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Archives for June 7, 2018

CarSmartt to develop driverless vehicle package delivery service

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Car-sharing company CarSmartt has entered in to an agreement with Archer Robotics, LLC. to establish a project and implementation plan to provide an autonomous vehicle platform for CarSmartt, focused on parcels delivery with driverless cars.

Over the past 4 months, Archer through its Aitheon team has been running a very successful ICO and to date has raised over $23,500,000.

Carsmartt, with the help of Aitheon, will launch the Carsmartt ICO, which is expected to be completed in approximately three months’ time.

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ClassOne sees upturn in plating sales for VCSEL devices

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Semiconductor equipment manufacturer ClassOne Technology has been selling its Solstice electroplating systems to the industry’s leading providers of VCSEL (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) devices in recent months.

“This is an important trend. We’re observing unprecedented demand for VCSEL manufacturing capacity to support 3D sensing, fibre-optic communications, and laser-based materials processing,” said ClassOne Group CEO, Byron Exarcos.

“At the same time, we see that compound semiconductor manufacturers are migrating production from wet-benches to automated single-wafer plating. The strong upturn in our Solstice sales reflects this.”

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Trimble acquires Stabiplan to expand its European MEP engineering solutions

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US-based Trimble now owns Stabiplan B.V., based in the Netherlands, a 3D Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) software and Building Information Modelling (BIM) content provider for the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) industries in Europe.

The Stabiplan acquisition broadens Trimble’s existing construction solutions for MEP contractors and engineers that enable automated estimating, project management, modelling, detailing, layout and construction.

Stabiplan’s solutions include Stabicad software and the MEPcontent BIM content library. Stabicad is a 3D CAD/CAE software solution for Revit and AutoCAD, which integrates design, drawing and engineering calculation/analysis, supporting workflows from engineering to construction.

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