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Members of the public can now register to take part in the UK’s first public driverless vehicle trials, due to take place later this year. The trials, which will take place in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, are part of the GATEway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) project – an £8m research project to investigate the use, perception and acceptance of autonomous vehicles in the UK.

With discussion increasingly focused on autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, demand is rising for electronic systems to support new, intelligent cars. Meanwhile, older, existing technology on high end vehicles continues to migrate down to mid-range and low end cars and technology-based aftermarket products are gaining momentum.

DHL Parcel has successfully concluded a three-month test of its third Parcelcopter generation. The trial run, part of a larger research and innovation project, was conducted between January and March 2016 in the Bavarian community of Reit im Winkl. It represents the first time worldwide that a parcel service provider has directly integrated a parcelcopter logistically into its delivery chain.

The Volvo Group will now demonstrate its self-driving truck for a broader audience, for the first time ever. The truck is part of a research and development project involving autonomous vehicles, intended to create greater business advantages for customers, mainly in the mining industry.

Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinning it around to get a solid grip. Intricate tasks that require dexterous in-hand manipulation — rolling, pivoting, bending, sensing friction and other things humans do effortlessly with our hands — have proved notoriously difficult for robots.

GIGABYTE Technology is pleased to announce that its current line-up of EL-20 series IoT Gateway solutions will phase in new Intel Pentium and Celeron processors based on the Braswell D stepping. The Intel Pentium N3710 and Intel Celeron N3060 will be phased in to deliver higher performance on both compute tasks and graphics, while maintaining their current thermal and power envelopes, thanks to improvements of Intel’s 14nm process. The D-st...

The dirty, dusty and noisy environment of a busy building site is perhaps the last place you’d expect to find the latest technology innovations. Indeed, the majority of fundamental building tools haven’t really changed that much since mankind developed the ability to create them. However, the high-tech buildings and cities of tomorrow are being designed and constructed by equally revolutionary technology.

With solar powered cars and autonomous vehicles rapidly becoming a reality, automobile manufacturers need a solid foundation of on-board computer technologies to harness the continuous stream of information produced by high-tech components. Raw data is used by the vehicle to make intelligent decisions and provide passengers with instant feedback. Securely sharing the same data with cloud services makes it possible to visualise trends and improve ...

For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada. Flown at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site designation, the Drone America Savant aircraft reached an altitude of 400ft and flew for approximately 18 minutes on April 29th, 2016.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionising the automotive industry – pioneering the development of the connected car, driver assistance systems, road and traffic infrastructure and of course, in the future, the driverless car.Research in the US has shown a significant reduction in accidents between vehicles with, versus vehicles without safety systems, regardless of the cause i.e. improper lane change, unsafe speed, unsafe following di...