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Four roadside monitoring towers covering approximately one kilometre of a live UK motorway have completed an 11-month trial of automated hazard detection, with results su...
Trimble has introduced cloud-based drone photogrammetry processing directly into its WorksManager construction management platform, allowing civil contractors to turn aer...
Nearly 90 years after its construction, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater remains an unusually demanding building to preserve. Its cantilevered concrete terraces ha...
A bus operator introducing digital ticketing, live vehicle tracking and driver monitoring faces a familiar equipment problem. Each system needs a reliable connection to t...
A team of students in China has designed a traffic cone that can fly to a roadworks site, land in position and transform itself into a conventional-looking safety marker....
Volvo Trucks has introduced a regulatory compliance service that integrates Romania’s electronic freight monitoring requirements into its existing vehicle systems,...
A construction equipment fleet can generate detailed information about engine hours, fuel consumption, idle time and productivity, yet decisions about where machines shou...
Japan’s Nittetsu Mining is working towards autonomous operation of large dump trucks at its Torigatayama Quarry Complex in Kochi Prefecture by 2033, as the country...
Bentley Systems’ subsurface software business, Seequent, has acquired French seismic interpretation specialist Eliis, adding technology developed for analysing deep...
Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman architect Vitruvius described the basilica he designed in the ancient city of Fanum Fortunae, archaeologists are examining the remains...
Researchers at Rowan University in New Jersey are developing an artificial intelligence system capable of detecting and identifying drones through the radio signals excha...
SnapInspect has introduced three artificial intelligence features that allow property inspectors to document building conditions by voice, generate maintenance work order...
Archer Aviation and ITA Airways have agreed to explore an electric air taxi network across Italy, with the proposed services using Archer’s Midnight aircraft to con...
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed an artificial intelligence framework designed to assess potential lunar landing sites by bringing together planeta...
A highway maintenance technician inspecting a damaged culvert may have immediate access to its location, previous inspection records and photographs through a mobile GIS...
Hitachi is bringing two of its major digital technology businesses together under a new global company, combining approximately 35,000 professionals across 27 countries a...
More than 1,800 development teams from 13 countries have entered a Chinese robotics competition designed to test whether artificial intelligence systems trained in virtua...
Visual Semiconductor and INCERGO are preparing to demonstrate glasses-free three-dimensional displays across six product categories at CES 2027 in Las Vegas, extending a...
A single replacement component can determine whether an expensive piece of heavy equipment remains productive or sits idle for weeks. For construction companies, infrastr...
Intel has agreed to acquire Israeli quantum software developer Classiq, bringing automated quantum algorithm design into a semiconductor business that has spent more than...
Wastewater samples collected from 40 manholes have helped researchers in Japan assess corrosion risk across a sewer network containing thousands of pipe sections. By meas...
Two sets of satellite correction products produced noticeably different positioning results across an international monitoring network, despite both being used with advan...
Building a landing pad on the Moon presents an unusual civil engineering problem. The structure must withstand rocket exhaust, protect surrounding equipment from high-vel...
Archer Aviation has outlined plans for three electric air taxi networks across Texas, connecting major airports, business districts and leisure destinations in Dallas–For...
Construction supervisors can now question project drawings, specifications and site records without searching through documents or navigating software menus, following th...
ESAB has introduced a collaborative robotic welding system that can identify weld joints, generate welding paths and adjust its movements as conditions change. Known as R...
Only 8% of industrial decision-makers surveyed by Hitachi say their organisations have reached continuous optimisation and innovation with physical AI, despite 97% report...
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected intelligent transportation technology company Derq to develop and test an AI-powered intersection safety system c...
Renesas Electronics has introduced two industrial microcontrollers operating at up to 600 MHz, combining high-speed real-time processing with embedded magnetoresistive me...
Procore Technologies has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to introduce simulation capabilities into construction project management, allowing teams to examine how w...
Measuring a vehicle’s speed with radar is well established in automated traffic enforcement. Measuring it independently with a second technology, while identifying...
A robot may perform a manufacturing task accurately, but that does not necessarily mean the people working alongside it understand what it will do next. As artificial int...
A robot can learn to follow a route remarkably well in simulation, yet struggle when the physical machine behaves differently from its digital model. Researchers at the U...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is preparing to send a computer weighing approximately 1.18 kg to the lunar surface, where it will attempt to run artificial intelligence appli...
Trimble is introducing a lower-cost configuration of its Earthworks 3D grade control system for excavators, using two DA2 GNSS receivers to make machine control more acce...
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 m² 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...
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