Industries

The first electric boat has officially made the crossing from Europe to Africa, crewed by a Swedish team - marking the first-ever intercontinental journey made by an electric vessel.

In the satellite industry, dramatic increases in local data processing, support for higher throughput communication links and the rapid adoption of electrical propulsion systems are driving demand for much higher performance electrical power systems (EPSs). 

The growth in humanoid robots is being heralded for the advantages it will bring to sectors suffering from labour shortages where humans don’t want to perform repetitive, monotonous tasks - such as logistics and manufacturing.

Kontron Transportation has received an order to supply an innovative, MCx-based complete train radio solution for two other regional railway companies in Germany: Schieneninfrastruktur Ost-Niedersachsen (SinON) and Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (evb).

Direct Insight, the UK-based technical systems integrator & value-added reseller of system-on-module (SoM) & other embedded systems, will deliver a one-day, in-person classroom-based training course, titled ‘EU Cyber Resilience Act – Technical Training for Embedded & IoT: Planning for Compliance’, designed to equip embedded systems engineers, developers, and project managers with the skills and knowledge to confident...

Würth Elektronik expands its ‘WL-SFTW SMT Full-colour TOP LED Waterclear’ product group. The new RGB LEDs in their respective packages PLCC4 2121, PLCC4 3528, and PLCC6 3528 are characterised by excellent heat resistance.

A new amphibious robotic dog, designed to manoeuvre seamlessly across both land and water, has been unveiled by a team of researchers aiming to push the boundaries of terrain versatility in robotics.

In a pioneering approach to counter age-related cognitive decline, researchers from Japan and the UK have developed a virtual reality (VR) game that trains the brain using the power of smell.

Avalue Technology has announced the launch of its latest FPC-21W42, a 21.5” rugged multi-touch Panel PC designed to meet the growing demands of Edge AI applications.

Silicon Labs has announced the first products of its Series 3 portfolio with the introduction of two new wireless SoC families built at the advanced 22 nanometre (nm) process node: the SiXG301 and SiXG302. These highly integrated solutions represent a significant leap forward in compute power, integration, security, and energy efficiency, addressing the growing demands of both line-powered and battery-powered IoT devices.