The Swedish company Avassa has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner 2022 in Edge computing. Founded 2020 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, Avassa is an Edge orchestration platform provider aiming to bridge the tooling void between distributed Edge environments…
Wyzo: the design-award-winning, and ‘world’s first’, sidebot
Wyzo is considered the world’s first ‘sidebot‘ and has been given a Design Award in the Industry & Tools Category from iF, and the coveted Best of the Best Award from Red Dot for Industrial Equipment, Product Design and Robotics.…
Nexus, connecting siloed engineering & unlocking smart manufacturing
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced an open platform for smart manufacturing, Nexus, which will revolutionise how technology professionals collaborate and innovate. Announced at Hexagon’s HxGN LIVE Global 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nexus will enable real time data sharing…
Watch automated mushroom harvesting
Automation helps alongside humans to process over 90 tonnes of mushrooms per week. This piece introduces Axis and Igus’s energy chain technology. The TH3 energy chain for automated mushroom harvesting The TH3 energy chain, a product of AXIS Harvesting, is…
Sensor provides early warning of bridge damage
A prototype sensor that provides an early warning signal if a bridge is at risk of scour – the number one cause of bridge collapse globally – has been developed by a Queen’s University Belfast researcher. Scour is erosion of…
Samsung Ventures invests in Israeli AI company NeuReality
NeuReality, developer of inference technology such as computer vision and NLP, has announced that it has received investments from Samsung Ventures. More than just a chip company, NeuReality’s comprehensive solution includes hardware, software and tools that work together to simplify…
Allxon and Impulse Embedded announce remote device management distribution partnership
Allxon and Impulse Embedded have announced a distribution partnership to combine the former’s business edge device management solution with the latter’s embedded systems and HMIs. Allxon is an essential edge device management solution that simplifies and optimises business operations by…
The firefly-inspired robo-bugs
MIT has announced its flying robots that use a phenomenon known as electroluminescence to replace the problematic need for weighty sensors with a light signal-based system of communication that can be carried out between other firefly-inspired robots. Fireflies that light…
Real-time positioning and tracking system for cart management in textile mills
The ARTEMIS real-time positioning and tracking system is offering Industry 4.0 innovation to Taiwan’s textile manufacturing process, offering Taiwan global competitiveness in production output and a reduction in manual labour. Helping Taiwan textile manufacturers boost global competitiveness Taiwan Textile Research…
Whitepaper: how to implement wireless remote monitoring
Signal conditioning and sensor system specialist Mantracourt has released a new whitepaper on remote monitoring, which explores the benefits of remote monitoring technology and the applications where it is most effective. Such benefits include temperature, humidity and pressure monitoring in…
