Security forces that rely on sophisticated equipment, trained personnel, and detection dogs could soon receive assistance in the form of an electronic chip with nano-sized chemical sensors.
Under contract by Network Rail, engineers at Huddersfield University’s Institute of Railway Research (IRR) are working on a project to overcome track-related difficulties encountered when operating...
Designer revealed for autonomous vehicle race series
A driver monitoring system that uses an AI-enabled in car camera to detect when a driver is becoming drowsy or distracted could help save tens of thousands of lives over the next 20 years it is...
Engineers at Cambridge Consultants have developed a ’smart’ drinks bottle called the i-dration that works in synchronisation with a smartphone to help sportspeople maintain optimum levels of...
SKF is to close two of its US plants – a bearing plant in Aiken, South Carolina, and a seals plant in Springfield, South Dakota.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded $26m by the US government’s Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop a high-power fibre laser that will be tested on a fighter jet by 2021.
Fleet availability for Great Western Railway’s high-speed trains will be boosted with the installation of Hitachi Rail’s ‘Perpetuum Onboard’ wireless technology to monitor wheels and bogies.
