All | 3D Printing | Aviation | Computing | Construction Software | Energy | Robotics | Science | Smart Cities | Smart Construction | Smart Highways | Smart Mobility
Technology News
Volta Trucks unleashes fully electric 7.5 tonne and 12-tonne Volta Zero Trucks
Volta Trucks unleashes fully electric 7.5 tonne and 12-tonne Volta Zero Trucks Volta Trucks, the leading and disruptive full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has revealed the forthcoming 7.5- and 12-tonne Volta Zero variants – the second product family in its ful...
Read more
Iteris wins $3.7m Smart Mobility contract from Orange County Transportation Authority
Iteris wins $3.7m Smart Mobility contract from Orange County Transportation Authority Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a $3.7 million contract from the Orange County Transportation Authority ...
Read more
London EV Show 2022 returning to ExCeL London
London EV Show 2022 returning to ExCeL London The 2nd Annual London EV Show is all set to exceed previous expectations by once again hosting the most-comprehensive EV conference and exhibition for the entire value chain, facilitating quality networking & business matchmaking and presenting all t...
Read more
Aeva 4D LiDAR Technology helping NASA to Map the Moon
Aeva 4D LiDAR Technology helping NASA to Map the Moon Aeva®, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced that NASA’s Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) Instrument project, a LiDAR-based mobile terrain-mapping and navigation system designed to suppor...
Read more
Sapphire Optical Fibre could lead to Cleaner Energy and Air-Travel
Sapphire Optical Fibre could lead to Cleaner Energy and Air-Travel The work, published in the journal Optics Express, uses a sapphire optical fibre – a thread of industrially grown sapphire less than half a millimetre thick – which can withstand temperatures over 2000°C. When light is injected onto...
Read more
Battery Chemistry inspiring Carbon Capture at Berkeley Labs
Battery Chemistry inspiring Carbon Capture at Berkeley Labs The need for negative emissions technologies to address our climate crisis has become increasingly clear. At the rate that our planet is emitting carbon dioxide – adding about 50 gigatons every year – we will have to remove carbon dioxide a...
Read more
Convoy accelerating Digital Freight Transformation with $260m investment
Convoy accelerating Digital Freight Transformation with $260m investment Convoy, the nation’s leading digital freight network, raised $260 million in new funding, comprised of a $160 million Series E preferred equity round led by Baillie Gifford and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associ...
Read more
Iteris expands USA partnership with Total Traffic and Weather Network
Iteris expands USA partnership with Total Traffic and Weather Network Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, and Total Traffic & Weather Network (TTWN), the iHeartMedia-owned leading provider of traffic, transit and weather informatio...
Read more
Cyngn launches DriveMod Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Integration kit
Cyngn launches DriveMod Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Integration kit Cyngn, a developer of innovative autonomous driving software solutions for industrial and commercial enterprises, today announced the official launch of DriveMod Kit, a turnkey autonomous vehicle solution for which Cyngn filed a pat...
Read more
Pony.ai receives a License in China to operate Autonomous Taxis
Pony.ai receives a License in China to operate Autonomous Taxis Pony.ai, the leading global autonomous driving technology company, announced it is the first and only autonomous driving (AD) company to obtain a taxi license in China. Pony.ai was awarded a permit to operate 100 autonomous vehicles as...
Read more
Anyline launches Tyre Size Scanning for websites to simplify Online Tyre Sales
Anyline launches Tyre Size Scanning for websites to simplify Online Tyre Sales Anyline, a market leader in mobile data capture, today launched a new capability to scan size and dimension information from the side of any vehicle tire. The scanner can be integrated into the websites of tire retailers,...
Read more
Maxar partners with Blackshark.ai to extend 3D Geospatial capabilities
Maxar partners with Blackshark.ai to extend 3D Geospatial capabilities Maxar Technologies, provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, today announced its strategic investment in Blackshark.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered geospatial analytics services...
Read more
Velodyne Lidar showcases Full Stack Vision at XPONENTIAL 2022
Velodyne Lidar showcases Full Stack Vision at XPONENTIAL 2022 Velodyne Lidar, Inc. will demonstrate its innovative lidar sensors and software at XPONENTIAL 2022 in Orlando from April 26 to 28 – booth #2149. Velodyne will highlight how its lidar technology powers autonomous solutions in robotics, ind...
Read more
Kyocera ultra-rugged 5G Smartphones feature Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie App
Kyocera ultra-rugged 5G Smartphones feature Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie App Kyocera, a leader in rugged mobile solutions, has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to integrate the Walkie Talkie application in Microsoft Teams on ultra-rugged 5G Android smartphones. Kyocera’s DuraForce Ultra 5G...
Read more
Esri StoryMaps brings sophisticated Mapping Technology to Storytelling
Esri StoryMaps brings sophisticated Mapping Technology to Storytelling Capturing and sharing life’s experiences today often requires multiple platforms and tools, which can result in disjointed storytelling. To serve creators’ needs to control their dynamic, interactive narratives in one...
Read more
EPC announces new AEC Qualified Lidar Integrated Circuit
EPC announces new AEC Qualified Lidar Integrated Circuit Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) introduces the latest addition to its family of automotive qualified transistors and integrated circuits offering higher performance and smaller solution size for time-of-flight (ToF) lidar applications includi...
Read more
MIT machine-learning system for driverless cars predicts actions of nearby drivers
MIT machine-learning system for driverless cars predicts actions of nearby drivers If a robot is going to navigate a vehicle safely through downtown Boston, it must be able to predict what nearby drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians are going to do next. Behaviour prediction is a tough problem, howeve...
Read more
How Computer Vision can transform Cities into Smart Cities
How Computer Vision can transform Cities into Smart Cities The University of Manchester recently published a paper on the effectiveness of interventions implemented within cities to improve the quality of urban life. Notably, some of the challenges of measuring the impact of these interventions are...
Read more
Digital Services key to overcoming hurdles in the European Rental market
Digital Services key to overcoming hurdles in the European Rental market Many rental companies are struggling to maximize their uptime, meet increased demand and surmount supply chain problems. They can leverage technology and data more to overcome these challenges and drive better decisions, accord...
Read more
TRL Software to replace National Highways Pavement Management System
TRL Software to replace National Highways Pavement Management System National Highways has commissioned TRL Software to provide it with a new pavement asset management system, known as P-AMS. This will be configured upon the cloud-based product iROADS, which is a commercially available off-the-shelf...
Read more
City of Joliet selects Iteris for Smart Mobility, Safety and Sustainability Program
City of Joliet selects Iteris for Smart Mobility, Safety and Sustainability Program Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been selected by the City of Joliet for a smart mobility, safety and sustainability ini...
Read more
Sensata IQ launched for IIoT for Plant Wide Asset Monitoring
Sensata IQ launched for IIoT for Plant Wide Asset Monitoring Sensata Technologies, today announced the new Sensata IQ platform that makes it easy to deploy asset health monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime within manufacturing environments. Online asset monitoring systems have traditionally bee...
Read more
Hydrogen fuel enhancement system reducing emissions for Butler Concrete and Aggregate
Hydrogen fuel enhancement system reducing emissions for Butler Concrete and Aggregate Located in the rapidly developing area of Vancouver Island, Butler Concrete and Aggregate Ltd. has implemented a hydrogen and oxygen fuel enhancement system to their fleet of ready-mix concrete trucks with the help...
Read more
CEMEX combining CO2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel
CEMEX combining CO2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. continues its path to a net-zero future by joining forces with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company ENERTRAG in a milestone project that will combine CO2 with hydr...
Read more
New 3D imaging tool reveals Nanoparticle Lattices with highest resolution
New 3D imaging tool reveals Nanoparticle Lattices with highest resolution From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are opening up pathways to new technologies with properties tuned at the nano...
Read more
Turmeric extract could lead to safer and more efficient fuel cells
Turmeric extract could lead to safer and more efficient fuel cells Researchers at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) and their collaborators from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) in India discovered a novel way to combine curcumin — the substance in turmeric — and gold...
Read more
Virginia DoT selects Iteris for Smart Mobility solutions
Virginia DoT selects Iteris for Smart Mobility solutions Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded an open-ended on-call contract by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for intelligent tr...
Read more
Metso Outotec expands field service capabilities with new digital tools
Metso Outotec expands field service capabilities with new digital tools Metso Outotec has launched a new digital platform and a set of tools to support, streamline and develop its field services. The global implementation of the new Field Service Management Solution (FSM) started in 2021; currently,...
Read more
Intel set to deliver Quantum Computing Test-bed for Argonne’s Quantum Foundry
Intel set to deliver Quantum Computing Test-bed for Argonne’s Quantum Foundry This year, the tech company Intel will deliver its first quantum computing test bed to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the host lab for Q-NEXT, a DOE National Quantum Information Sc...
Read more
Ramirent tests Digital Rental Center solution at the Construction Site
Ramirent tests Digital Rental Center solution at the Construction Site Ramirent is now testing RamiShare, a new app and rental system that will ensure more environmentally friendly and more productive construction sites. The solution involves the establishment of a digital “rental center...
Read more
Xwatch partners with Tak Lee Machinery to expand globally
Xwatch partners with Tak Lee Machinery to expand globally Tak Lee Machinery Company Limited is a leading earthmoving equipment sales and rental service provider in Hong Kong. The company is the sole dealer of Hitachi Construction Machinery in Hong Kong and Macau. The firm is also a distributor of So...
Read more
Electreon announces first Wireless Electric Road for Trucks and Buses
Electreon announces first Wireless Electric Road for Trucks and Buses Electreon, the leading provider of wireless and in-road wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, today announced the one year extension of the Smartroad Gotland pilot project in Sweden. The €2 million ($2.17 million) bu...
Read more
Globalgig chooses Thales for global, resilient, massive IoT deployments
Globalgig chooses Thales for global, resilient, massive IoT deployments Thales announces a new partnership with Globalgig, the Global Connectivity Service Provider, for the world’s first deployment of Thales Adaptive Connect, an innovative solution that supports the smart connection of massive fleet...
Read more
Taking on Sensorfication – one Advanced Driver Assistance System at a time
Taking on Sensorfication – one Advanced Driver Assistance System at a time Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are one of the fastest growing technologies in automotive electronics. A major focus of car manufacturers today is ‘sensorfication’ – utilizing a number of optical sensors (came...
Read more
Procore integrates Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator to drive Sustainability
Procore integrates Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator to drive Sustainability Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of construction management software, today announced a new integration with Building Transparency, a non-profit organization with the mission to enable broad an...
Read more
Teledyne FLIR integrates Chemical Hazard Sensors on Drones and Spot Robot
Teledyne FLIR integrates Chemical Hazard Sensors on Drones and Spot Robot Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced that it has teamed with MFE Inspection Solutions to integrate the FLIR MUVE™ C360 multi-gas detector on Boston Dynamics’ Spot® robot and comme...
Read more
EPC introduces tiny 350 V Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Transistor
EPC introduces tiny 350 V Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Transistor The EPC2050 offers power systems designers a 350 V, 80 mΩ maximum RDS(on), 26 A peak current power transistor in an extremely small chip-scale package. These new devices are ideal for multi-level converters, EV charging, solar power in...
Read more
Bentley Systems acquires ADINA for Simulations and Enhanced Infrastructure Resilience
Bentley Systems acquires ADINA for Simulations and Enhanced Infrastructure Resilience Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced it has acquired Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading developer of finite element analysis so...
Read more
The future of Electric Vehicles – What can we expect?
The future of Electric Vehicles – What can we expect? Although we have seen a stall in the overall car sales market, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are surging, especially in light commercial vehicles, which experienced a rise in sales of 21.4% in 2021. This could be an indicator that more...
Read more
SolidRun announces compact LX2-Lite SOM and CLEARFOG Dev Platform
SolidRun announces compact LX2-Lite SOM and CLEARFOG Dev Platform SolidRun, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance System on Module (SOM) solutions, Single Board Computers (SBC) and network edge solutions, today announces its all-new family of LX2-Lite SOMs and CLEARFOG LX2-Lite De...
Read more
Tata drives the Evolution of the Electric SUV with the CURVV Concept
Tata drives the Evolution of the Electric SUV with the CURVV Concept Defining a new era of SUV design, Tata Motors today showcased its Electric SUV Concept – CURVV. Conceptualised to offer practicality and elegance, all whilst exuding dynamism and unmatched road presence, the Concept CURVV is Tata M...
Read more
Cenex charging up for the 15th anniversary of its Cenex-Low Carbon Vehicle event
Cenex charging up for the 15th anniversary of its Cenex-Low Carbon Vehicle event With diary dates booked and exhibitor sales at pre-pandemic levels, this year’s Cenex-Low Carbon Vehicle (LCV), along with co-located Cenex-Connected Automated Mobility (CAM) is set to be the most significant in the eve...
Read more
Enscape 3.3 release features Real-Time Visualization capabilities
Enscape 3.3 release features Real-Time Visualization capabilities Enscape, a leading provider of real-time visualization, 3D rendering, and virtual reality technology for the global AEC industry, today announced it has released Enscape 3.3. The past few years have challenged architects and designers...
Read more
University Of Michigan Transportation Research Institute teams up with Iteris
University Of Michigan Transportation Research Institute teams up with Iteris Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced its selection by the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) for a smart mobil...
Read more
Telent transforming Radio Communications for 1,500 buses in the UK
Telent transforming Radio Communications for 1,500 buses in the UK Buses and control rooms across the West Midlands are set to receive transformational communications upgrades over the next 12 months, as Telent has been awarded a contract by National Express West Midlands (NXWM) to implement upgrade...
Read more
New research finds Bus Rapid Transit systems improve property values
New research finds Bus Rapid Transit systems improve property values A new study reveals that while few cities in the U.S. have high-quality bus rapid transit systems, those that do see benefits to nearby property values. Researchers investigated the impact of bus rapid transit (or BRT) systems on p...
Read more
Quanergy 3D LiDAR Flow Management to reduce Traffic Delays in San Francisco
Quanergy 3D LiDAR Flow Management to reduce Traffic Delays in San Francisco Quanergy Systems, a leading provider of LiDAR sensors and smart 3D solutions, announced today that The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has deployed Quanergy’s 3D LiDAR Flow Management solution integrate...
Read more
H3 Dynamics teams up with ELID for Autonomous Building Façade Maintenance
H3 Dynamics teams up with ELID for Autonomous Building Façade Maintenance Singapore industrial AI & robotics companies, H3 Dynamics and ELID Technology, have entered a commercial and technical partnership that ties H3 Dynamics’ AI-enabled façade assessments to ELID’s robotic façade repair gondol...
Read more
Kier invests in Procore Technologies to drive their Digital-First Ambitions
Kier invests in Procore Technologies to drive their Digital-First Ambitions Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of construction management software, today announced that Kier Group Plc, the major UK construction and infrastructure services company, has selected its enterprise-ready...
Read more
Harvesting power from Solar Cells after the sun sets
Harvesting power from Solar Cells after the sun sets About 750 million people in the world do not have access to electricity at night. Solar cells provide power during the day, but saving energy for later use requires substantial battery storage. In Applied Physics Letters, by AIP Publishing, resear...
Read more
Teledyne FLIR announces Boson+ Longwave Infrared Thermal Camera Module
Teledyne FLIR announces Boson+ Longwave Infrared Thermal Camera Module Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the Boson+ with thermal sensitivity of 20 millikelvin (mK) or less, making it the most sensitive longwave infrared (LWIR) camera in the market. It shares...
Read more
Scandinavian Unicontrol set to disrupt 3D Machine Control market in Australia
Scandinavian Unicontrol set to disrupt 3D Machine Control market in Australia Unicontrol, a fast-growing disrupter of 3D machine control systems for excavators and wheel loaders, has entered the Australian market to provide a more competitive high-tech solution for companies using excavators and whe...
Read more
Bosch raises the bar for accurate Barometric Pressure sensing
Bosch raises the bar for accurate Barometric Pressure sensing Bosch Sensortec introduces the BMP581, a barometric pressure sensor that couples low power consumption with extreme accuracy to provide altitude tracking in wearables, hearables or IoT devices. This capability makes it ideal for applicati...
Read more
Normalization of Building Data streamlined by Buildings IOT Ontology Alignment Project
Normalization of Building Data streamlined by Buildings IOT Ontology Alignment Project As building owners become increasingly interested in advanced tools to better manage their properties, Buildings IOT released the OAP (Ontology Alignment Project). This open-source ontology includes a data model f...
Read more
Iteris improving Traffic Signal Co-ordination and Timing in Illinois
Iteris improving Traffic Signal Co-ordination and Timing in Illinois Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, announced that it has been selected by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Districts Six through Nine for various tra...
Read more
Analog Devices achieves Cybersecurity Qualification for Battery Management System
Analog Devices achieves Cybersecurity Qualification for Battery Management System Analog Devices, Inc. announced its Wireless Battery Management System (wBMS) is certified to the highest standard of automotive cybersecurity engineering and management. ISO/SAE 21434 is the new standard for cybersecur...
Read more
FedEx and Elroy Air to test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery
FedEx and Elroy Air to test Autonomous Drone Cargo Delivery FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (V...
Read more
Eco-mining for Rare Earth Elements a reality with new technology
Eco-mining for Rare Earth Elements a reality with new technology They’re the driving force behind electric vehicles and crucial to the manufacture of many high-tech products, but while rare earth elements are highly valued across many sectors, they’re extremely hazardous to extract, posing significa...
Read more
Modesto orders 30 Blue Bird Electric School Buses
Modesto orders 30 Blue Bird Electric School Buses Blue Bird Corporation, the leader in electric and low-emission school buses, has received the single largest order of electric school buses from a school district in its history. Modesto City Schools in California purchased 30 zero-emission school bu...
Read more
Turkey orders 100 Vx4 Avolon eVTOL aircraft for Zero Emissions Air Travel
Turkey orders 100 Vx4 Avolon eVTOL aircraft for Zero Emissions Air Travel Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announces that Gözen Holding, one of Turkey’s leading aviation conglomerates and owner of Freebird Airlines, has committed to purchase or lease up to 50 VX4 eVTOL aircraft fr...
Read more
FANUC demonstrates CRX Cobot technology at Modex 2022
FANUC demonstrates CRX Cobot technology at Modex 2022 FANUC America, a world leader in CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs, is demonstrating two new CRX collaborative robots, and a variety of automation solutions for the warehousing and logistics industries at Modex 2022. NEW! CRX Collaborative Robots...
Read more
ePicker announces Anantak powered Autonomous Lift Trucks
ePicker announces Anantak powered Autonomous Lift Trucks ePicker, an elite material handling equipment provider, has teamed with Anantak, a leading robotics company, to power warehouse vehicles such as pallet movers, tuggers, stackers, and forklifts. ePicker’s autonomous pallet mover, powered by Ana...
Read more
Hydrous ethanol dual fuel may help reduce greenhouse gases in the Rail Industry
Hydrous ethanol dual fuel may help reduce greenhouse gases in the Rail Industry Climate change is inspiring many industries to examine how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be reduced. Rail and marine, which together account for about 4% of transportation’s GHG emissions, are a relatively small bu...
Read more
PERI InSite Construction Pressure Monitoring wins major awards
PERI InSite Construction Pressure Monitoring wins major awards The PERI InSite Construction (ISC) Pressure Monitoring Set for formwork systems has won the British Construction Industry Award for Product Innovation of the Year 2021 as well as being recognised in two categories at the Festival of Inno...
Read more
Supramolecular Chemistry promises more efficient perovskite-based Solar Cells
Supramolecular Chemistry promises more efficient perovskite-based Solar Cells Supramolecular chemistry (which deals with multimolecular systems), and in particular halogen bonding, i.e., the intermolecular interaction involving halogen atoms (I, Br and Cl) in organic molecules, can help improve the...
Read more
Komatsu and Anglo American Minas-Rio put RC Mining Bulldozer to work in Brazil
Komatsu and Anglo American Minas-Rio put RC Mining Bulldozer to work in Brazil Komatsu Ltd. today announced that Anglo American Minas-Rio, a major British resource group company, and Komatsu have signed a memorandum of understanding through Komatsu Brazil International Ltda., a wholly owned subsidia...
Read more