List of industrial projects

In order to make assembly lines more flexible, while still using relatively simple grippers that could be easily exchanged, the research team first had to research and write an algorithm that allowed the gripper robots to adapt to different objects and trajectories intelligently. Rather than giving them articulated grippers the scientists exchanged the grips being used, ...

Mitsotakis promised to speed up permits for renewable energy projects as the country seeks to wean itself off polluting and costly imported fossil fuels. Greece aims to almost double its installed capacity from renewables to about 19 gigawatts by 2030. This could be revised upwardly as part of the European Commission's fresh drive to accelerate transition to green energ...

Nickel North Exploration (TSXV: NNX) has released an updated mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its 100% owned Hawk Ridge nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM (platinum group metals) project in northern Quebec, showing a significant increase over its initial resource published in 2013. The total inferred mineral resource now totals 34.7 million tonnes with average grades of 0.22% n...

The prototype Volvo HX04 is not the only first for the company when it comes to articulated haulers. It invented the world’s first ADT in 1966. The truck was given the nickname “Gravel Charlie” and was developed at the company’s facility in Braås, Sweden. That’s the same place Volvo is developing the hydrogen hauler, which has been given the nickname “Electric Charlie.” ...

The project came to fruition earlier this month and aims to deal with various waste streams generated during the production process in the recycled paper industry. The system homogenizes the incoming materials using Genox’s advanced shredding technology which improves the efficiency of the customers recycling operation, whilst rigorously controlling dust emissions in ...

The multi-million dollar expansion will include the addition of new equipment and material storage space to the processing facility. The ground-breaking of the Aveka Nutra Processing (ANP) plant extension was held in November 2019 and its completion is expected in July 2020. The company decided to expand the facility as its existing spray drying capacity is nearly run...

A new report by industrial and commercial market intelligence firm SalesLeads found the number of planned North American food and beverage industry projects increased in May, snapping a downward trend each previous month of 2020. SalesLeads’ monthly report tracking such projects showed 67 projects during the month of May, up from 64 in April, though still down from 70...

The construction of ground-breaking buildings (nearly) always relies upon tried and tested reinforced concrete structures. Such was the case as well with the Freiberg high-rise project. Due to the required earthquake safety, 98% of the shell of the tower was designed as a reinforced concrete structure, with only a few additional pre-fabricated reinforced concrete element...

Nissan is on a mission to make your life easier, they have recently begun testing a new paint technology with the Nissan Note. The paint technology, called Ultra-Ever Dry, repels water, mud and oils. Nissan is calling the new Nissan Note prototype, the ‘world’s first self-cleaning car’ and claim – drivers may never need to wash their car again. In reality the proto...

A company named Carbon will be producing digitally manufactured polymer parts for Ford and these parts will be used in some of Ford’s newest models. Carbon will be making components like HVAC Lever Arm Service Parts for the Ford Focus, Auxiliary Plugs for the Ford F-150 Raptor, and Electric Parking Brake Brackets for the new 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500. Ford and Carbon ...

Sony's efforts in the area of mobility - such as pursuing safety, reliability, comfort and entertainment - are being positioned as a new initiative, named "VISION-S." The first prototype vehicle to result from "VISION-S" will be showcased at the Sony booth. This prototype incorporates Sony's imaging and sensing technologies, as well as on-board software regulated using S...

Earned by the company’s Wellington site, this certification allows the company to further build on its packaging solutions and to supply direct contact packaging to manufacturers in the food and drink sector. The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety provides a framework to manage product safety, integrity, legality and quality, and the operational controls for these c...

Imperial graduate Nicole Stjernsward developed the Kaiku system, which takes the waste from fruits and vegetables such as avocadoes, beetroots, lemons, onions and pomegranates and transforms them into raw materials for producing dyes, inks and paints through a process of vaporization. To create the powder, the skins and peels of fruits and vegetables are boiled in wat...

The company is quizzing firms about the ways unplanned variables in the production environment affect factors such as quality, yield and efficiency and asking what some of the barriers to addressing these are. one example could be how external weather conditions, such as temperature, could influence the viscosity of liquid products such as chocolate, explained keith t...

Source Form is a stand-alone device capable of collecting crowdsourced images of a user-defined object, stitching together available visual data (e.g., photos tagged with search term) through photogrammetry, creating watertight models from the resulting point cloud and 3D printing a physical form. This device works completely independent of subjective user input resultin...

The units were developed by a collaborative team including local firm Houben & Van Mierlo Architecten, and the Eindhoven University of Technology. The pods will be purchased and let out by a real estate company upon completion. The first house will be a single-floor, three-room house measuring 1000 square feet (95 square meters), to be followed by four multi-story uni...

A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Braunschweig (TUBS) have devised a way for aircraft to potentially make automatic landings at small airfields without needing ground-based systems that are normally present only at large, commercial airports. An instrument landing system (ILS) uses radio waves to make measurements from electric be...

Several ideas for making the Martian surface more habitable have been put forward5,6,7,8, but they all involve massive environmental modification that will be well beyond human capability for the foreseeable future9. Here, we present a new approach to this problem. We show that widespread regions of the surface of Mars could be made habitable to photosynthetic life in th...

Here, we report a facile, scalable, lithography-free method to generate controllable nanostructures with directional randomness and dimensional order, significantly boosting the efficiency of white OLEDs. Mechanical deformations form on the surface of poly(dimethylsiloxane) in response to compressive stress release, initialized by reactive ions etching with periodicity a...

Specifically, the partners of the ‘Moonrise’ project intend their laser to melt regolith on the lunar surface, which after cooling becomes a solid body that could be used as a building material in the creation of a ‘Moon Village’ – the vision of a global village on the moon that can be used as an outpost in space. The moon would be an ideal place to establish a resear...

LUGANO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Energy Vault, an Idealab company that creates renewable energy storage products, today announced its selection by Fast Company as the winner of one of the publication’s World Changing Idea 2019 awards. The company won the Energy category and was recognized for its transformative utility-scale energy storage technology that sets new ben...

The possibility to control the microstructure of foods to create foods with excellent sensory properties using 3D food printing need to be explored. From a nutritional and sensorial perspective, by 3D printing of multiple components one can control the spatial distribution of ingredients in a product, thus give another dimension in the control of sensory properties. F...

The boiler will allow the company to convert 130,000 tons of waste per year into district heat, industrial hot water, industrial steam and electricity. The boiler will have a thermal capacity of 20 MW and will be based on Valmet’s bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) technology with Advanced Combustion Zone (ACZ) for low-emission control. It will be able to run on a wide fuel...

The diamond composite will be unveiled at the RAPID + TCT show in Detroit May 21 - 23, 2019, North America’s leading event for Additive Manufacturing. Diamond is harder than anything else in nature. It is a key component in a large range of wear resistant tools in industry, from mining and drilling to machining and also medical implants. Since 1953 it has been possibl...

UPTIS IS THE FIRST OF A NEW GENERATION OF AIRLESS SOLUTIONS, SUPPORTED THROUGH: 1) INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY; Through Michelin’s expertise in high-tech materials, Uptis is a significant development in existing airless mobility technology. Uptis eliminates regular maintenance, such as pressure checks, and inspections for damage, such as punctures. This makes Uptis idea...

When we announced earlier this year that we were evolving our Prime two-day shipping offer in the U.S. to a one-day program, the response was terrific. But we know customers are always looking for something better, more convenient, and there may be times when one-day delivery may not be the right choice. Can we deliver packages to customers even faster? We think the answ...

To help address this issue, Ford is teaming up with Agility Robotics to explore a brand-new frontier in the world of autonomy — and a new way of thinking about how we make deliveries. Together, we will work toward making sure self-driving vehicles are uniquely outfitted to accomplish something that’s proven surprisingly difficult to do: Carry out that final step of getti...

Now Ford has come up with a way of taking the stress out of even that situation – taking inspiration from the means by which new car technology helps drivers to avoid accidents on the road. Available in most Ford models, Pre-Collison Assist technology uses a forward-facing camera and radar to detect vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists in the road, and automatically app...

Bosch engineers are prepared to deliver us from the heartbreak of intrusive sun visors, with an LCD panel that dynamically shades only the driver’s eyes from sun glare while remaining otherwise transparent. Though it seems that we struggle mainly to see traffic signals while waiting at a red light with the visor deployed to block the sun, a pair of University of Toron...

A collaboration between ULC Robotics and SGN, one of the largest gas network companies in the U.K., has reached the halfway point in a project looking to create an autonomous robotic system that can be used for roadway excavation projects within the utilities sector. The Robotic Roadworks and Excavation System (RRES) project, which began in early 2018, combines a powe...

Discovering a new way of embedding artificial muscles and electrical adhesion into soft materials, researchers at the University of Bristol have created stretchable, skin-like robots that can be rolled up and placed in a pocket. The advance could lead to the creation of new thin and light robots for environmental monitoring, deployment in hazardous environments, robot gr...

The Goodyear AERO concept is a two-in-one tire designed for the autonomous, flying cars of the future. This concept would work both as a tire for driving on the road and a “propeller” for flying through the sky. “ Chris Helsel, Chief Technology Officer at Goodyear For over 120 years Goodyear has obsessively pursued innovations and inventions, partnering with the pio...

In its fifth supersonic rocket powered test flight, Virgin Galactic reached space for the second time today in the skies above Mojave CA. Spaceship VSS Unity reached its highest speed and altitude to date and, for the first time, carried a third crew member on board along with research payloads from the NASA Flight Opportunities program. This space flight means Chie...

The vast majority of these “junk” satellites – communications, weather, military – have operational lifetimes lasting a few years – about five to 10 years, after which there is no system for bringing them back or clear them in any way. (See simulation of space debris around Earth below.) Some have previously proposed to build robots that can travel to those obsolete s...

The partners are going to jointly specify high-performance battery cells. CATL will then design, develop, and manufacture these cells in accordance with Bosch requirements. The cells are to be used in the 48-volt battery developed by Bosch. This battery is the core element of 48-volt hybrid powertrain systems, whose efficiency is making them globally ever more impo...

Our pursuit of the possible started with an extensive research process into the needs and wants of the sport’s most important stakeholders – the fans – and called upon our experts in powertrain, aerodynamics, design, materials technology, data science and human performance to create a blueprint for grand prix racing. Fast, predatory and instinctive As with most resea...