According to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, each year in the US alone, some 4,000 people are killed while riding motorcycles and a further 90,000 are injured.
Universal Robots, a market leading producer of cobots, the emerging new class of industrial robots that can work outside of safety enclosures alongside employees, has chosen to expand it's US presence with a new 3,000+ sq ft West Coast base in Irvine, CA.
While serving an eviction notice on Long Island for failure to pay rent, US law enforcement discovered an established counterfeit operation and uncovered more than 3,660 pairs of counterfeit UGG boots worth an estimated $700,000.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 93 projects which will share in $82m in federal funding to help push innovative nuclear technologies towards commercialization.
ABB is to supply energy-efficient, low-voltage power distribution solutions to COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes), the new car manufacturing facilities of Renault-Nissan and Daimler’s strategic Mexican joint venture with the aim of reducing energy consumption by up to 20%.
Scientists from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), in collaboration with Melbourne's RMIT University and the Queensland University of Technology, have demonstrated that pre-treating a battery’s lithium metal electrodes with an electrolyte salt solution extends the battery life and increases performance and safety.
Earlier this month, the potentially cancer-causing chemical, PFOS, was found in water streams near Sydney airport, and in several other places around Australia.
The industrial sector is undergoing massive transformation like never before. Sundeep Sanghavi co-founder of DataRPM looks deeper than preventative maintenance into the realm of predictive maintenance.
US wind turbine producer Broadwind Energy has signed a US$137m deal to supply wind turbine towers to a US wind turbine manufacturer over the next three years.
