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New Polymer can adapt to high and low temperature extremes
New Polymer can adapt to high and low temperature extremes The modern world is filled with synthetic polymers, long-chained molecules designed by scientists to fill all manner of applications. Researchers at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed two closely related polymers that respond dif...
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HighRAP research project paving the way to understand Asphalt Recycling
HighRAP research project paving the way to understand Asphalt Recycling In spring, not only snowdrops and crocuses sprout, but also construction sites on Swiss roads. Repair work, patching and renewal is everywhere. Some of the old asphalt from the Swiss road network is being recycled, but around 75...
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Smart Quarry Site is scheduled to be released by Komatsu
Smart Quarry Site is scheduled to be released by Komatsu If you are you looking for a tool that can improve the productivity and fuel efficiency of your quarry and heavy construction equipment that will allow you to monitor and improve workplace safety in real time while reducing overall emissions o...
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WJ Group innovates with new £500k Accelerated Product Tester
WJ Group innovates with new £500k Accelerated Product Tester WJ Group has invested over £500,000 to install its Accelerated Product Tester, an advanced piece of equipment that can assess the durability and performance over time of various highway maintenance and improvement products. Traditionally t...
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Kistler debuts direct Weight Enforcement and Bridge Protection at World Road Congress
Kistler debuts direct Weight Enforcement and Bridge Protection at World Road Congress Kistler’s advanced Weigh In Motion (WIM) technology will be center-stage at the PIARC World Road Congress in Prague (Czech Republic) from 2 to 6 October 2023. The Swiss measurement technology expert will present it...
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Iridium Satellite Connectivity to connect XCMG Heavy Equipment
Iridium Satellite Connectivity to connect XCMG Heavy Equipment Iridium Communications Inc., a leading provider of global voice and data satellite communications, announced today that Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), a leading global heavy original equipment manufacturer (OEM), will deploy...
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Custom Mass Multiplication Circuits to revolutionize AI Computation
Custom Mass Multiplication Circuits to revolutionize AI Computation In a ground-breaking leap forward for artificial intelligence and computational efficiency, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has officially approved Gigantor Technologies‘ Patent Number 11,748,061, detaili...
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UPS Flight Forward authorized to operate Matternet Delivery Drones BVLOS
UPS Flight Forward authorized to operate Matternet Delivery Drones BVLOS Matternet, the developer of the world’s leading urban drone delivery system, today announced that its partner, UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF), a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS (United Parcel Service), received approval by the Feder...
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Cleaning contaminated water with 3D-printed living material
Cleaning contaminated water with 3D-printed living material Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of material that could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants from water. Dubbed an “engineered living material,” it is a 3D-printed...
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Hilti upgrades their innovative EXO-S Exoskeleton
Hilti upgrades their innovative EXO-S Exoskeleton Hilti has launched a new and improved version of its innovative wearable EXO-O1 skeleton, the EXO-S, offering relief for above shoulder level tasks and with broad suitability across many applications. Designed and produced in conjunction with Ottoboc...
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MIT develops long-distance, low-power Underwater Communication
MIT develops long-distance, low-power Underwater Communication MIT researchers have demonstrated the first system for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit signals across kilometre-scale distances. This technique, which the researchers began developing several y...
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Is Britain ready for Smart City Technologies?
Is Britain ready for Smart City Technologies? It’s no secret that smart technology and artificial intelligence are becoming more widespread. With 54% of the world’s population living in cities, a figure predicted to rise to 66% by 2050, there is a clear need for technological advancements to keep up...
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PreAct Mojave Flash LiDAR now available at Amazon and DigiKey
PreAct Mojave Flash LiDAR now available at Amazon and DigiKey PreAct Technologies, an Oregon-based developer of near-field flash LiDAR technology, today announced the availability of its Mojave LiDAR, a high-performance, low-cost sensor solution to address a variety of applications including smart c...
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Teledyne LeCroy high-definition Oscilloscope supports Serial Data technologies
Teledyne LeCroy high-definition Oscilloscope supports Serial Data technologies Teledyne LeCroy, a worldwide leader in advanced oscilloscopes and a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the launch of their new WaveMaster 8000HD high-bandwidth, high-definition oscillosco...
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Sony announces ILX-LR1 professional camera for industrial applications
Sony announces ILX-LR1 professional camera for industrial applications Today, Sony announces the launch of the new ILX-LR1, an interchangeable lens camera designed for industrial use with approximately a 61-megapixel 35 mm full-frame image sensor. With high resolution and in a lightweight, compact f...
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Autonomous Vehicles set to take over Airports
Autonomous Vehicles set to take over Airports The aviation industry, including ground handling operations, has been increasingly focusing on enhancing efficiency through automation. The 35th IATA Ground Handling Conference (IGHC) emphasised the significance of digitalisation and automation in this s...
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AYRO Vanish celebrates successful compliance with rigorous safety requirements
AYRO Vanish celebrates successful compliance with rigorous safety requirements AYRO, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of electric, purpose-built delivery vehicles and solutions for micro-distribution, micro-mobility, and last-mile delivery, announces the 2023 AYRO Vanish has successfully completed...
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Arduino bridging gap between Edge Hardware and Cloud Infrastructure with AWS
Arduino bridging gap between Edge Hardware and Cloud Infrastructure with AWS Arduino, an open-source hardware pioneer with 32 million active developers worldwide, today announced it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) to deliver enterprise-grade Arduino PRO products that w...
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New report from DJI Agriculture highlights advanced Farming Techniques
New report from DJI Agriculture highlights advanced Farming Techniques DJI Agriculture, a global leader in facilitating agricultural innovation through drone technology, today reveals the findings of the DJI Agriculture Drone Insight Report 2022/23. “DJI Agriculture strives to enhance the efficiency...
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Precisely joins Overture Maps Foundation to power Global Open Map Dataset
Precisely joins Overture Maps Foundation to power Global Open Map Dataset Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced its membership to the Overture Maps Foundation. Founded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom in 2022, the foundation recently launched2 its f...
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RealWear launches Next-Gen Wearable with Safety, AI, Thermal Vision and 5G
RealWear launches Next-Gen Wearable with Safety, AI, Thermal Vision and 5G RealWear, Inc., the pioneer of hands-free wearable computers for frontline workers, announced today the launch of its next generation Intrinsically Safe (IS) headset, RealWear Navigator® Z1. Built for productivity and safety...
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2200V Dual Silicon Carbide MOSFET delivers efficient and smaller Industrial Equipment
2200V Dual Silicon Carbide MOSFET delivers efficient and smaller Industrial Equipment Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has developed “MG250YD2YMS3,” the industry’s first 2200V dual silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET module for industrial equipment. The new module has a drain current (D...
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Empa researchers promise a Rechargeable Revolution
Empa researchers promise a Rechargeable Revolution Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere: from smartphones and laptops to cars and even satellites. It is currently our most mature battery technology. Yet it is not ideal for many applications. Lithium-ion batteries lose capacity with every charge and...
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Significantly faster broadband on the way for driverless cars and drone fleets
Significantly faster broadband on the way for driverless cars and drone fleets Unparalleled speed, capacity and reliability of new fibre broadband technology, invented by UCL researchers, could provide connectivity needed for applications of the future such as driverless cars and drone fleets. The s...
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Quantum devices slow down simulated Chemical reaction 100 billion times
Quantum devices slow down simulated Chemical reaction 100 billion times Scientists at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, used a quantum computer to engineer and directly observe a process critical in chemical reactions by slowing it down by a factor of 100 billion times. Joint lead r...
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Embedded Industrial Computers from Cincoze powering Smart Logistics
Embedded Industrial Computers from Cincoze powering Smart Logistics Rugged embedded computer brand – Cincoze, has gained significant popularity in recent years with its Rugged Computing – Diamond product line, making it the preferred choice among players in the smart logistics industry,...
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New S-Flow Ultrasonic Flow Meter launched by Fuji Electric
New S-Flow Ultrasonic Flow Meter launched by Fuji Electric The new FSZ S-Flow is the latest integrated clamp-on ultrasonic flow meter for liquids in small pipes. Easy installation, space saving and easily deployable, the flow meter simultaneously displays volumetric flow and percentage, or temperatu...
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AI allows Robots to carry out manual tasks by interpreting their environment
AI allows Robots to carry out manual tasks by interpreting their environment The new Bi-Touch system, designed by scientists at the University of Bristol and based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, allows robots to carry out manual tasks by sensing what to do from a digital helper. The findings, p...
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Cities are sinking as the ground warms and deforms
Cities are sinking as the ground warms and deforms There is a “silent hazard” lurking underneath our major global cities, and our buildings were not designed to handle it. A novel study from Northwestern University has established, for the initial instance, a connection between subterranean climate...
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Skipping Stones and the dynamics of Buoyant Spheres and Air Cavities
Skipping Stones and the dynamics of Buoyant Spheres and Air Cavities Inspired by the need to safeguard marine animals and promote sustainable solutions within marine environments, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and Sof...
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Chip-scale devices for Ultrawide Measurement for Viscous Fluids
Chip-scale devices for Ultrawide Measurement for Viscous Fluids Traditional viscometers rely on capillary flow, and falling balls are simple and effective means for measuring fluid viscosity over a large range. However, their low measurement throughput and lack of real-time monitoring capabilities l...
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Non-flammable Electrolyte could prevent thermal runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Non-flammable Electrolyte could prevent thermal runaway in Lithium-Ion Batteries The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a collaborative research team led by Dr. Minah Lee of the Energy Storage Research Center, Professor Dong-Hwa Seo of the Korea Advanced Institute of Sci...
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Transformative 3D displays could make the digital world more tactile
Transformative 3D displays could make the digital world more tactile Imagine an iPad that transcends its conventional boundaries, featuring a transformative surface capable of morphing and deforming. This innovative device allows you to not only draw mesmerizing 3D designs but also brings haiku to l...
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Unique Semimetal could reduce Energy Consumption in Computers and Electronics
Unique Semimetal could reduce Energy Consumption in Computers and Electronics A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, synthesized a thin film of a unique topological semimetal material that has the potential to generate more computing power and memory storage while using...
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Kyocera launches Ultra-rugged DuraForce PRO 3 Smartphone
Kyocera launches Ultra-rugged DuraForce PRO 3 Smartphone KYOCERA, a global leader in rugged devices, today launched its ultra-rugged DuraForce PRO 3 Android smartphone with comprehensive business tools to help enterprises, small businesses, first responders and a variety of vertical industries that...
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Indoor Air Pollution may have met its match with Catalyst-Coated Materials
Indoor Air Pollution may have met its match with Catalyst-Coated Materials Scientists have reported that they have designed catalyst-coated lampshades that transform indoor air pollutants into harmless compounds. The lampshades work with halogen and incandescent light bulbs, and the team is extendin...
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Iteris wins $1.3m Smart Mobility Contract by the City of La Habra in California
Iteris wins $1.3m Smart Mobility Contract by the City of La Habra in California Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a new contract by the City of La Habra in Orange County, California for a Regi...
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New Epoxy-based Fibre-reinforced Polymers resist fire and reduce waste
New Epoxy-based Fibre-reinforced Polymers resist fire and reduce waste Epoxy resins are tough and versatile polymers. In combination with glass or carbon fibres, they are used, for example, to manufacture components for aircraft, cars, trains, ships and wind turbines. Such epoxy-based fibre-reinforc...
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Arduino Uno massively scales performance with new 32-Bit versions
Arduino Uno massively scales performance with new 32-Bit versions Arduino, the world’s leading open-source hardware and software platform, has launched its next-generation UNO board, a significant revision of its 8-bit technology. Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 comes in tw...
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Mapping Underwater Terrain with Autonomous Boats
Mapping Underwater Terrain with Autonomous Boats Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have constructed a fully autonomous boat that can carry out bathymetric surveys — surveys of the depth and terrain of bodies of water like oceans, rivers and lakes. The team hopes the robotic boat can...
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Clean Hydrogen Storage with Baking Soda
Clean Hydrogen Storage with Baking Soda Demands that energy sources have zero, or next-to-zero, carbon emissions, means growing beyond coal, oil, and natural gas by getting more energy from renewable sources. One of the most promising renewable energy carriers is clean hydrogen, which is produced wi...
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Innovative Voliro T Drone to transform Inspections
Innovative Voliro T Drone to transform Inspections MFE Inspection Solutions, a leading provider of advanced inspection technology, announces a new partnership with Voliro, the innovator behind the revolutionary Voliro T drone. This advanced drone combines omnidirectional capabilities with the abilit...
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Vanderbilt University uncovering the cause of Phantom Traffic Jams
Vanderbilt University uncovering the cause of Phantom Traffic Jams Vanderbilt University and Axis Communications are proud to announce the details of a ground-breaking research testbed, known as I-24 Mobility Technology Interstate Observation Network, or I-24 MOTION, that is considered one of the wo...
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Teledyne FLIR introduces Premium E8 Pro for Thermography Inspection
Teledyne FLIR introduces Premium E8 Pro for Thermography Inspection Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the FLIR E8 Pro, providing a larger 3.5-inch touchscreen with FLIR Ignite Cloud connectivity within the same pistol-grip form factor as legacy E8 series ther...
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Advanced Pavement Markers could aid Autonomous Vehicles in Remote Areas
Advanced Pavement Markers could aid Autonomous Vehicles in Remote Areas Self-driving electric vehicles still face steep hills on the road to reliability. Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Western Michigan University are working together to drive solutions...
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Ground-breaking Wind Technology sets Sail
Ground-breaking Wind Technology sets Sail Cargill and BAR Technologies’ ground-breaking innovation, BAR Tech WindWings by Yara Marine sets sail on open waters, testing new technology that will bring cutting edge wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time. Mitsubishi Corporation’s Pyxi...
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ThunderSoft modernizing Firmware Over The Air with AWS IoT Core
ThunderSoft modernizing Firmware Over The Air with AWS IoT Core ThunderSoft, a leading provider of operating system technologies and superior edge-to-cloud products and solutions announced its modernizing Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) solution with AWS IoT Core, a service that allows customers to con...
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Iveda and The Arab Organization for Industrialization bringing Smart Cities to Egypt
Iveda and The Arab Organization for Industrialization bringing Smart Cities to Egypt Iveda®, the global solution for cloud-based AI video and sensor technologies, today announces a new partnership with The Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) to support and scale smart city developments in...
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Mack Compressed Natural Gas Truck features Allison Transmission Propulsion Solution
Mack Compressed Natural Gas Truck features Allison Transmission Propulsion Solution Allison Transmission announced that Mack Trucks, one of North America’s largest producers of heavy-duty trucks, has selected the Allison 4500 Rugged Duty Series™ (RDS) as the exclusive transmission currently o...
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Toshiba announces Automotive 40V N-Channel Power MOSFETs
Toshiba announces Automotive 40V N-Channel Power MOSFETs Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has launched two automotive 40V N-channel power MOSFETs, “XPJR6604PB” and “XPJ1R004PB,” that use Toshiba’s new S-TOGL™ (Small Transistor Outline Gull-wing Leads) package with U-MOS IX...
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HCSS Marketplace helps contractors be even more competitive
HCSS Marketplace helps contractors be even more competitive HCSS, a leading provider of innovative software that helps heavy civil businesses streamline their operations, introduces the HCSS Marketplace. Marketplace connects HCSS customers with partner companies that provide complementary products a...
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Pure Electric launches Electric Scooter range in Australia and China
Pure Electric launches Electric Scooter range in Australia and China Pure Electric, Britain’s award-winning e-scooter brand, announces the launch of its latest and most innovative electric scooter range in Australia and China. Pure Electric has announced its launch into Australia and China through i...
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Africa’s Integrated Smarter Mobility Summit set for October in Gauteng Province
Africa’s Integrated Smarter Mobility Summit set for October in Gauteng Province With just under two months remaining until South Africa’s annual October Transport Month (OTM), a month full of celebration and assessing progress made in transport, the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport in...
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Autonomous Vehicle Competition hosted at Autonomous Vehicle Camp
Autonomous Vehicle Competition hosted at Autonomous Vehicle Camp When high school students attend the annual Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Camp at the Chicago office of the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, they have just a week to build a self-driving machine. The actual building only l...
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Protecting Electric Utilities from Cyber Threats
Protecting Electric Utilities from Cyber Threats A new cybersecurity technology that relies on the unique digital fingerprint of individual semiconductor chips could help protect the equipment of electrical utilities from malicious attacks that exploit software updates on devices controlling the cri...
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Graphene Nanoribbon to unlock carbon-based Quantum Technology
Graphene Nanoribbon to unlock carbon-based Quantum Technology Quantum technology is promising, but also perplexing. In the coming decades, it is expected to provide us with various technological breakthroughs: smaller and more precise sensors, highly secure communication networks, and powerful compu...
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Caterpillar Venture Capital funding Novarc Technologies AI-powered Robotic Welding
Caterpillar Venture Capital funding Novarc Technologies AI-powered Robotic Welding Novarc Technologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced robotics solutions, announced today the company has successfully completed a Series A fundraising round with Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc., a wholly-owned su...
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Blyncsy acquired by Bentley Systems’ iTwin Ventures
Blyncsy acquired by Bentley Systems’ iTwin Ventures Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the acquisition of Blyncsy provider of breakthrough artificial intelligence services for departments of transportation to support operations and m...
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Water Supply Pipeline Safety revolutionized with Environmentally-Friendly Sensors
Water Supply Pipeline Safety revolutionized with Environmentally-Friendly Sensors The Intelligent Wave Engineering Team of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) and the Electro Ceramics Laboratory of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea University (KU,...
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Designing corrosion-resistant alloys with AI
Designing corrosion-resistant alloys with AI In a world where annual economic losses from corrosion surpass 2.5 trillion US Dollars, the quest for corrosion-resistant alloys and protective coatings is unbroken. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly pivotal role in designing new all...
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Building Bacteria could grow Sand-based Construction Materials
Building Bacteria could grow Sand-based Construction Materials Researchers have successfully grown bacterial cells in potential sand-based construction materials, as detailed in a paper published by Research Directions: Biotechnology Design, a new journal from Cambridge University Press. This achiev...
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Aeva enables safe Autonomous Train Technology for Railergy
Aeva enables safe Autonomous Train Technology for Railergy Aeva, a leader in next-generation sensing and perception systems, today announced that Railergy, a leading supplier of railway system automation solutions, has selected Aeva’s Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) 4D LiDAR™ techn...
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National Highways trials 3D-Printed Headwall on A30 road upgrade
National Highways trials 3D-Printed Headwall on A30 road upgrade The first-ever 3D-printed concrete headwall is being trialled as part of the construction process on National Highways’ A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross upgrade in Cornwall. Headwall structures are traditionally made from precast concret...
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Liebherr and Leica Geosystems expand Excavator Machine Control range
Liebherr and Leica Geosystems expand Excavator Machine Control range Liebherr, in cooperation with Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, offers various machine control systems for hydraulic excavators ex works. Machine control systems are driver assistance systems that make construction projects and pr...
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HP SitePrint Robot now available in North America, UK and Ireland
HP SitePrint Robot now available in North America, UK and Ireland HP Inc., announced full availability of HP SitePrint in the US, Canada, UK and Ireland following a successful Early Access Program with some of the biggest names in construction. HP SitePrint is a robotic solution that prints the most...
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Are Electric Vehicles too heavy for multi-storey Car Parks?
Are Electric Vehicles too heavy for multi-storey Car Parks? In June 2023, the Institution of Structural Engineers published a report suggesting that the weight of our cars is too much for many multi-storeys built in the 60s and 70s. Known for being heavier, EVs have been the first to be blamed ─ but...
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