley Systems has just named for its 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards works better as economic evidence than as a ceremony programme. Of the 36 finalist pr...
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SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field
SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field The most expensive thing on any construction site is often the thing nobody can see. Buried cables, forgotten pipework, unexploded ordnance, voids, contaminated fill and uncharted ground conditions sit quietly beneath the surface until an...
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Perception Moves to the Machine as Edge AI Reshapes Off-Highway Autonomy
Perception Moves to the Machine as Edge AI Reshapes Off-Highway Autonomy The most consequential shift in artificial intelligence is no longer happening in the data centre. It is happening on the machine itself, where cameras, sensors and inference chips are being asked to see, interpret and act in r...
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The Real Bottleneck in Physical AI andย Robotics is Data
The Real Bottleneck in Physical AI andย Robotics is Data The robotics industry has spent the past two years discovering that its hardest problem is no longer the robot. Compute is abundant, actuators are capable, and vision-language-action models can turn a set of demonstrations into a working manipu...
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The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site
The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site For most of its working life the professional two-way radio has been sold as a piece of hardware defined by a single number: range. That number dictated everything downstream, from how many repeaters a contractor rented to how...
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Building the Invisible Jobsite
Building the Invisible Jobsite How the Connective Tissue Between Systems Became Construction’s Real Advantage Picture a well-run construction project five years from now. A tower crane swings above a rising frame, an excavator trims a foundation, deliveries queue at the gate and crews move bet...
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Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental
Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No. 419 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list is worth pausing on for reasons that have little to do with the acco...
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Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour
Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects are real, yet they remain comparatively uncommon on well-run sites. The cost that quietly accumulates...
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Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine
Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at a fresh audience. The more consequential story sits underneath the product name. Trimble has taken o...
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How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious and largely ignored until it failed. Operators graded it when it became visibly bad, and otherwise le...
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Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain
Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. It is that a mainstream industrial-equipment manufacturer, with nearly eight decades of terrestrial e...
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Cannes Festival Signals a Shift From Quantum Science to Quantum Industry
Cannes Festival Signals a Shift From Quantum Science to Quantum Industry The inaugural World Quantum Cannes Festival, staged at the Palais des Festivals on 17 and 18 November 2026, is being positioned as something more deliberate than another physics gathering on the Croisette. Its organisers descri...
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Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map
Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology operator is now attempting the hardest part of any turnaround, which is turning recovered profitabil...
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The New Ceiling for Physical AI is Certification, Not Capability
The New Ceiling for Physical AI is Certification, Not Capability A review paper that appeared in Machine Intelligence Researchย reads, on the surface, like a technical audit of how vision-language models can be fooled. Its commercial significance is larger than its subject matter suggests, because it...
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Membrane Refining Crosses from Chemistry into Engineering
Membrane Refining Crosses from Chemistry into Engineering A cluster of research results published in the first half of 2026 has quietly moved membrane-based crude oil separation out of the materials-science laboratory and towards the refinery fence line. For most of the past decade the idea of separ...
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From Laboratory Alloy to Working Engine in Just Four Years
From Laboratory Alloy to Working Engine in Just Four Years When Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Motors confirmed that a pair of advanced aluminium alloys had cleared the strength and durability thresholds of a new medium-duty truck engine, most of the coverage settled on the headline numbe...
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Autonomous Satellites Could Change how the World Responds to Wildfires
Autonomous Satellites Could Change how the World Responds to Wildfires Wildfire detection has spent decades as a by-product of general Earth observation, something inferred from weather satellites and land-imaging missions that happened to catch a thermal anomaly on their way past. That arrangement...
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Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics
Mobileye Moves From Selling Autonomy to Owning the Robotaxi Economics For more than two decades Mobileye has made its money selling the intelligence that other people’s vehicles drive on. Its chips, cameras and software sit behind the windscreens of more than 230 million cars, and its Mobileye...
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The Quantum Computing Race Is Shifting From Qubits To Infrastructure
The Quantum Computing Race Is Shifting From Qubits To Infrastructure For most of its commercial history, quantum computing has been sold as a promise about the future. The new evidence points somewhere more familiar to anyone who buys industrial capacity for a living. Quantum is starting to behave l...
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Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant
Fusion is Building the Industrial Infrastructure Behind the Power Plant The most significant thing about Kyoto Fusioneering’s decision to build UNITY-3 at Oak Ridge is not that another fusion research facility is going up in East Tennessee. It is that fusion has started to assemble the shared...
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Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken
Infrastructure That Can Sail Away: The Logic Behind the VITAL Kraaken Optimal Transit, the maritime engineering partnership of InMar Technologies and OptiFuel Systems, has unveiled a second configuration of its Kraaken platform, and the more revealing way to read it has little to do with floating co...
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The Autonomous Construction Company
The Autonomous Construction Company The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment handles the repetitive tasks that once tied up operators for entire shifts. It is an arresting image, a...
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Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany
Construction 3D Printing Moving to Everyday Business in Germany The headline from Selsingen is not that a German contractor has printed a building. Concrete printing has been printing buildings in Germany since Beckum in 2020, and the novelty of a two-storey office shell has worn thin. What matters...
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