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Tuesday, 04 September 2018 08:01

UK Tech Rocketship Awards take off in Australia and New Zealand

UK Tech Rocketship Awards take off in Australia and New Zealand

The UK’s Tech Rocketship Awards offer Australian and New Zealand technology scale-ups a new launch-pad for their global expansion.

Published in AVIONICS
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Tuesday, 04 September 2018 07:53

Autonomous Passenger Vehicle Goes Operational and we conduct Road Test

Autonomous Passenger Vehicle Goes Operational and we conduct Road Test

Meets safety requirement under rigorous applied conditions

The autonomous shuttle looks like a Kombi van, a little closer to the ground. It plies its way up and down a wide and leafy boulevard sandwiched between two busy main streets.

I step in at the terminus.

A pleasant middle aged woman accompanied by nothing more than a child/grandchild is in charge.

There is room for around 10. There are four of us on board. We set off. With nobody’s hands on any controls.

The vehicle proceeds at a walking pace, weaving its way around pedestrians and clusters of North African hand bag salesman with their wares scattered quite widely.

A bunch of young pedestrian is oblivious to our progress, hardly surprising given our noiseless progression.

It is now that our official goes into action, sounding a parp-parp on the horn which has the desired effect of dispersing the obstructing bunch of humanity .

A minute or so later we have arrived at the up-city terminus. I notice that our operator adjusts a touch screen.

I am now on the return trip down the boulevard, a decision helped by the fact that the navette, French for shuttle, is free.

Once again our official stands midships and we make our way down the boulevard, and this time the voyage is made with no intervention at all.

Was I impressed? Most definitely.

Though proceeding at walking pace, the navette could still have delivered a memorable clout to anything three dimension that it encountered, and most damagingly to human flesh.

How did it work? I asked our friendly on-board representative. With cameras, I was assured.

In the event and in the few weeks that the autonomous navette has been operating the cameras have been applied successfully, there being no report of any collision of the type that is so eagerly awaited, and then reported, when innovations of this scale quite literally hit the street.

The one that I rode was made by Navya which is on France’s Toulouse-Lyon technology corridor, and under operational trial not far away.

Navya has a model exactly like this one under evaluation at Christchurch airport in New Zealand.

The company cold-shouldered my attempt to learn from it more details of the “camera” technology.

Even so, it relies heavily on a technique known as LIDAR that uses pulsed laser to measure distances.

Nobody can dispute that the little-fanfared autonomous vehicle I rode on has proved the single most important thing that the technology needs to prove which is to the effect that it is safe.

I noticed though that in these early days there was a reluctance to use it.

Was it just fear of the new? A noted French characteristic.

It could have hardly been the safety factor.

Only yards away people hurtled around in cars and noisy motos unencased in technologies of the laser, gyroscopic, and kinetic variety…….

Published in EXCLUSIVE
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Sunday, 02 September 2018 13:30

Free range sheep breeding potential joint ventures

Free range sheep breeding potential joint ventures

In March 2018, the Chilean capital of Santiago played host to delegations from 11 countries, including Canada, who converged on the city to sign the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) reports Paul Bryce for British Columbia's Modern Agriculture publication.

Published in AGRICULTURE
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Wednesday, 05 September 2018 07:45

The strength you need for tooling and functional parts

The strength you need for tooling and functional parts

Designed for accuracy and built to survive the production floor environment, seeing is believing, and this is your opportunity to get your hands on Markforged 3D prints. 

Published in 3D PRINTING
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Sunday, 02 September 2018 12:25

New Zealand Manufacturing Roadshow

New Zealand Manufacturing Roadshow

Members of the CADPRO Systems manufacturing team will have returned from the most significant manufacturing show in North America – IMTS 2018 and from a visit with Markforged.

Published in CADPRO SYSTEMS
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Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:32

Future Fibres: Chosen as supplier of one design high performance rigging for the 36th America’s Cup

Future Fibres: Chosen as supplier of one design high performance rigging for the 36th America’s Cup

America’s Cup Event Limited (ACE) and the Challenger of Record (COR) have engaged Future Fibres to supply its new AEROrazr rigging to all teams competing in the 36th America’s Cup Presented by Prada.

Published in COMPOSITES
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Wednesday, 29 August 2018 14:35

Futuristic camper expands to reveal huge party deck

Futuristic camper expands to reveal huge party deck

In the camper world, there are only so many types of vans, trailers, and RVs. Need a ton of space? Class A is your best bet. Don’t want to haul anything and like stealth camping? Check out an adventure van.

Published in MANUFACTURING
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Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:58

Adaptive cruise control now standard across part of Penske NZ range

Adaptive cruise control now standard across part of Penske NZ range

On-highway vehicles across the MAN TGS and TGX truck range will come with standard adaptive cruise control (ACC) it was announced today by Penske New Zealand.

Published in TRANSPORT
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Wednesday, 29 August 2018 10:20

Pseudo-productivity with Dr Eric Crampton

The Productivity Commission’s report on state sector productivity makes for dismal reading.

Published in PRODUCTIVITY
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Wednesday, 29 August 2018 09:27

Business Partnership Agenda

Business Partnership Agenda

Partnering with business to develop a productive, sustainable and inclusive economy.

Published in POLITICAL
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