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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. Satel...
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 tribu...
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, electr...
Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a physical location. For governments, infras...
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...
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 e...
Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing problem. Aircraft need to cover long distances...
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...
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...
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 Ph...
Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A...
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, st...
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...
Every gram and watt matters aboard a professional multirotor, making the electronic speed controller between the battery and propulsion motor a surprisingly consequential...
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 c...
Smart cities tend to be described through infrastructure: sensors, communications networks, digital twins, autonomous systems and the data platforms connecting them. Seou...
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 fact...
Engineering simulation is beginning to acquire a second workload alongside the computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and other numerical models that have...
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 th...
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 hi...
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...
The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulati...
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 r...
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 ea...
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...
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 evidenc...
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...
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 infer...
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-lan...
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 downst...
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 abo...
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 w...
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 comparat...
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 conseque...
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 fa...
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 m...
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...
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...
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 si...
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 toward...
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