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U.S. Marine Corps testing autonomy system for helicopters

Robotics Business Review

Marine Corps’ Aerial Logistics Connection (ACL) program, transporting various types of cargo and serving in casualty evacuation roles, operating in both crewed and uncrewed configurations. Specifically, the 20-month initiative will highlight the rapid deployment of cargo up to 3,000 lb. over a 200 NM radius. . The post U.S.

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‘Drones are better for the planet than traditional means of transport’: Alex Landowski, Medical Logistics

E&T

Medical Logistics has been instrumental in the first UAV flight-corridor trial in the UK for delivering time-critical medical cargo to an NHS hospital. So, I quit my job in early 2017 and began to get used to being a business owner providing healthcare logistics in London.” I’m an entrepreneur.

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Flying cars and hyperloops?

E&T

His target is 10 billion miles, which is about 50 per cent more than the total miles driven worldwide in 2017. One option for kickstarting the use of ammonia as a maritime fuel is to adapt the tankers that carry the gas to plants that make fertiliser: they can simply divert some of the cargo to the fuel lines. Why is ammonia better?

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Investment Trends in Decarbonization

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

trillion in 2017 to USD 1.3 which require high amounts of energy for production, concerns around energy security and imperatives around climate change and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Global clean energy spending has been ramping up and these investments have increased from an estimated USD 1.0 CAGR during the same period.