07/06/2019 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos controls the world’s first touch-transmitting telerobotic hand at Amazon re:MARS tech showcase Jeff Bezos took control of a pair of giant, remote-controlled robot hands on Wednesday at Amazon's robotics conference re:MARS in Las Vegas.
31/05/2019 Powerful laser could boost car manufacturing With the ability to cut and shape ultra-high-strength boron steel up to one thousand times faster than existing technology, a new precision pulse laser looks set to boost the car industry with a 10% ...
31/05/2019 Invisible door adopted by Waitrose to solve £1.5bn retail problem Waitrose & Partners is to introduce an ‘invisible door’ that has the potential to save British retailers a combined £1.5bn per year by reducing their energy bills.
30/05/2019 UK Autodrive findings released In December 2014 UK Autodrive was named as the largest of three successful consortia to be selected in response to Innovate UK’s ‘Introducing driverless cars to UK roads’ competition. In late 2018 ...
30/05/2019 Renault announces partnership with Vulog for car-sharing ready electric vehicles Groupe Renault and shared mobility technology company Vulog are collaborating to manufacture car-sharing ready vehicles. Renault will install Vulog’s AiMA car sharing hardware directly on its ...
29/05/2019 ‘Revolutionary’ 3D digital display technology Vision Engineering has unveiled what it calls a revolutionary digital 3D stereoscopic display technology. Unlike traditional mono digital microscopes, Vision Engineering’s Deep Reality Viewer (DRV) ...
29/05/2019 CFMS joins forces with the VEC to strengthen UK digital design capability The Centre for Modelling & Simulation (CFMS), an independent, not-for-profit specialist in digital engineering, has entered into a three-year partnership with the Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC), a ...
28/05/2019 First race car in the world to be produced with augmented reality Students from the University of Bath are using an augmented reality (AR) tool developed by Rocketmakers to assist production of their 2019 Formula Student competition entry.
28/05/2019 Biomechanics and gaming technology help reduce factory worker injuries by 70% SEAT has reduced the number of muscle injuries suffered by its factory workers at its Martorell plant by 70% in two years by using biomechanics and cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) technology.
17/05/2019 Design startup Crello reaches 1 million registered users in less than two years Crello has announced it has reached 1 million global users with over 18 million design projects created since its inception in the summer of 2017. The startup has managed to achieve this over the ...
15/05/2019 New magazine launched to focus on manufacturing sector in Ireland MA Business, publisher of leading engineering design and manufacturing magazines Eureka!, New Electronics, FAST, Machinery and Manufacturing Management, is delighted to announce the launch of ‘MADE ...
08/04/2019 Energid and ModuleWorks bring enhanced motion control to complex robotics ModuleWorks and Energid Technologies have collaborated on a software solution that will add Energid’s adaptive kinematics and collision-avoidance capabilities to ModuleWorks’ optimised toolpath for ...
04/04/2019 Are you ready for the GPS rollover? At 1am BST on 7 April 2019 (midnight 6 April UTC) the Global Positioning System (GPS) method for counting time will reach its maximum limit and will reset, or rollover, potentially affecting the ...
04/04/2019 Electrocomponents launches new global tech company - OKdo Electrocomponents, the company behind RS Components and Allied Electronics & Automation, has launched OKdo, a new global technology business to focus on single board computing (SBC) and the Internet ...
02/04/2019 Low Force Stereolithography printers Formlabs has today announced the addition of two advanced professional Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) 3D printers to its hardware line-up: Form 3 and Form 3L.
01/04/2019 Exclusive: Transforming industrial-grade 3D printing Stratasys has released the F120 3D printer, the latest in its F123 Series of FDM printers, which is claimed to deliver reliable, accurate, complex and functional parts up to three times faster than ...
19/03/2019 First desktop robot for industrial use Automata, a London-based robotics company, today announced the launch of Eva – the first-ever desktop robot for industrial use, following £5.3m in funding.
08/03/2019 Call to celebrate inspirational female engineers on International Women’s Day To mark International Women’s Day, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched the call for entries for its 2019 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards (YWE).
05/03/2019 Quadruped robot does a backflip MIT’s mini cheetah robot has become the first four-legged robot to perform a perfect backflip.
04/03/2019 First haptic robot hand transmits touch across the Atlantic In a first, a haptic robot hand has been able to transmit touch over a distance to the operator. The haptic telerobot was able to type, “Hello, World!” on a keyboard in London, while controlled from ...
04/03/2019 ABB and Dassault Systèmes enter global software partnership for digital industries ABB and Dassault Systèmes have announced a global partnership to offer digital industry customers a software solutions portfolio ranging from product life cycle management to asset health solutions. ...
04/03/2019 Additively manufactured spinal implants A collaboration between advanced technology and engineering companies has demonstrated the advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) in the production of spinal implants.
01/03/2019 National Space Centre and Nylacast launch mission to develop future scientists and engineers Nylacast has become one of the first sponsors of the National Space Centre’s IGNITE scheme, focused on developing future scientists and engineers.
28/02/2019 Report lays out digital roadmap to £57bn productivity pay-out for UK small businesses UK SMEs could receive up to a £57bn productivity pay-out over five years, according to a new research report by independent economic consultancy Volterra Partners, in association with accounting ...
28/02/2019 PTC and ANSYS bring real-time simulation to design engineers PTC has released Creo Simulation Live which combines PTC’s and ANSYS’ capabilities by bringing real-time simulation directly into the design environment, allowing design engineers to see the impact ...
Haptic robot “weirdly natural” Jeff Bezos took control of a pair of giant, remote-controlled robot hands on ...
PULSE to boost car production With the ability to cut and shape ultra-high-strength boron steel up to one thousand ...
Waitrose’s ‘invisible door’ Waitrose & Partners is to introduce an ‘invisible door’ that has the potential to ...
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