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Construction supervisors can now question project drawings, specifications and site records without searching through documents or navigating software menus, following th...
Only 8% of industrial decision-makers surveyed by Hitachi say their organisations have reached continuous optimisation and innovation with physical AI, despite 97% report...
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...
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...
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...
Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and supporting equipment arrive in successive deliveries, move bet...
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...
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...
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...
Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical enviro...
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...
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...
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...
Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurement and the freedom of satellite...
Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning interior positioning, mobile mapping...
CoreWeave has launched Physical AI Field Engineering, taking specialists with backgrounds in automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering into customer teams to build...
Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site can generate data from roboti...
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 depl...
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 plat...
ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Te...
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. Research...
Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium devel...
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 dispa...
Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A...
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...
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...
The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulati...
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...
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...
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