Uncertain Waters Ahead for Unmanned Ships
Driverless transport seems poised to disrupt.
Amazon and pizza companies are conducting early tests to use airborne drones for bringing packages to customers’ doors. Google and others are building autonomous cars that don’t take sick days or get paid by the hour. Trucking analysts, meanwhile, anticipate the day when convoys of robotic semis haul freight over highways.
Locos by numbers, from Pilbara to Port
From Pilbara to port – along the iron ore trail
From Pilbara to port – along the iron ore trail
Industrial Internet Helps the Trains Run on Time
Trawling for Big Insight in the ‘Industrial Data Lake’
The Prelude FLNG: Titan technology rides the waves
In a remote basin about 200 kilometres off the coast of north-western Australia, Shell is building a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant on a scale that almost defies description. Prelude, named after the gas field where it will first operate, is set to rip up the manuals of natural gas production.
Prelude is 488 metres long and 74 metres wide, making it the biggest floating facility ever launched. If you cleared the decks it would comfortably hold four football fields back to back.
State of Business: Simplify or Ossify
How big data could enhance Caterham’s performance on the F1 track
The car uses intercoolers developed in Germany, carbon fibre composites and fibre optic sensors from the United States, and big data analysis techniques developed in India.
It also has the backing of the GE Global Research team, which worked with the crew from last year to intelligently integrate these technologies.
Electric Transportation: The Future is Now
But it’s electricity’s role in powering various other transportation applications that’s rarely discussed. The good news, though, is that the conversation is finally changing.