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Zutec QA and defect management software to streamline Thames Tideway Tunnel project
Zutec QA and defect management software to streamline Thames Tideway Tunnel project Construction technology company Zutec Holding AB, has announced that it will supply the BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty (BMB) joint venture with digital quality assurance solutions for the West section...
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Doosan Infracore accelerates Battery Pack business with new prototype
Doosan Infracore accelerates Battery Pack business with new prototype Doosan Infracore has announced that the company has manufactured the battery pack prototype no. 1 that it developed in-house. The prototype is expected to help Doosan Infracore accelerate its battery pack business and motorized pr...
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EIB reports €10 billion investment gap in AI and blockchain in the EU
EIB reports €10 billion investment gap in AI and blockchain in the EU Today, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Commission published a new study on the state of play in artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in the European Union: “Artificial intelligence, blockchain and th...
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Autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service is just 2-3 years away
Autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service is just 2-3 years away “Autonomous cars will be here in 2 years” has been a standard sentence from the industry for the past 5 years or so. Now there is good reason to expect autonomous ride-hailing services to hit our roads within 3 years. So, what has happened in t...
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TerraClear raises $25m for AI Robotic Rock Picker
TerraClear raises $25m for AI Robotic Rock Picker TerraClear, an applied AI and robotics company, announced Series A funding of $25 million led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing the company’s total funding to $38 million. Rocks in fields break machinery, slow precision farming, and take up valuable...
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Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey
Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey Plus, a global provider of self-driving truck technology, announced today the completion of a Silk Road expedition by an autonomous truck powered by the company’s supervised autonomous driving system, PlusDrive. The 4,000-mile long-haul...
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Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices
Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the low power programmable leader, today announced enhancements to its award-winning Lattice sensAI™ solution stack for accelerating AI/ML application development on low power Lattic...
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Esri ArcGIS Platform chosen by Relive Outdoor Activity SaaS App
Esri ArcGIS Platform chosen by Relive Outdoor Activity SaaS App Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, announced today that Relive, a company which developed an app that chronicles outdoor adventures and journeys by letting users relive those moments, is among the latest to shift to ArcGIS...
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Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution
Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution Velodyne Lidar today announced its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution, powered by Bluecity, was named a winner of the 2021 Smart 50 Award, recognizing the solution’s innovation in smart city applications. The awards, present...
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MIT develops slender robotic finger to identify objects underground
MIT develops slender robotic finger to identify objects underground Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects — as long as they’re out in the open, but discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a robot would need fingers that wer...
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Delta launches AX-308E CODESYS-based AS Series Motion Controller
Delta launches AX-308E CODESYS-based AS Series Motion Controller Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions and industrial automation systems, has introduced the AX-308E as the first of its compact, mid-range AX-3 Series PLC motion controllers. It is based on CODESYS, the devel...
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Rio Tinto and Comptech partner for electric vehicle and 5G casting alloys
Rio Tinto and Comptech partner for electric vehicle and 5G casting alloys Rio Tinto and Comptech are partnering to bring a new generation of aluminium alloys to the market for use in advanced technologies such as electric vehicles and 5G antennas. Rio Tinto’s metallurgical experts have designed the...
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Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy
Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed that the Volta Zero will make its Italian debut between 7 and 11 June in Milan. The customer event in Italy comes soon after similar successful French and Spanish ev...
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ADASTEC selects Teledyne FLIR sensors for flowride.ai Autonomous Bus Platform
ADASTEC selects Teledyne FLIR sensors for flowride.ai Autonomous Bus Platform In conjunction with the development of autonomous passenger vehicles, OEMs and innovators are also working on public transport vehicles as part of the larger push to develop an autonomous vehicle ecosystem. One company mak...
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Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment
Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment Electric car sales are increasing every year, more and more cities are using electric buses, and the first generation of electric trucks is hitting the highways — when it comes to electromobility, a lot of the early progress has bee...
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Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything
Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Movandi, a leader in new 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) technology today announced a successful demonstration of mmWave repeaters, delivering on the promise of seamless 5G cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications for th...
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UK Power Networks creates Virtual power station
UK Power Networks creates Virtual power station A ‘virtual power station’ equivalent to the electricity generation of a gas-fired power station, is being created by UK Power Networks. New contracts for energy capacity worth £30 million are being awarded to 17 innovators in the energy, tech and car s...
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Evonik and Farsoon collaborate on high temperature 3D printing materials
Evonik and Farsoon collaborate on high temperature 3D printing materials The specialty chemicals company Evonik and China’s largest SLS 3D printer manufacturer Farsoon are strengthening their collaboration in powder-based 3D printing. Both companies aim to open up market access to new large-sc...
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Beaverswood charging points now include added protection
Beaverswood charging points now include added protection New electric vehicle (EV) charging point solutions from visual communications specialist Beaverswood provide improved levels of protection of installations in industrial, commercial and retail centre car parks across the UK. There are approxim...
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Building a connected construction site
Building a connected construction site Termotex, a construction company in Panama, achieved an amazing 2,000 per cent revenue boost from investing in connected construction technology. Companies all around the world are realising productivity gains from connecting their sites but, closer to home, it...
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What the Electric Vehicle revolution will mean for the UK business
What the Electric Vehicle revolution will mean for the UK business As part of our ongoing effort to understand the needs of the thousands of vehicle-owning companies, both large and small, Allstar commissioned a survey of their members and their attitudes toward electric vehicles (EV). They found th...
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Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car
Designing the world’s first electric flying racing car At Goodwood Speed Week, Airspeeder unveiled to the world the Mk3 racing prototype. This remotely-piloted craft showed the form of the world’s first full-scale and functional electric flying racing car. Today, the production version of this...
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Aston Martin designs immersive extended reality experience with NVIDIA technology
Aston Martin designs immersive extended reality experience with NVIDIA technology Legendary car manufacturer Aston Martin is using the latest virtual and mixed reality technologies to drive new experiences for customers and designers. The company has worked with Lenovo to use VR and AR to deliver a...
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Intel ZF and Mobileye technology chosen by Toyota for driver-assistance solutions
Intel ZF and Mobileye technology chosen by Toyota for driver-assistance solutions ZF and Mobileye, an Intel company, have been chosen by Toyota Motor Corp. to develop advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for use in multiple vehicle platforms starting in the next few years. As part of the agreem...
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Ouster chosen by Balyo for digital LiDAR for Robotic Forklifts
Ouster chosen by Balyo for digital LiDAR for Robotic Forklifts Ouster, Inc., a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive industries, today announced that it has signed a strategic customer agreement with Ba...
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Semtech and Intel collaborate to develop LiDAR technology
Semtech and Intel collaborate to develop LiDAR technology Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance analogue and mixed signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with Intel to develop optical semiconductor platforms for Light Detection and Ranging (LiD...
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Intel and QuTech working on solving Quantum Interconnect bottlenecks
Intel and QuTech working on solving Quantum Interconnect bottlenecks Today, Intel and QuTech – a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research – published key findings in quantum research to address the “interconnect bottleneck”...
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Robotic Research and FPInnovations developing Resource Road Truck Platooning Technology
Robotic Research and FPInnovations developing Resource Road Truck Platooning Technology Robotic Research, a global leader in Automated Driving Systems (ADS), and FPInnovations, a Canadian private non-profit research and development centre, announced their collaboration to develop an off-road truck p...
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Esri partnering with International Community on GIS for Sustainable Development Goals
Esri partnering with International Community on GIS for Sustainable Development Goals Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced its contribution to an open, community-driven partnership working to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals....
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Robots, ships and recycling plants to produce critical EV Battery Metals from seafloor rocks
Robots, ships and recycling plants to produce critical EV Battery Metals from seafloor rocks BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, the acclaimed global architecture firm whose ground-breaking work incorporates innovations in architecture, has collaborated with The Metals Company, a developer of lower-impact batt...
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Autonomous Material Handlers developed by Third Wave Automation and Toyota
Autonomous Material Handlers developed by Third Wave Automation and Toyota Third Wave Automation, Inc. and Toyota Industries Corporation today announced a strategic partnership to produce the next generation of intelligent, fully autonomous material handling vehicles. Autonomous material-handling ve...
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Meet the all new Toyota Proace Electric Van
Meet the all new Toyota Proace Electric Van Toyota is launching its first zero emission, battery electric vehicle in the UK, the Proace Electric medium-duty panel van, adding a powerful new dimension to its Toyota Professional range of light commercial vehicles. The new model signals the company’s c...
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VolvoCE drives towards a carbon neutral future with Hydrogen Fuel Cell Test Lab
VolvoCE drives towards a carbon neutral future with Hydrogen Fuel Cell Test Lab The opening of the first dedicated Fuel Cell Test Lab in Volvo Group, marks a significant advancement in the manufacturer’s ambition to be fossil-free by 2040. As part of the company’s commitment to the Science-Based Tar...
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IoT challenger announces first Non-Cellular 5G Technology
IoT challenger announces first Non-Cellular 5G Technology Wirepas, a Finnish company on a mission to change enterprise IoT, today announces the world’s first purpose-built non-cellular 5G technology, operating on a free global 1.9 GHz spectrum. The new standard lets any enterprise set up and manage...
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Chalmers University of Technology developing rechargeable cement-based batteries
Chalmers University of Technology developing rechargeable cement-based batteries Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building which can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, such a vision could someday be a reality. Research...
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Norway’s biggest landslide disaster proved the value of drones
Norway’s biggest landslide disaster proved the value of drones In disaster situations, first responders often bear the same life-threatening risks as the victims themselves, so DJI’s unmanned first responders greatly increase the chances for success of any rescue operation and save more...
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Robot Exchange secures £500k funding to drive Robotic Process Automation
Robot Exchange secures £500k funding to drive Robotic Process Automation The Robot Exchange has secured a significant £500k investment from leading private equity investment firm, Foresight Group, through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (“MEIF”). The Nottingham-based business supplies Robotic Pr...
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Accuracy reports UK’s electric bus fleet will be the largest in Europe by 2024
Accuracy reports UK’s electric bus fleet will be the largest in Europe by 2024 The UK is set to have the largest electric bus fleet in Europe by 2024, with the number of buses projected to grow by close to 180% from approximately 1,000 to 2,800 vehicles, according to forecasts by Accuracy, the...
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Caterpillar Cat Command autonomous hauler trucks pass the 3 billion tonnes mark
Caterpillar Cat Command autonomous hauler trucks pass the 3 billion tonnes mark Caterpillar announces an additional 1 billion tonnes of material hauled by autonomous trucks using Cat® MineStar™ Command for hauling, surpassing the 3 billion tonnes milestone. This achievement is joined by an ex...
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More Battery Gigafactories needed in Britain to meet 2040 140GWh capacity
More Battery Gigafactories needed in Britain to meet 2040 140GWh capacity The UK must rapidly accelerate the establishment of Gigafactories and new battery technology development, or risk losing domestic car production altogether – according to a report published today by expert manufacturing consul...
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Esri and IBM tackle Climate Change with Call for Code Global Challenge
Esri and IBM tackle Climate Change with Call for Code Global Challenge Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is joining the fourth annual Call for Code Global Challenge. Created by David Clark Cause and launched in partnership with IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and t...
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Intel announces 11th Generation Core H-series mobile processors
Intel announces 11th Generation Core H-series mobile processors The new 11th Generation Intel® Core™ H-series mobile processors (code-named “Tiger Lake-H”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11980HK — the “World’s Best Gaming Laptop Processor.” The Intel Core...
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Eaton DC-DC Converters to power new BEV Electric Trucks
Eaton DC-DC Converters to power new BEV Electric Trucks Power management company Eaton today announced its eMobility business has been awarded a contract to supply a 24-to-12-volt DC-DC converter for use in a commercial heavy-duty battery electric vehicle (BEV) that will power accessories, such as a...
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Tactile Data gathering project aims to collect road data in real-time
Tactile Data gathering project aims to collect road data in real-time Tactile Mobility, the leading tactile data and virtual sensing technology company for the automotive industry, municipalities and road authorities, insurance industry and more, today launched the world’s first nationwide tactile d...
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Autonomous mobile EffiBOTs rolled out at SEAT factory in Barcelona
Autonomous mobile EffiBOTs rolled out at SEAT factory in Barcelona SEAT has introduced new autonomous robots to work collaboratively with its staff at the Martorell factory. The autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) – also known as EffiBOTs – work autonomously yet collaboratively with the workforce at SEA...
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Velodyne Lidar launches AI Intelligent Infrastructure solution with Bluecity
Velodyne Lidar launches AI Intelligent Infrastructure solution with Bluecity Velodyne Lidar today launched its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution designed to solve some of the most challenging and pervasive infrastructure problems. This new solution combines Velodyne’s award-winning lidar sensors a...
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DJI helps Paradise rebuild in California
DJI helps Paradise rebuild in California Charles Brooks slung his pick-axe into the soil. It was a simple job, levelling some ground for landscaping. (He’s also pretty handy with an Enterprise drone, and we’ll get to that shortly.) It felt good. That’s because it wasn’t just any pick-axe, and it was...
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Grundfos show approval for high-efficiency IE5 motors for pump solutions globally
Grundfos show approval for high-efficiency IE5 motors for pump solutions globally It is said that as much as half of the world’s electricity is consumed by motors. Motor-driven systems in the industry sector alone consumes 64% of the electric energy, while the commercial sector consumes 20% and the...
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MIT Physicists discover novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off
MIT Physicists discover novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of “bits” to represent and encode that image. Most transistors today are made from s...
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5G goes long distance with multi-gigabit extended-range 5G over mmWave
5G goes long distance with multi-gigabit extended-range 5G over mmWave UScellular, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Ericsson and Inseego today announced the companies have successfully achieved a 5G extended-range milestone over millimeter Wave (mmWave) on a commercial network. This milestone was accomp...
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Ultra long range detection of dark objects enables safer night driving
Ultra long range detection of dark objects enables safer night driving Aeva Technologies, Inc., a leader in next generation 4D LiDAR sensing and perception systems, announced today that its industry-first 4D LiDAR now delivers beyond 500m detection range, significantly enhancing its previous perform...
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Samsung releases 2.5D I-Cube4 for high-performance applications
Samsung releases 2.5D I-Cube4 for high-performance applications Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the immediate availability of its next-generation 2.5D packaging technology Interposer-Cube4 (I-Cube4), leading the evolution of chip pa...
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CapStone Holdings launches GameAbove Mobility to drive Future Transportation
CapStone Holdings launches GameAbove Mobility to drive Future Transportation CapStone Holdings Inc. today announced a new investment division – GameAbove Mobility – to focus capital and strategic partnerships with established, innovative companies creating the next generation of mobility solutions,...
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Outsight introduces the Augmented LiDAR Box with pre-processing software engine
Outsight introduces the Augmented LiDAR Box with pre-processing software engine Outsight, the pioneer of 3D Spatial Intelligence solutions, announced today the launch of a game-changing product: the Augmented LiDAR Box (ALB). It’s the first real-time LiDAR Software Engine that allows application dev...
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Volta Trucks accelerates its ambitious Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy
Volta Trucks accelerates its ambitious Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has announced its Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy as it delivers on its vision of decarbonising the logistic industry, offering cleaner air and safer street...
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Saietta partners with Padmini VNA for electric motor sales in India
Saietta partners with Padmini VNA for electric motor sales in India Saietta Group, a specialist in Axial Flux Technology (AFT) electric motors, has today announced a landmark partnership agreement with Padmini VNA, one of India’s premier Tier 1 automotive suppliers. The commercial agreement will see...
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OmniVision reduces Camera Design Complexity with OAX4000 ASIC Image Processor
OmniVision reduces Camera Design Complexity with OAX4000 ASIC Image Processor OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the new OAX4000, a companion image signal processor (ISP) that offers design flexibility for next-generation automot...
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Valmont acquiring Agritech AI and Machine Learning company Prospera Technologies
Valmont acquiring Agritech AI and Machine Learning company Prospera Technologies Valmont Industries, Inc., a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment and services for agriculture, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreemen...
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Argonne National Laboratory helps Caterpillar simulate heavy-duty engine designs
Argonne National Laboratory helps Caterpillar simulate heavy-duty engine designs Heavy-duty diesel engines still power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States. Engineers are working to improve the fuel efficiency of these engines while...
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Cooper Tire releases Discoverer Rugged Trek all-terrain tyres
Cooper Tire releases Discoverer Rugged Trek all-terrain tyres With summer road trip season fast approaching, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company has announced the U.S. launch of the new Discoverer® Rugged Trek™ tire, which is now available for consumers nationwide. An all-season pickup truck and...
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TORSUS PRAETORIAN rugged off-road 4×4 bus gets technical upgrades
TORSUS PRAETORIAN rugged off-road 4×4 bus gets technical upgrades TORSUS, manufacturer of the world’s toughest, heavy-duty off-road buses, today announces a comprehensive range of all-new 2021 technical updates for its flagship vehicle, the TORSUS PRAETORIAN. Designed to transport personn...
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Ford accelerates investment in Solid-State Batteries
Ford accelerates investment in Solid-State Batteries Ford Motor Company today announced it is growing its investment in Solid Power, an industry-leading producer of all-solid-state batteries for EVs. Initially investing in Solid Power in 2019, Ford is making an additional equity investment to help a...
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XAIS and EyeVi partner to deliver unique digital asset management to the UK
XAIS and EyeVi partner to deliver unique digital asset management to the UK XAIS Asset Management has joined forces with EyeVi Technologies to bring a unique digital asset management capability to UK-based highway authorities – XAIS Infrastructure Vision (XAIS iV). XAIS is already renowned for...
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Strada GroundApp helps with construction project calculations
Strada GroundApp helps with construction project calculations GroundApp is a one-stop solution supporting a broad range of site calculations and quantity estimations in construction projects. For on-site usage, it acts as a perfect replacement for expensive tools like AutoCAD. It is aimed at site en...
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Manufacturing technology innovations that advanced the Construction Industry
Manufacturing technology innovations that advanced the Construction Industry The history of manufacturing can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution during the 19th century, where raw materials were turned into finished goods. It’s safe to say that technology has advanced quite a bit since the...
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Velodyne LiDAR selected as exclusive supplier for FF91 Luxury Electric Vehicle
Velodyne LiDAR selected as exclusive supplier for FF91 Luxury Electric Vehicle Velodyne Lidar today announced it has been selected by Faraday Future as the exclusive supplier of lidar for Faraday’s flagship FF 91 all-electric vehicle (EV). Velodyne’s solid state Velarray H800 lidar sensors will powe...
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