26 March 2024 A UK start-is using robotic microfactories to build affordable, low-energy timber homes. London-based AUAR (Automated Architecture) plans to use the robots to tackle skills shortages,… Read More
19 February 2024 Siemens has bought the German visual inspection start-up Inspekto from its venture capitalist owner, D11Z Ventures, for an undisclosed sum. Inspekto has developed an AI-driven,… Read More
29 January 2024 A US company, Molg, which is developing robotic microfactories that can autonomously assemble and disassemble complex electronic products such as variable-speed drives, is one of… Read More
22 December 2022 A Dutch offshoot of the UK axial-flux motor developer Saietta is about to start production of an electrically powered outboard motor for boats that, it… Read More
17 October 2019 Rockwell Automation has announced a range of distributed motor controllers with built-in safety functions that can be mounted directly onto machines, allowing functional safety to… Read More
29 January 2019 The European Union has set up a consortium with the goal of creating 1,000 manufacturing start-up businesses, and training and upskilling 50,000 people across the… Read More
17 May 2016 At the recent Hannover Fair, the New Zealand soft-start specialist AuCom announced a “game-changing” range that, it predicts, will challenge industry approaches to fixed-speed motor… Read More
29 March 2016 The German mechanical power transmission specialist Ringfeder has set up a UK operation, located in Warrington, including a warehouse for time-sensitive spare parts. Adrian Birkin… Read More
8 February 2016 Europe’s electric motor efficiency regulations that came into force at the start of 2015 have not resulted in the expected boost to sales of high-efficiency… Read More
17 February 2014 Siemens has set up a $100m venture capital fund will that will invest in young and dynamic companies that “have the potential to change the… Read More
