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Deutz Diesels Take to Stage V
For the past 15 or so years, the changeover to a new emissions standard has posed a major challenge for both OEMs and engine manufacturers. And since the very first changeover, engine efficiency and emissions...
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LiuGong Builds Commitment to R&D into New China Hub
At Intermat, LiuGong announced that it was in a 60-day countdown before its new Global Research and Development Center opens in June. LiuGong, founded in 1958, currently directs close to...
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Researcher Develops Autonomous UAV Refueling System
A University of Sydney researcher has designed and successfully tested a method for autonomously docking drones for refueling or recharging, in mid- air. Daniel Wilson, whose PhD research...
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Army Looks Toward Fully Autonomous Tactical Vehicle
The U.S. Army is working toward developing a fully autonomous tactical vehicle, a robotics expert said. "When you start looking at the mid-term, five to 10 years, we start talking about...
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Laser-Based Aircraft Countermeasures Protect Against MANPADS
The Army expects to reach a Milestone B decision with its laser-based common infrared countermeasures, or CIRCM, defense system program later this year. The CIRCM system, under...
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Road Rules, a San Francisco Start-Up, Explores World of Car APIs
A smart phone is obviously just a phone. However, its usefulness is infinitely expanded because third-party software developers make a mind-boggling array of mobile...
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Most Luxurious Range Rover Introduced
A high-performance vehicle with two-tone paint may sound like something out of the 1960s U.S., an era of some wretched excess. The SVAutobiography featured at the 2015 New York Auto Show by Land Rover is a high-end Range Rover variant (about $200,000), and has a high-output V8. It's produced at the company's...
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Rockwell Collins Launches New High-Fidelity Image Generator
In the launch of its EP-8100 image generating system for commercial and military simulation and training, Rockwell Collins said that the system addresses the key issues facing its...
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Additive Manufacturing and Materials a Prime Focus for GKN Aerospace
GKN Aerospace recently announced two collaborative research projects related to the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM) within the aerospace industry. One is a...
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New Exhaust Configuration for the AW609 Tilt Rotor Engine Bay
The engine bay is an essential component of the AgustaWestland AW609 tilt rotor nacelle, since it determines the performance of the engine and assures safe maneuvers for every...
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Boeing’s EcoDemonstrator 757 Used to Get the Bugs Out
Boeing is in the midst of several months of flights with its ecoDemonstrator 757 in a first-round effort to evaluate new technologies in 2015 that are expected to reduce environmental...
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HMI’s Simple Challenge: Control Everything Possible Without Any Difficulty
Car buyers who select vehicles with an abundant array of features and functions have a simple request for automakers. They want a human-machine interface that lets...
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ExxonMobil Predicts Heavy Reliance on Petroleum
There’s been a push to wean vehicles from petroleum, but fossil fuels will continue to power the transportation field for the next few decades, according to the ExxonMobil researcher who...
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With Connectivity Comes Cyber Security Concerns
As connectivity expands throughout the transportation industry, it’s transforming security from door locks to firewalls and antivirus programs. That’s creating a lot of concern as vehicle suppliers and even U.S. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents consider the potential impact on the...
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Continental's Matschi: Mobility Is Changing
Traffic gridlock, accident fatalities, and vehicle emissions are not good things. So the underlying challenge for the auto industry is to develop and use technologies appropriately for society.
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Rocket Science May Improve Kidney Dialysis
Researchers in the United Kingdom have found a way to redesign an artificial connection between an artery and vein, known as an Arterio-Venous Fistulae (AVF), that surgeons form in the arms of...
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Are Airships the Future of Aviation?
Researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have completed a three-year study of stratospheric passenger airships designed to provide a future sustainable air transport network. The Multibody Advanced...
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Unmanned Aircraft Inspect Energy Pipeline
A fixed-wing unmanned aircraft was used to inspect an energy pipeline route with a piloted chase plane following behind to ensure safety beyond the ground observers' sight line. The flight was a step...
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Uncertainty Surrounds Competition to Roll out Autonomous Vehicle
Automotive planners and developers are working overtime to provide more autonomous features and functions, but there’s still plenty of uncertainty surrounding driverless...
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Futurist Kurzweil Discusses Acceleration of Intelligent Technology
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sees a remarkable century with autonomous vehicles transporting smarter, healthier persons to various destinations.
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Annual Traffic Safety Forum Looks at NHTSA Data, OE Teen Driving Aids
Driver error may cause 94% of the nearly 33,000 annual motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S., but countermeasures are not necessarily obvious because the detailed data are...
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Mitsubishi Refreshes Outlander
Mitsubishi is working to bring the brand into the mainstream and on the shopping lists of more buyers, and the 2016 Outlander seven-passenger, three-seat row crossover, introduced at the 2015 New York...
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CPT Expects Hiring Binge
Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) could triple its current 50-person workforce as its portfolio of advanced technologies edge closer to commercialization reality.
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Cummins Looks Ahead with New Component Technology
Cummins took advantage of the crowd at Intermat to unveil a couple of next-generation component innovations that showcase its “full spectrum of its expertise in component technologies for...
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IoT-Enabled Software
Wind River(R) has expanded its Wind River Helix product portfolio to address the Internet of Things (IoT). Wind River has added application and data services in the cloud to its operating systems and IoT software platform...
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Shell Oil Conference Focuses on Transportation Alternatives
Demand for energy is increasing as more and more people live in urban environments. The growth of global megacities “is like adding two Detroit [populations, about 700,000...
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Halla Visteon Expands HVAC Production Capability in India
Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. (HVCC) recently began production at its new facility in Sanand, in the state of Gujarat, India. The full-line supplier of automotive thermal...
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Truck Racing Demonstrates New Technology, Aero Design
Season two of the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship took place this spring at India’s F1 track, the Buddh International Circuit (BIC), with Stuart Oliver of Team Castrol Vecton...
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Zen Technologies, Rockwell Collins Develop Next-Gen Flight Simulator for Indian Market
Zen Technologies and Rockwell Collins recently unveiled a next-generation rotary wing simulator to serve the “burgeoning need” of the military flight simulation market in India. The companies had previously signed a Memorandum of Understanding to combine...
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