congatec has shown its heatpipe cooling system for Computer-on-Module (COMs) for the first time. The cooling system uses acetone as a working fluid in the heat pipes instead of water to cool processors used in autonomous and conventional vehicles that are exposed...

A team from the University of Córdoba in Spain is developing an autonomous tractor with three different steering modes, allowing it to drive in straight lines, make turns efficiently, and shift modes in response to its trajectories. The Sergius robot tractor...

A new low power sensing technique allows a UAV to determine its position, in indoor, dark, and low-visibility environments for autonomous navigation. The MiFLy system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) uses millimetre wave radio...

Dryad in Germany is developing a UAV system that can detect and even extinguish fires before they take hold. The company has developed a network of solar-powered gas sensors called Silvanet, linked by a low power, long range mesh wireless...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are spectacularly effective sources of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) information, but they all rely on low-power, short-wavelength radio signals that are vulnerable to spoofing and jamming...

The value of UAVs for mapping and inspection is directly linked to the efficiency with which they carry their sensor payloads. While this has been known for years, it is only recently that advances in modern design capabilities have enabled aerospace engineers to pursue alternatives...

Small UAVs have carved themselves a dominant position in modern land warfare of late, with both sides in the Ukraine War using them for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. The war has been characterised by demanding physical conditions...

All around the world, connector manufacturers are building factories and hiring people to cope with booming demand for their products as uncrewed vehicles and other high-end vehicular and electronic systems are output in greater quantities...

Since the first AUVs were developed in US universities between the 1950s and 1970s, new UUV systems have been engineered and deployed in every ocean around the world, gathering priceless data for defence, offshore industry, scientific research and...

With regulations in the EU aimed at curbing and eventually eliminating internal combustion engines in road vehicles, the future of European engines – and particularly the expertise and innovative capacity around them – is likely to lie not amidst the automotive...