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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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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised instruments are being adapted to fly aboard commercial UAV platforms. G...
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The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other
The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concept involving the City of Hamburg, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Yunex Traffic, TraffGO Road...
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US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records
US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential moment for the American unmanned aircraft market. On the final day of the event, a new US tariff regime...
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CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department
CoreWeave Takes Physical AI Into the Engineering Department CoreWeave has launched Physical AI Field Engineering, taking specialists with backgrounds in automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering into customer teams to build machine-learning models around the test data, simulations, sensors an...
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Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory
Coulson Turns Aerial Firefighting Operations Into an Innovation Laboratory Aerial firefighting technology has an awkward development problem. New sensing systems, retardants and mission tools can be engineered and tested independently, but ultimately they have to work together aboard aircraft operat...
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Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring
Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site can generate data from robotic total stations, GNSS receivers, geotechnical instruments, structural s...
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AI Data Centres Start Following the Power
AI Data Centres Start Following the Power The enormous build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure has created an awkward engineering problem. GPUs can be manufactured and servers assembled considerably faster than new electrical capacity can be connected to them. Lektra is approaching that...
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Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations
Eclipse Space Sets Out a New Model for Customer-Owned Satellite Constellations Owning a satellite is one thing. Owning the communications network, spacecraft, ground infrastructure and operational capability behind an entire constellation is considerably harder. Eclipse Space is building its busines...
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When the Robot Is the Easy Part
When the Robot Is the Easy Part 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 deployment. Alongside the distinctive quadruped machine, the company has accumulated something increas...
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Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm
Urban Energy Planning Gets a Real-World Algorithm Finding somewhere to put a new power plant or utility-scale battery inside a city is partly an electrical engineering problem. It is also a question of zoning, noise, land availability, historic buildings, tourism, development policy and what the peo...
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Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase
Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Jacobs appointed to lead consenting and Development Consent Order work for EnergyPathways’ MESH projec...
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Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model
Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model 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 platform designed from the outset for architects and AI agents to work on the sam...
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ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge
ASTM Moves Standards Upstream as Emerging Technologies Converge ASTM International has reorganised its emerging technology work around a much broader remit, replacing its Advanced Manufacturing Division with a Critical and Emerging Technologies Division covering fields ranging from artificial intell...
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When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem
When Worn Traffic Signs Become an AI Problem 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. Researchers from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Kyung Hee University an...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium developer community it acquired in 2024. Located at the Curtis Center, th...
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Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud
Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud 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 dispatched loads each day, track around 60,000 trucks and support...
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Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations Commercial drone technology has spent much of the past decade proving that aircraft can fly further, carry better sensors and automate increasingly complex missions. At Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, three companie...
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Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space
Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space 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. Satellite radar now makes that early movement measurable across entire assets and corridor...
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Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution
Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution 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 tributaries feed into a waterway affected by dense development, s...
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Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks
Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks Railway engineers in South Korea have demonstrated a removable thermal barrier that KRRI says reduced summer rail temperatures by as much as 10.9°C, without water, electrical power or permanent modification to the track. Developed by the Kor...
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Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure
Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a physical location. For governments, infrastructure operators and heavily regulated businesses, where an...
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Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory
Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory 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 comes OpenBridge, an open-source development environment intended...
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Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets America’s Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap
Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets America’s Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap 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 elements required for high-performance permanent magnets...
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Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping
Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing problem. Aircraft need to cover long distances efficiently while still capturing conductors, structural ed...
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The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri
The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri 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 years. Those are the four constraints behind the Fermi Explorer Mission, a n...
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Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility
Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility AEye’s 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 Artemis astronauts across the Moon’s South Pole region. The multi-...
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Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable?
Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable? 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 Physics Laboratory in June 2026 sits at the heart of one of fusion energy’...
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Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating
Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A drywall estimator measuring a wall is not ultimately in...
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Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City
Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City 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, storm damage and public spaces can be processed into new image...
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Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform
Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform 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 truck became part of a digital road-pricing sys...
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Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion
Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion Every gram and watt matters aboard a professional multirotor, making the electronic speed controller between the battery and propulsion motor a surprisingly consequential piece of hardware. Allient has now brought gallium nitride...
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John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar
John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar 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 create repetitive geometry and obstruct satellite signals. Branches, fo...
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Seoul’s Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test
Seoul’s Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test Smart cities tend to be described through infrastructure: sensors, communications networks, digital twins, autonomous systems and the data platforms connecting them. Seoul’s Magok District had much of that foundation when the city tried...
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