10 commonly used sensors on mining drones you should know
Underground mining has unique and significant safety hazards compared to surface mining, due to high-stress concentrations, weak rock masses, and limited access and air...
Drones in underground mines – Applications and benefits
Drones that carry different acoustic, visual, chemical, and biological sensors, have various military and civilian applications such as search and rescue, surveillance, firefighting, weather...
What is a collaborative industrial robot?
A collaborative robot is a lightweight machine placed next to a human operator to support challenging and repetitive tasks. It ensures the safety of...
What are AEI tags? How do they help the freight shipping industry?
All sorts of businesses that make up our economy rely on the efficient shipping of freight. Reports are coming in that millions of tons...
Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) – Why does it matter?
Cellular network operators play an increasingly important role in improving road safety and enhancing safety-critical systems onboard vehicles. Many modern vehicles rely on cellular...
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) explained
Telematics is a general term used to refer any telecommunication devices, from GPS systems to navigation systems, responsible for sending, receiving, and storing information...
Four robot-specific cyber attacks on industrial robots
Mechanically, industrial robots may like an arm with two or more joints terminated by an end effector that interacts with the environment. But they...
Impacts of Driver Assistance Systems on driver behavior
In our increasingly technology-assisted mobile world, more and more road vehicles come with built-in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that can potentially augment driver...
Top drone delivery services fighting COVID-19 pandemic
Drone delivery services have become increasingly popular in the last few years in industries like e-commerce, construction, and film production. But the global pandemic...
Emerging transportation trends post lockdown [Infographic]
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed our local, regional, and global transportation systems into a crisis that no one has ever seen before. Travel restrictions,...
Essential tips to ensure safe forklift operations
There is plenty of modern equipment we use today in worksites like warehouses and other large storage facilities to precisely lift and place large,...
Top 12 key market players in Mining Automation
Mining is traditionally a labor-intensive and dangerous job. It involves several challenges associated with rising energy and labor costs, productivity, environmental sustainability, regulations, and...