Archives for September 5, 2018

Sarcos Robotics raises $30 million in new funding

September 5, 2018 by Sam Francis

Sarcos Robotics, which specializes in making exoskeletons for industry, has raised $30 million in new funding.

The new Series B funding is from a consortium of investors co-led by DIG Investment and Alex Brown & Sons.

Each of the company’s Series A investors also participated in this round, including Caterpillar Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund, GE Ventures, Microsoft, Schlumberger and Sarcos’ chairman and CEO, Ben Wolff. [Read more…] about Sarcos Robotics raises $30 million in new funding

Smart cities: Enticing visions of super-clean, safe and high-tech cities of the future

September 5, 2018 by Abdul Montaqim

Smart cities promise enormous improvements in the quality of life and huge efficiencies in the way large, metropolitan areas are run.

Technologies are being developed and implemented now that can help monitor and manage almost everything in a smart city, from waste and energy, to traffic and crime.

But, according to a McKinsey report, we are still currently “seeing only a preview” of what technology could eventually do in the urban environment. [Read more…] about Smart cities: Enticing visions of super-clean, safe and high-tech cities of the future

Alstom’s Taubaté site in Brazil resumes industrial activities

September 5, 2018 by Anna

Alstom is opening a new production line at its Taubaté site in Brazil to manufacture stainless steel carshells for the Santiago Metro, in Chile.

The company is resuming industrial activities at the site and hiring new employees, after halting activities following production of 32 Citadis tramways for Rio de Janeiro. The new project, named NS16, will deliver 35 new trains to the Santiago Metro.

The carshells, after being manufactured in Brazil, will be shipped to Alstom’s unit in Chile for final assembly before delivery to the customer.

SiTime and Bosch partner on innovation in MEMS timing for 5G and IoT

September 5, 2018 by Anna

SiTime Corporation and Bosch have announced a strategic technology partnership to accelerate innovation in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) timing.

SiTime will work with Bosch to develop processes for next-generation MEMS resonator products.

These MEMS resonators are the heartbeat of 5G, IoT and automotive electronics, and will enable the higher speeds of 5G, long battery life of IoT devices and increased reliability of driver assistance systems in the automotive industry.

Drive.ai to test autonomous car in Texas

September 5, 2018 by Anna

Drive.ai’s coming expansion of its self-driving car pilot to Arlington, Texas, isn’t its first driverless foray, but the testing, taking place between Dallas and Fort Worth, will validate its vehicles’ ability to handle a crowded entertainment district and process all the data that comes with it.

After launching its maiden pilot in nearby Frisco in July, Drive.ai said it would extend its ride-hailing trial to the south, with three autonomous vans offering free rides to Arlington residents and visitors for one year, starting 19 October.

The vans, which use Nvidia’s compute technology, will operate within a geo-fenced area, travelling up to 35 miles per hour with human supervisors on board for the initial phase.

Intel unveils ‘world’s densest’ and silent Solid State Drive

September 5, 2018 by Anna

Fast disappearing from data centres are power-hungry spinning hard disk drives that hum, buzz, run warm (or even hot), require fans and expensive cooling systems, and can crash unexpectedly.

Intel’s newest solid state drive, the PCIe-based QLC Intel SSD D5-P4326, is about the size of an old-fashioned 12-inch ruler, and can store 32 terabytes. That’s equivalent to triple the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress.

The new SSD is Intel’s densest drive ever, and is built on Intel 3D NAND technology, which stacks memory cells atop each other in multiple extremely thin layers, instead of just one. Memory cells in the D5-P4326 are stacked 64 layers deep.