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On 15 October 2026, Tesla demonstrated a new generation of Roadster at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, using high-pressure gas thrusters to perform manoe...
Industrial computers operating alongside motors, switching equipment and heavy electrical machinery face a persistent reliability problem: electromagnetic interference en...
Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 mยฒ innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materials, robotic equipment and construction techniques can...
A robot can see a connector entering a socket without knowing whether it has locked into place. It can recognise an object but lose sight of it while carrying out an oper...
A 3D concrete printer can build a wall layer by layer, but every new deposit adds weight to material that has yet to develop its full strength. If the lower layers deform...
At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal components for vehicle production. Dur...
Six hundred metres of drill core photography, analysed in two minutes. That is the processing speed Seequent reports for its new AI-powered Imago image analysis system, w...
Measuring the volume of material travelling along a conveyor belt sounds straightforward until the flow becomes irregular. Mulch, wood chips and aggregates rarely move in...
Intel has detailed a new AI accelerator design supporting up to 480 GB of memory, targeting one of the increasingly expensive challenges facing data centre operators: run...
A solar farm can cover hundreds or even thousands of acres, yet some of its most expensive problems may begin in an area smaller than a single module. A misaligned tracke...
Emdoor Information reported revenue of RMB 4.583 billion in 2025, up 44.15% on the previous year, as the Chinese electronics manufacturer continued developing its interna...
Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and supporting equipment arrive in successive deliveries, move bet...
At one of the world’s most advanced scientific research facilities, an X-ray beam can be adjusted with extraordinary precision and detectors can generate more than...
Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies into an international network of road a...
The Netherlands has spent decades building one of the world’s most mature cycling systems. The next challenge may be adapting that infrastructure to vehicles that s...
Britain’s national mapping agency generated ยฃ198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up ยฃ4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contribut...
Wildfire aviation has always depended on seeing enough of the fireground to make safe decisions. For an autonomous aircraft carrying suppressant through smoke, across bro...
Panasonic Connect has expanded its TOUGHBOOK range with two fully rugged 2-in-1 computers designed around a practical problem facing field organisations: the same computi...
Industrial controllers rarely fail for want of headline-grabbing computing power. More often, their designers are wrestling with quieter problems: electrical noise, diffe...
A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraul...
A supervisor pulling last week’s timesheets finds three guys clocked in a full hour before their trucks ever reached the site. The app that was supposed to prevent...
Artificial intelligence can save somebody ten minutes writing an email, or allow the same person to attempt work they could not previously have done at all. The distincti...
Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical enviro...
Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding anothe...
Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicle technology out of controll...
Critical communications infrastructure has traditionally been difficult to make small. Resilience demands redundancy, radio capacity requires hardware, and remote coverag...
Managing a fleet becomes a very different exercise when the assets being tracked extend from road vehicles and aerial lifts to wood chippers, trailers, electrical testing...
Artificial intelligence has acquired something that every construction business understands: a meter. Generative AI systems consume tokens as they process instructions an...
Artificial intelligence can write software, interpret documents, plan a journey and reason through complicated problems. Ask it to act reliably in the physical world, how...
Humanity can plainly survive without oil. It did so for almost its entire history. The harder question is whether the industrial civilisation built during the petroleum a...
Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms that liv...
More than 63,000 cubic metres of earth had to be moved to create Yorkshire Water’s new integrated constructed wetland at Dearne Reach. The earthmoving itself was co...
A dent in an excavator counterweight, a chip in a windscreen or a puncture buried in the tread of a tyre can be surprisingly difficult to spot during a hurried equipment...
Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a s...
Deep Fission has successfully lowered a full-size prototype reactor canister into a 34-inch borehole and recovered it using equipment already available to the commercial...
Electronic circuits normally arrive as components. They are manufactured separately, mounted on boards, packaged, connected and eventually installed inside the machine or...
BIM coordination on linear infrastructure usually fails at package boundaries, where one team’s scope ends and another’s begins. On Australia’s major ro...
Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground penetrating radar data into the same...
A vibration sensor on an industrial pump detects something unusual. Conventionally, that creates an alert, a work order or perhaps a message on an engineer’s dashbo...
Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a pallet-mounted VMS that can be delivered, positio...
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