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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model while the operator watches from a remote operations centre and keeps an eye on two other machine...
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Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2
Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysis can deliver. Rivers, catchment boundaries and the direction wa...
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Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line The launch of a single handheld radio rarely counts as a strategic event, yet the release of Hytera’s PDC580 dual-mode rugged radio touches on a question that sits near the top of the agenda for infrastructure owners, tr...
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MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less telling than the reasoning behind it. Bedfordshire-based MIDA Civils has added fifteen Kubota compact mach...
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Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office rather than on site. Before a single conduit is bent or a light fixture wired, an estimator has to in...
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Quarterhill to Triple Tolling Revenue in Conduent Acquisition
Quarterhill to Triple Tolling Revenue in Conduent Acquisition The agreement for Quarterhill to acquire substantially all of the assets of Conduent’s tolling solutions business is one of the more consequential pieces of consolidation the electronic tolling sector has seen in several years, and...
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Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself than for the type of project it has been bought to serve. Bennetts Cranes has raised the crane on a ti...
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ASME’s GDTP 2018 Certification Raises the Bar on Precision Engineering Skills
ASME’s GDTP 2018 Certification Raises the Bar on Precision Engineering Skills The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has updated its Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional credential, aligning it with the current ASME Y14.5-2018 standard and repositioning a decades-old quali...
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Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technology itself. Solar-powered studs that project their own LED light have been proven on UK roads for the...
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Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge
Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge Esri has published The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, a guide arguing that geographic information systems belong across an entire university rather than inside a handful o...
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Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments Modern developments, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, rely on a wide range of equipment to ensure projects run smoothly and efficiently. From construction machinery and storage systems to utility infrastructure and maintenanc...
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Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App Commercial trucks are the lifelines of modern economies, hauling everything from concrete and steel to consumer goods. The sheer scale and mass of these vehicles provide significant advantages over other transportation mo...
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HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in artificial intelligence. As autonomous vehicle t...
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INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks 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 them, yet the instruments available to judge w...
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Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case of Big Joe Forklifts, the milestone is more useful read as a market sign...
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BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne of aggregate up a site access road. That settlement has now ....
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Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research
Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research 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 begin life inside a simulation. Designing them at the atomic level has long...
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The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist 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 road markings and signage clearly. On British roads as they currently...
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How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure
How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure Smart street lighting projects should connect lighting design, communication methods, monitoring platforms and handover planning before installation. Road lighting is no longer only about installing luminaires and switch...
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How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier 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. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: much of the road safety...
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World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence
World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence The single most consequential number in any road or railway scheme is set long before a machine turns earth. It is the early cost estimate that decides whether a project enters the pipeline, how it is compared against riv...
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SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, scientific and engineering settings. On its surface this is a competiti...
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From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market 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 smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deploymen...
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Amman Opens its Kerbside to Private Investment for Citywide Smart Parking
Amman Opens its Kerbside to Private Investment for Citywide Smart Parking Amman Vision for Investment and Development (AVID), the investment arm of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), has invited local and international firms to submit expressions of interest and prequalification documents for a c...
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Uzbekistan Backs New Tashkent International Airport with 35-Year Aviation PPP
Uzbekistan Backs New Tashkent International Airport with 35-Year Aviation PPP Uzbekistan has committed to one of Central Asia’s largest single pieces of transport infrastructure, signing a public-private partnership project finance agreement for the construction and long-term operation of the...
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Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029 The Zimbabwean government has moved its most ambitious urban transport plan in a generation from aspiration towards execution, granting National Project Status to a US$3 billion light rail scheme intended to reconnect Greater Harare by rail fo...
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AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find
AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find Every major reconstruction programme in a formerly contested landscape shares an unglamorous precondition. Before roads can be relaid, housing rebuilt or energy infrastructure restored, the ground itself has to be certified safe,...
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Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals
Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals 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 has chased a single number: how much high-value liquid a catalyst ca...
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China’s Coal Mining Reinvention to go on Show at Beijing’s CICEME Expo 2026
China’s Coal Mining Reinvention to go on Show at Beijing’s CICEME Expo 2026 China mines and burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, and the way it chooses to modernise that output will shape equipment markets, safety standards and emissions trajectories far beyond its own bo...
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How Deep Should you Compact Soil Before Laying Pavers?
How Deep Should you Compact Soil Before Laying Pavers? Getting your soil depth wrong before laying pavers is one of the most common mistakes DIYers make, and it’s also one of the most expensive to fix after the fact. If the base isn’t compacted deeply enough, pavers shift, crack, and sin...
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Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027
Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027 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, contractors and plant manufacturers can no longer...
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Uzbekistan’s Coatings, Concrete and Chemical Shows Converge on Tashkent
Uzbekistan’s Coatings, Concrete and Chemical Shows Converge on Tashkent For three days in September 2026, a single exhibition hall in Tashkent will host what amounts to an entire construction materials supply chain under one roof. The Uzbekistan Coatings Show, Uzbekistan Concrete Show and Uzbe...
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The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against the job, negotiated a price with a dealer, arranged finance and took delivery, confident their const...
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Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable throughput all have a direct impact on project productivity, m...
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Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer 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 falling out of step with a world that never stops moving. Vanto...
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Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks 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 the San Francisco Bay Area. Monotch and the Contra Costa Tr...
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KΓ€rcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment
KΓ€rcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment When two of Germany’s largest family-owned equipment manufacturers agree to run their professional machines off the same battery, the significance reaches well beyond the two brands involved. KΓ€rcher and STIHL have co...
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RoSPA Awards Crowns Construction as the Safety Profession Sounds the Alarm
RoSPA Awards Crowns Construction as the Safety Profession Sounds the Alarm When RoSPA renamed its most senior trophy after Lord Jordan of Bournville and handed it to a construction, housebuilding and property group, the symbolism was hard to miss. Construction remains the sector that kills more Brit...
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Ghana to Turns its Growth Story into Bankable Projects at GITW 2026
Ghana to Turns its Growth Story into Bankable Projects at GITW 2026 For three days in July, The Palms Convention Center in Accra becomes the point where West Africa’s investment narrative is meant to stop being a pitch and start becoming paper. The seventh Ghana Investment & Trade Week (GI...
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The Green Steel Bottleneck Is Demand, Not Supply
The Green Steel Bottleneck Is Demand, Not Supply For most of the past decade, the argument over decarbonising steel has been framed as a supply problem: how to build the hydrogen plants, secure the renewable power and prove that iron ore can be reduced without coal. Northern Europe has now la...
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Cybersecurity Moves to the Front of the Line on the Caribbean’s First Monorail
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 Caballeros monorail, the more revealing detail was not the win itself but the shape of the contract. Independent cyber risk management...
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Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy
Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy 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 Nasdaq-listed engineering software company (BSY) is m...
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Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment
Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment A memorandum of understanding between two event companies would not, on its own, register as infrastructure news. What makes the agreement signed in Dubai between MIE Events and Niche Ideas worth the attention of contract...
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Fluor Reaches Major Milestone on Chicago’s $2.1 Billion Transit Modernisation
Fluor Reaches Major Milestone on Chicago’s $2.1 Billion Transit Modernisation The most consequential fact about the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red and Purple Line Modernization is not its price tag, though at $2.1 billion it stands as the largest completed capital project in the agency...
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Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race
Power, Ports, Exaflops and Europe’s AI Infrastructure Race 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 continent thinks about industrial capacity, energy and sovereign...
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Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet
Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics of moving rock as it does about any one machine. Greenstone Resources Corporation has taken deliver...
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Krandienst SΓΌderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2
Krandienst SΓΌderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2 When Krandienst SΓΌderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz, the transaction looked, on paper, like a routine fleet swap: a 15-strong family firm in Nort...
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Granite Joint Venture Advances Major Bridge Renewal in Reno
Granite Joint Venture Advances Major Bridge Renewal in Reno A mid-size bridge award in northern Nevada rarely moves markets, but the selection of a Granite-led joint venture to steer the replacement of Reno’s Keystone Avenue Bridge is worth reading as more than a local infrastructure story. Ke...
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Georgiaβs Corridor Test: Converting Geography into Reliable, Bankable Infrastructure
Georgiaβs Corridor Test: Converting Geography into Reliable, Bankable Infrastructure Georgia has spent much of the past three years being described as a bridge, a crossroads and a gateway, and at Bituroad 2026 in Tbilisi one of the countryβs top lawyers argued that none of those labels is worth much...
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Sofia Airport’s β¬450m Bond Marks a First for Bulgarian Infrastructure Finance
Sofia Airport’s β¬450m Bond Marks a First for Bulgarian Infrastructure Finance Vasil Levski Sofia Airport has closed a β¬450 million financing package to build a new Terminal 3 and modernise its existing facilities, with construction due to begin in the autumn of 2026. The deal matters well beyo...
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Africa’s Carbon Markets to Shift from Readiness to Delivery at CMAS 2026
Africa’s Carbon Markets to Shift from Readiness to Delivery at CMAS 2026 Carbon finance is moving out of the negotiating room and into the deal room, and the Carbon Markets Africa Summit is positioning the continent for the transition. The global market has spent the better part of a decade ar...
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ITS World Congress 2027 Gains Early International Backing
ITS World Congress 2027 Gains Early International Backing The pace at which exhibition space is being reserved for the 2027 ITS World Congress says more about the state of the intelligent transport market than any promotional headline could. With more than a quarter of the available floor at Birming...
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ULMA’s 400-Tonne Formwork Package Keeping SΓ£o Paulo Bridge on Schedule
ULMA’s 400-Tonne Formwork Package Keeping SΓ£o Paulo Bridge on Schedule Cable-stayed bridges tend to earn their attention once the cables are strung and the deck is soaring, but the economics of building one are settled far earlier, in the temporary structures that shape the concrete, carry its...
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Exploring Bio-Binders and Ecosystem Collaboration
Exploring Bio-Binders and Ecosystem Collaboration The case for asphalt innovation has never been stronger. With bitumen-based asphalt accounting for over 95% of the UKβs roads, and bitumen road binders emitting ~530kg of CO2 per tonne, the environmental cost is unsustainable. The financial aspect is...
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Best UK Fire Risk Assessment Companies in 2026
Best UK Fire Risk Assessment Companies in 2026 Choosing the best fire risk assessment company is about far more than comparing prices. A professional provider should help you identify fire risks, meet your legal obligations, and improve fire safety across your premises while ensuring your business r...
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London Build Scales up to Excel for UK Construction
London Build Scales up to Excel for UK Construction London Build’s decision to leave Olympia for Excel London after a decade in West Kensington is more than a change of postcode. It is a statement about where the centre of gravity in the UK’s built environment calendar now sits, and abou...
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Why Pole Foundation Planning Matters in Road Lighting Projects
Why Pole Foundation Planning Matters in Road Lighting Projects Road lighting failures are rarely caused by the luminaire itself. More often, long-term problems begin below ground, where foundation design, anchor bolt alignment and site preparation determine whether a lighting installation remains sa...
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When You Need a Personal Injury Lawyer and How the Process Works
When You Need a Personal Injury Lawyer and How the Process Works St. Louis is a city where busy highways, thriving businesses, construction projects, and active neighborhoods bring opportunity but also the potential for unexpected accidents. When a serious injury occurs, the impact often extends far...
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NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs
NETGEAR Takes On Cisco and Extreme With AI Network Management for SMEs 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 and, eventually, AI-defined networking for small and medium-s...
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Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One
Certified 3D Safety Reaches the Robot Floor with Sonair ADAR One 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 single horizontal slice of the world. The 2D laser scanner, mounted lo...
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