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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a combination of software and hardware that will allow them to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large, unfamiliar areas – such as collapsed buildings after a disaster.

People were understandably sceptical when George Hotz, an artificial intelligence software developer and renowned hacker, announced the $999 Comma One kit, which promised to convert normal cars into semi-autonomous ones. OK, so the kit had its limitations, which Hotz’s company was at pains to point out. It would still have needed the driver to pay close attention at all times.

Two major technology awards have been awarded to CEL's Cortet IoT Connectivity Suite. The company’s solution received both the Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award and the 2016 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award.

Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, General Manager, Automotive Systems at Texas Instruments spoke to Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush at electronica about the company’s new whitepaper on ‘Driving the green revolution’.

Industry 4.0 is the next stage on from the automation systems that many companies within the sheet metal industry are already embracing. Rob Powell, Commercial Director at Lantek UK talks about Industry 4.0 and what that means for sheet metal manufacturers.

A development that eliminates the problems of unreliability and short life typically experienced by mobile medical carts powered by traditional lead-acid batteries has been created through a partnership betwen Saft andthe Dutch start-up, DCPower4C.

The completion of the first phase of a 24-month project has been announced by Steatite, to develop pressure-tolerant lithium sulphur (Li-S) battery packs that can improve the endurance and speed of ‘deep-dive’ autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).

Exporters are now required to verify the weight of packed shipping containers, after the three month grace period on the amended Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Regulations has expired.Sensor Technology is able to provide a simple, retrofittable solution for SOLAS compliance, and the company has already worked with a number of exporters who admitted to being ‘caught out’ by the implementation of the legislation.

Industry 4.0 demands modular, flexible production lines. While these qualities are being implemented successfully at a functional control level, achieving comparable levels of flexibility in line-level safety technology has so far seemed an insurmountable hurdle. With the combination of OPC UA and openSAFETY, B&R aims to change that – providing seamless safety for production lines.

Software for viewing applications can be developed and evaluated faster, using an advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) view solution kit, says Renesas Electronics.