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XAG reveals new drones and robots for agriculture
Guangzhou, China. 27 Dec 2021 – On 22 December, XAG Annual Conference 2021 was held in Guangzhou, China with the theme “Step into Agrifuture”, which launched a series of agricultural innovations to empower farmers with more sophisticated autonomous solutions. Five new products, including the XAG P50 and P100 Agricultural Drone, XAG M500 and M2000 Remote Sensing Drone, and the updated XAG R150 Unmanned Ground Vehicle, are released in China and will be available for global sales in 2022.
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RoboSense reached partnership with Horizon Robotics
Shenzhen, China – RoboSense announced a strategic partnership with Horizon Robotics, a global provider of edge AI computing platforms. The two partners will mobilise their respective technological capacity and mass production experience to roll out in-depth cooperation focusing on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous driving, robotics, new intelligent transportation infrastructure and other applications.
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Darwin and Telefónica Tech collaborate on cybersecurity of connected autonomous vehicles
Madrid. 22 December 2021 – Communications R&D company Darwin Innovation Group and Telefonica Tech, Telefonica’s digital business unit, have signed a strategic agreement to develop a security solution for connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) with technology that combines satellite and terrestrial channels to achieve greater coverage.
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The installed base of off-highway vehicle telematics systems will reach 10.7mn units worldwide by 2025
Gothenburg, Sweden. 23 December 2021 – Berg Insight estimates that the global installed base of active off-highway vehicle telematics systems reached 5.2 million units in 2020. This includes connected units deployed on various off-highway vehicles across the construction, mining, agriculture and forestry sectors.
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IR HiRel returns to deep space with James Webb Space Telescope
Munich, Germany, and El Segundo, California. 23 December 2021 – 25 December, NASA plans to launch James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at 12:20 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is 7:20 am local time at the launch site, 1:20 pm Central European Time, and 4:20 am Pacific Standard Time.
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The Hamburg Port Authority and HERE improve truck traffic management in the Port of Hamburg
Amsterdam/Hamburg. 22 December 2021 – The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) collaborates with HERE Technologies, the location data and technology platform, to better manage truck traffic in the Port of Hamburg.
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IVECO and Plus announce autonomous trucking pilot in Europe and China
London, UK and Cupertino, CA, USA. 20 December 2021 — IVECO, the commercial vehicles brand of CNH Industrial, joined Plus (formerly Plus.ai), a global provider of self-driving truck technology, as their European partner for the launch of a pilot in Europe and China, to begin the validation and integration of Plus’s autonomous trucking technology with IVECO’s S-WAY heavy-duty truck.
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Car-lite and Sigfox launch an intelligent light beacon based on the 0g network
Madrid, Spain – Sigfox, a IoT communication service provider and 0G network provider, and CAR-LITE, a Spanish company in the design and manufacture of emergency signalling beacons for cars, have launched a new smart beacon model base on IoT technology and Sigfox 0G network.
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GPR appoints former Daimler Trucks president and CEO Roger Nielsen to advisory board
Somerville, Mass. 16 December 2021 – GPR, the provider of Ground Positioning Radar for precise vehicle localisation, announced Roger Nielsen, former president and CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, has joined the company’s advisory board.
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