The UKESF and its partners have promoted gender parity in engineering this year with scholarship awards for female undergrads in STEM. Electronic engineers are in high demand, yet there remains a significant gender imbalance in the sector. Indeed, only 12% of the UK’s engineering workforce is female. This year, the foundation teamed up with The ...
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Nordic Semiconductor’s multi-sensor IoT prototyping kit Nordic Thingy:91 is now available at Rutronik UK. Designed for IoT applications based on the nRF9160 SiP (system-in-package), the kit features the nRF52840 for short-range radio connection and a range of sensors and interfaces, designed for rapid prototyping and proof of concept. It’s suitable for applications including logistics and ...
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Nesta and the Department for Education have launched the £5.75 million CareerTech challenge. The challenge aims to find “cutting edge innovations that will equip adults across England with the right tools and skills to find rewarding future employment”. With one fifth of UK workers currently in occupations that will be affected by automation over the ...
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During a press event at its Hatfield branch on 15 October, Mitsubishi Electric unveiled the Melfa Assista series of collaborative robots, or “cobots”. The machines are designed to offer safety and durability combined with ease of use and programming, while maintaining high positional repeatability. Mitsubishi stressed, however, its cobots are not designed to replace its ...
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ON Semiconductor and AImotive, are to work together to develop prototype sensor fusion platforms for automotive applications. The collaboration will help customers explore integrated solutions for future generations of sensor data conditioning hardware platforms. The companies plan to develop a series of hardware platform demonstrators, combining ON’s latest HD camera and radar sensor and pre-processor ...
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Fujitsu and Carnegie Mellon have developed an AI facial expression recognition technology that detects subtle changes in facial expression with a high degree of accuracy. Figure 1: Shows the relationship between AU and facial expression. Figure 2: Developed Technology One of the obstacles for facial expression recognition technology is the difficulty in providing large amounts ...
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Infineon intends to sample a new member of its automotive microcontroller family AURIX in 2022. TC3A will address new automotive 77 GHz radar applications such as high-end corner radar systems for advanced driver assistance systems and automated driving. Features include a new signal processing unit, 6MB of SRAM memory dedicated to radar and four TriCore processors running ...
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DALTON, GA—The South Korean company Hanwha Q Cells USA has opened the largest solar module manufacturing plant in North America. The $200 million factory will employ 650 people and produce enough solar panels each year to generate as much peak power as the Hoover Dam.
