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The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in ar...
Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining...
The materials that will decide the next decade of infrastructure, from longer-lasting batteries to cleaner-burning fuels and secure supplies of critical minerals, all beg...
Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read r...
Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recordedΒ $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person....
SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, sc...
A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelt...
Every major reconstruction programme in a formerly contested landscape shares an unglamorous precondition. Before roads can be relaid, housing rebuilt or energy infrastru...
A new study out of Shihezi University has quietly shifted the terms of a debate that matters far beyond the laboratory bench. For years the chemical recycling industry ha...
The distance between a robotics laboratory and a live construction site has been shrinking for several years, and the gap is now narrow enough that infrastructure owners,...
For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly fal...
A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in...
Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail When DNV was named to run cybersecurity assurance on the Santiago de los Cabal...
Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over three years, and the timing is the story. The...
Europe is assembling more computing power in a single year than at any point in its history, and the numbers behind that expansion are now large enough to reshape how the...
NETGEAR has released Insight 10.0, the latest generation of its cloud network management platform, and framed it as the starting point for what the company calls AIOps an...
For most of the past decade, the safety function that keeps a mobile robot from hurting the people around it has been anchored by a technology that only ever sees a singl...
The City of The Hague has set out how it believes its coastline should be managed through to the year 2100 and beyond, and for the firms that build and maintain sea defen...
Graitec, the French-headquartered structural software developer and one of the world’s largest Autodesk partners, has set out an artificial intelligence strategy th...
Hydrogen has spent much of the past decade progressing through pilot programmes, demonstration plants and technology validation. The next challenge for the sector is comm...
A research team at Adelaide University has put forward a different answer to a question the mining industry has been spending heavily to solve: how to take people out of...
Fatigue cracking is one of the quiet, expensive realities of owning steel infrastructure, and it rarely arrives at a convenient moment. Much of Europe’s steel railw...
For onshore producers working mature fields, the barrier to higher output is often not what lies in the reservoir but what happens to the oil once it starts moving. Waxy...
UL Solutions has issued the first certification under UL 6260, a framework written specifically for remotely operated robots that inspect and maintain industrial sites wh...
ExOne has launched the S-Print Pro, a compact industrial sand 3D printer built to bring production-grade binder jetting within reach of the small and mid-sized foundries...
Europe’s circular-plastics debate has spent years stuck between two imperfect options. Mechanical recycling is cheap and established, but it struggles with contamin...
Why the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure Might Begin Inside a Second-Hand Shop When the infrastructure sector talks about progress, it tends to talk about what comes...
Insta360 has spent a decade defining the action and panoramic camera categories, and with the Luna Ultra it has stepped into the pocket gimbal segment for the first time....
Teledyne FLIR has spent decades selling thermal imagers as precision instruments judged largely on their optics and detectors. The iXX-Series, introduced in September 202...
A call for conference speakers rarely registers as commercial news, yet the agenda an event chooses to build tends to anticipate where procurement budgets and project spe...
When a major scheme kicks off, the decisions that end up costing the most are rarely the ones that feel weighty at the time. Budgets are stretched, programmes are tighter...
Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion protection of a primer unde...
Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 ton...
Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground an...
For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This yea...
Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the l...
Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of the job and each carrying its...
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have quietly become one of the mo...
Shipping sits in an awkward position in the global decarbonisation story. While road transport has gathered momentum around electrification and construction equipment is...
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