Technology

An Australian solar-powered electric car, designed and built solely by university students, has claimed a provisional Guinness World Record by going 1000km on a single charge in under 12 hours.

Australian UAV manufacturer Carbonix has ventured into a partnership with aviation company H3 Dynamics to begin the development of Australia’s first hydrogen-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS). 

To celebrate the 150th-anniversary milestone, Siemens has announced an extended three-year warranty on selected automation and drive products purchased in Australia and New Zealand.

The Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has marked the closure of its $30 million Federal Government Commercialisation Fund with co-investment into a final six Australian manufacturers.

Research led by Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide has developed an accurate method of controlling optical circuits on fingernail-sized photonic integrated circuits.

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has unveiled the members of a National Robotics Strategy Advisory Committee that would establish Australia’s strategy for emerging automation technologies.

Epson has re-equipped and reopened the Fujimi Inkjet Innovation Lab at its Fujimi Plant Japan.

Under a memorandum of understanding, the two companies will look into the initial concepts for a heavy fuel engine that could be used for Stork-STM, a heavy lift uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) being developed by Animal Dynamics. 

Boeing has combined its Australian and US expertise to build ground architecture and control systems for Australia’s first defence satellites under the JP9102 program. 

During a busy and highly successful Formnext 2022 in Frankfurt, Horizon Microtechnologies commercially launched it ground-breaking template-based 3D-microfabrication technology, which produces conductive micro additive manufacturing (micro-AM) derived parts with micrometer scale precision.