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An unmanned air ambulance has been filmed taking off, untethered, for the first time. The AirMule, developed by Tactical Robotics and long proposed as a means of extracting soldiers from a battlefield without risking further loss of life, has been in development for close to a decade.

The first industrial robot, Unimate, went into operation at a General Motors plant in 1961. Over the next few decades the use of industrial robot arms in the automotive industry matured. More recently, the use of industrial robot arms in the cleanroom environments of the semiconductor and electronics industries also matured. By Dr Jon Harrop, Director, IDTechEx.

NXP Semiconductors has announced the next step in innovation for its market-leading automotive radar portfolio: the world's smallest single-chip 77GHz radar transceiver (7.5x7.5mm) with very high resolution performance. Radar is a core technology in existing and future ADAS, as it provides precise data about the surrounding driving environment, ultimately making life safer for drivers and commuters on the road.

Taking inspiration from the way kestrels hover above their prey, researchers at the RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia have developed an autonomous fixed-wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can gain height from convenient updrafts. The results are published in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.

At CES 2016, LeddarTech is demonstrating how Leddar detection and ranging technology can be integrated into standard automotive components (such as headlamps, rear lamps or side view mirrors) to enable the development and deployment of highly-optimised ADAS sensing solutions.

Designed to reliable multimedia transmissions for next-gen infotainment and telematics, Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced an automotive-grade Ethernet bridge solution. The TC9560XBG supports standards such as IEEE 802.1AS and IEEE 802.1Qav, generally referred to as Ethernet-AVB.

Chinese drone maker Ehang has unveiled what it claims is the world's first autonomous helicopter drone.The Ehang 184 is a 440-pound, eight-rotor aircraft which the company claims is able to lift a single person 500 metres into the air and fly them to any point on Google Maps, avoiding objects automatically and safely handling take-off and landing (as long as it can be reached within the 23 minutes battery limit).

Thanks to the Swissbit firmware translation layer architecture (FTL) – claimed to be the world’s first implementation of a sub-page based firmware on SD cards – the new S-45 family offers several key features that cannot normally co-exist in one SD/Micro SD card: cost competitiveness, extended endurance, increased retention time, elimination of read disturb and high sustained random write performance for small data size operatio...

CEVA has announced the completion of an ISO 26262 compliant safety design package that helps customers accelerate the certification of ADAS utilising the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSP. YOGITECH was engaged by CEVA to deliver the Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) report and advise on achieving ASIL B compliancy.

Complementing the company's GNSS platform portfolio by addressing power sensitive usage, u-blox has released the u-blox 8 GPS/GLONASS receiver platform. The existing u-blox M8 platform will continue to serve applications where navigation performance and highest accuracy are paramount.