Drone detection and counter-drone technology developer DroneShield has rolled out its first fully machine learning/artificial intelligence based drone detection and classification software. The new AI based signal processing technologies will be rolled out for all new and existing customer systems to better detect unmanned robotic systems and threats in the electronic warfare fields. The software…
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Industrial automation firm Products for Industry has won a multi-million contract to install product handling systems at Thomas Foods International’s greenfields meat processing site being constructed at Murray Bridge in South Australia. The contract for robotic palletising and container load out systems for the $300 million meat plant will form an important part of the…
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Medicinal cannabis producer Cann Group has been hit by a cyber scam that ended up costing the company $3.6 million. The Victorian company discovered the cyber security incident on February 4 but has been unable to determine the party responsible. Cann Group told investors it had recently made payments of $3.6 million to an overseas…
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The Morrison government on Friday released a plan to reduce carbon emissions from Australia’s road transport sector. Controversially, it ruled out consumer incentives to encourage electric vehicle uptake. The disappointing document is not the electric vehicle jump-start the country sorely needs.
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Nepean Engineering & Innovation is nearly a half-century old, and runs one of the country’s biggest fabrication shops. Brent Balinski spoke with the company’s R&D manager Mark Helou about how it plans to reinvent itself.
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Australia and New Zealand’s biggest maker of heavy-duty transport trailers, MaxiTrans, has opened a new factory in Ipswich, with plans to double its workforce of 70 over the next five years.
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The Victorian Government has backed Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO to build a Victorian Hydrogen Hub to bring researchers, industry partners and businesses together to test, trial and demonstrate new hydrogen technologies Backed by a $10 million injection from the state, the hub will support sustainable manufacturing practices, as well as the ability to…
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By Peter Roberts Australia’s ability to produce rare earths have been boosted in a controversial way with the news that a Chinese producer is allying itself with the company developing the Cummins Range Rare Earths Project in the East Kimberly region of Western Australia. China’s Shenghe Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with…
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Tindo Solar expansion nears completion A major expansion of Australia’s only factory producing rooftop solar PV panels is nearing completion. Tindo Solar took to social media to release photographs of its new plant, being built alongside its existing factory at Mawson Lakes in Adelaide (pictured). The company recently launched a range of premium modules which…
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By Peter Roberts An autonomous electric vehicle platform developed in the Bayswater North industrial area of Melbourne has surfaced with the release of new pictures and video. After a $7.7 million, four-year development project, robotics company Applied EV has revealed its first ‘mobility solution’ – the Blanc Robot (pictured above, and below). The Blanc Robot…
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