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Intelligent AI Site Assessment to Future Moon Missions
Intelligent AI Site Assessment to Future Moon Missions Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed an artificial intelligence framework designed to assess potential lunar landing sites by bringing together planetary imagery, geological observations and geospatial information. Known as LU...
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From Mapping Assets to Managing Operations as Mobile GIS Evolves
From Mapping Assets to Managing Operations as Mobile GIS Evolves A highway maintenance technician inspecting a damaged culvert may have immediate access to its location, previous inspection records and photographs through a mobile GIS application. Recording a new defect is relatively straightforward...
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Hitachi Digital Unites 35,000 Specialists to Expand Industrial AI
Hitachi Digital Unites 35,000 Specialists to Expand Industrial AI Hitachi is bringing two of its major digital technology businesses together under a new global company, combining approximately 35,000 professionals across 27 countries as it expands artificial intelligence applications in industrial...
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From Simulation to Physical Robots: China’s Push for General-Purpose Machine Intelligence
From Simulation to Physical Robots: China’s Push for General-Purpose Machine Intelligence More than 1,800 development teams from 13 countries have entered a Chinese robotics competition designed to test whether artificial intelligence systems trained in virtual environments can adapt to physic...
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Glasses-Free 3D Technology Expands Across Six Display Categories for CES 2027
Glasses-Free 3D Technology Expands Across Six Display Categories for CES 2027 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 development programme that has already included publ...
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The Hidden Costs of Producing Specialized Components for Heavy Equipment
The Hidden Costs of Producing Specialized Components for Heavy Equipment A single replacement component can determine whether an expensive piece of heavy equipment remains productive or sits idle for weeks. For construction companies, infrastructure contractors, and equipment operators, the purchase...
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Intel Acquires Classiq to Advance Commercial Quantum Computing
Intel Acquires Classiq to Advance Commercial Quantum Computing Intel has agreed to acquire Israeli quantum software developer Classiq, bringing automated quantum algorithm design into a semiconductor business that has spent more than a decade developing silicon-based quantum processors. The transact...
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Wastewater DNA Offers New Way to Predict Sewer Pipe Corrosion
Wastewater DNA Offers New Way to Predict Sewer Pipe Corrosion Wastewater samples collected from 40 manholes have helped researchers in Japan assess corrosion risk across a sewer network containing thousands of pipe sections. By measuring bacterial DNA and combining the results with ecological modell...
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GNSS Research Identifies Factors Behind Centimetre-Level Positioning Accuracy
GNSS Research Identifies Factors Behind Centimetre-Level Positioning Accuracy Two sets of satellite correction products produced noticeably different positioning results across an international monitoring network, despite both being used with advanced centimetre-level positioning techniques. In rese...
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Lunar Landing Pads Bring Civil Engineering to the Moon
Lunar Landing Pads Bring Civil Engineering to the Moon Building a landing pad on the Moon presents an unusual civil engineering problem. The structure must withstand rocket exhaust, protect surrounding equipment from high-velocity debris and operate without the water-based cooling systems used at te...
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Archer Aviation Plans Three Texas Air Taxi Networks
Archer Aviation Plans Three Texas Air Taxi Networks Archer Aviation has outlined plans for three electric air taxi networks across Texas, connecting major airports, business districts and leisure destinations in Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston and Austin. The proposal promises substantial reductions in f...
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Procore Brings Voice-Controlled AI to Construction Sites with Meta Glasses Trials
Procore Brings Voice-Controlled AI to Construction Sites with Meta Glasses Trials Construction supervisors can now question project drawings, specifications and site records without searching through documents or navigating software menus, following the launch of Procore AI Go at Groundbreak 2026 on...
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ESAB Introduces ROBBI AI for Adaptive Robotic Welding
ESAB Introduces ROBBI AI for Adaptive Robotic Welding 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 ROBBI AI, the system is designed to automate MIG and TIG welding operations t...
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Hitachi Research Reveals the Challenge of Scaling Physical AI in Industry
Hitachi Research Reveals the Challenge of Scaling Physical AI in Industry Only 8% of industrial decision-makers surveyed by Hitachi say their organisations have reached continuous optimisation and innovation with physical AI, despite 97% reporting some level of adoption. The findings, drawn from mor...
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Derq to Test AI-Powered Crash Prevention at US Intersections
Derq to Test AI-Powered Crash Prevention at US Intersections The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected intelligent transportation technology company Derq to develop and test an AI-powered intersection safety system capable of predicting dangerous traffic conflicts and initiating preve...
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Renesas Brings 600 MHz Processing and MRAM to Industrial Automation
Renesas Brings 600 MHz Processing and MRAM to Industrial Automation Renesas Electronics has introduced two industrial microcontrollers operating at up to 600 MHz, combining high-speed real-time processing with embedded magnetoresistive memory and enhanced hardware security. The RX74M and RX74N are t...
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Procore and NVIDIA Bring Digital Twin Simulation into Construction Planning
Procore and NVIDIA Bring Digital Twin Simulation into Construction Planning Procore Technologies has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to introduce simulation capabilities into construction project management, allowing teams to examine how weather, equipment movements and scheduling disruptions...
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Aeva 4D LiDAR Gains Australian Certification for Automated Speed Enforcement
Aeva 4D LiDAR Gains Australian Certification for Automated Speed Enforcement Measuring a vehicle’s speed with radar is well established in automated traffic enforcement. Measuring it independently with a second technology, while identifying the same vehicle across several lanes of traffic, add...
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Honda Backs Research into Trust Between Humans and Industrial Robots
Honda Backs Research into Trust Between Humans and Industrial Robots 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 intelligence gives industrial machinery greater autonomy, engine...
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Reinforcement Learning Gains Stability Guarantees for Real-World Robotics
Reinforcement Learning Gains Stability Guarantees for Real-World Robotics 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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a...
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HPE Takes High-Performance Computing to the Moon with Astrolab’s Lunar Rover
HPE Takes High-Performance Computing to the Moon with Astrolab’s Lunar Rover 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 applications and high-performance computing benchmar...
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Trimble Expands 3D Excavator Grade Control with Dual DA2 GNSS Receivers
Trimble Expands 3D Excavator Grade Control with Dual DA2 GNSS Receivers 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 accessible to small and medium-sized construction contractors....
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Flying Cars Are Coming – But Who Will Build the Roads in the Sky?
Flying Cars Are Coming – But Who Will Build the Roads in the Sky? 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 manoeuvres that would once have belonged entirely to science fi...
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Cincoze Introduces Modular Power Protection for Industrial Edge Computers
Cincoze Introduces Modular Power Protection for Industrial Edge Computers Industrial computers operating alongside motors, switching equipment and heavy electrical machinery face a persistent reliability problem: electromagnetic interference entering through their power connections. Taiwanese rugged...
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Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions
Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions 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 be tested at full scale before being introduce...
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NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI
NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI 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 operation. These limitations are among the problems German developer NEUR...
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Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete
Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete 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 excessively, an otherwise successful printing operation can...
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The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality
The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal components for vehicle production. During a ten-month pilot in 2025, Figure 02 moved more than 90,000 parts...
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Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography
Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography 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, which converts photographs of recovered rock into structured geolo...
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Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors
Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors 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 uniform quantities, and gaps between loads, changing belt...
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Intel Targets AI Inference Economics with New GPU D-Series and Xeon Infrastructure
Intel Targets AI Inference Economics with New GPU D-Series and Xeon Infrastructure 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: running large artificial intelligence models effic...
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7 Best Drone Mapping Software for Solar Farms in 2026
7 Best Drone Mapping Software for Solar Farms in 2026 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 tracker row propagates construction errors across an entire section. A hotspot ind...
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Emdoor’s Growing Industrial Computing Ambitions
Emdoor’s Growing Industrial Computing Ambitions 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 international industrial computing business. Behind those figures is a manufacturin...
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Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform
Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and supporting equipment arrive in successive deliveries, move between work areas and eventually need to be cou...
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Robotics and AI Bring Self-Driving Scientific Laboratories Closer to Reality
Robotics and AI Bring Self-Driving Scientific Laboratories Closer to Reality 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 a terabyte of data every second. Yet preparing an exp...
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Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure
Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies into an international network of road authorities, engineering organisations and transport...
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Dutch Cycleways Face a New Test as Electric Mobility Changes the Traffic Mix
Dutch Cycleways Face a New Test as Electric Mobility Changes the Traffic Mix 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 still look broadly like bicycles, but no longer necess...
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Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads
Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads Britain’s national mapping agency generated £198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up £4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contributors to that growth was a mapping operation extending far beyond t...
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LiDAR Gives Autonomous Firefighting Drones a Longer View of the Fireground
LiDAR Gives Autonomous Firefighting Drones a Longer View of the Fireground Wildfire aviation has always depended on seeing enough of the fireground to make safe decisions. For an autonomous aircraft carrying suppressant through smoke, across broken terrain and around power lines, that requirement be...
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Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field
Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 34 and G3 Bring Edge Computing Into the Field 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 computing platform increasingly has to work inside vehicles, beside inf...
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Toshiba Cuts the Power Budget for Industrial Digital Isolation
Toshiba Cuts the Power Budget for Industrial Digital Isolation Industrial controllers rarely fail for want of headline-grabbing computing power. More often, their designers are wrestling with quieter problems: electrical noise, different voltage domains, heat, board space and the cumulative power co...
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Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders
Keeping Connected Construction Machinery Online Across Borders A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraulic system and undercarriage do not particularly care which side of...
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9 Best ClockShark and BusyBusy Alternatives for Construction Crews: Verified Clock-In Compared (2026)
9 Best ClockShark and BusyBusy Alternatives for Construction Crews: Verified Clock-In Compared (2026) 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 this, whether it was ClockSh...
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AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You
AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You 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 distinction between those two uses may prove more important than the headline numbers showing how quick...
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Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines
Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensional representation of the physical environment. Now the Singapore Land Authority and Niantic Spatial a...
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Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines
Detroit Tests Cloud-Based Green Lights for Fire Engines Detroit is testing whether existing connected-vehicle and traffic-signal infrastructure can clear intersections for fire engines before they arrive, without adding another layer of roadside or vehicle hardware. A 90-day pilot in the city’...
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Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic
Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicle technology out of controlled demonstrations and into the considerably less predictable environment...
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Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station
Hytera Shrinks TETRA Infrastructure into a 17.5 kg Software-Defined Base Station Critical communications infrastructure has traditionally been difficult to make small. Resilience demands redundancy, radio capacity requires hardware, and remote coverage often brings cabinets, power systems, transmiss...
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Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara
Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara 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 equipment and smaller tools scattered across thousands...
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AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore
AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore Artificial intelligence has acquired something that every construction business understands: a meter. Generative AI systems consume tokens as they process instructions and generate responses. At the scale of an individual engineer as...
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Giving AI a Sense of Place
Giving AI a Sense of Place Artificial intelligence can write software, interpret documents, plan a journey and reason through complicated problems. Ask it to act reliably in the physical world, however, and a more fundamental problem appears. The model needs to know where things actually are, how th...
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Could We Survive Without Oil?
Could We Survive Without Oil? 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 age could continue to provide food, medicine, transport, infrastructure and manufactured goods at any...
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Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From?
Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From? Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Petroleum geologists can compare these compounds with...
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Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine
Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine 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 conventional enough. Excavators and dozers still had to cut, carry, spread and...
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AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround
AI Moves Into the Equipment Rental Walkaround 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 handover. Record360 is applying computer vision to that problem with 360AI, a suite...
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Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project
Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a single operator supervising all three machines. Ferrovial ha...
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Drilling a Mile Down to Build Underground Nuclear Reactors
Drilling a Mile Down to Build Underground Nuclear Reactors 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 drilling industry, an early field test of a nuclear concept that ultima...
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When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board
When the Structure Becomes the Circuit Board Electronic circuits normally arrive as components. They are manufactured separately, mounted on boards, packaged, connected and eventually installed inside the machine or structure they are intended to serve. Researchers at Iowa State University are worki...
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Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels
Coordinating BIM Across Corridors: Managing Interfaces on Roads, Rail and Tunnels BIM coordination on linear infrastructure usually fails at package boundaries, where one team’s scope ends and another’s begins. On Australia’s major road, rail and tunnel corridors, that failure scal...
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Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR
Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground penetrating radar data into the same positioning and mass-data environment increasingly used to map co...
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When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate
When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate 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 dashboard. Someone then has to decide whether the warning deserves investigation, fin...
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Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks
Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks 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, positioned and moved using a shared lifting trailer, forklift o...
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Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying
Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying 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 positioning as conditions demand. Trimble’s new ST30 smart ta...
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Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes
Native Colour Lidar Pushes Drone Mapping to Higher Altitudes Power lines present an awkward problem for aerial surveyors. They are physically small, often surrounded by vegetation and precisely the kind of infrastructure that needs to be mapped accurately over very long distances. Flying lower impro...
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Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026
Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning interior positioning, mobile mapping, GNSS, point-cloud processing, deformation monitoring and subsurf...
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Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneath the bodywork, however, and the arrangement is considerably more interesting. The vehicles are supp...
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