
FedEx to test autonomous drone cargo deliveries with new Elroy Air system
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx, is working with California-based aerial cargo startup Elroy Air to launch test flights for autonomous drone cargo deliveries in 2023. The deal is billed …

MGA Tech taps Edzcom (taps Nokia) for 5G-based Industry 4.0 co-creation platform
Custom-machine manufacturer MGA Technologies has engaged Finland-based industrial networking specialist Edzcom, owned by Spanish tower company Cellnex, to deploy a private 5G network from Nokia at its new MGA TechLab …

Green business is good business – the six most sustainable smart factories
It is a silly headline, and an opt-in competition, but the World Economic Forum’s list of ‘lighthouse factories’, acknowledged for their use of Industry 4.0 kit, now stretches to 103 …

Delays? What delays? Keysight rubbishes talk of an industrial 5G logjam
Maybe it is just the way we ask the questions, but… test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has sought, effectively, to dispel any rumour and disquiet in the ranks about …

Vodafone and Nokia install private 5G at UK marine-tech testbed on Plymouth Sound
Vodafone and Nokia have deployed a private LTE and 5G network to underpin “the world’s first marine-focused 5G testbed” in the UK port city of Plymouth, on the Devon coast. …

New Solinftec agricultural AI inspection robots roll into GROWMARK fields in the US
Agricultural tech provider Solinftec is working with agricultural cooperative GROWMARK in the US to deploy and develop its new automated field robot during the 2022 farming season, “from planting to …

‘The build is the easy bit’ – Vodafone on what is missing with private 5G for Industry 4.0
Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from Vodafone and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on …

Volvo Cars uses artificial intelligence for automated inspection in the US
The system utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to check tires, underbody components and vehicle exteriors Volvo Cars USA announced a new program to equip U.S. retailers with automated …

The three use cases that have turned Industry 4.0 onto private 5G networks
As with the telecoms industry’s travails with NB-IoT, only just starting to resolve, there is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario with industrial 5G, around availability of networks and devices. In other …

Rogers Communications inks deal to focus on 5G autonomous cars R&D
Rogers said that researchers will have the possibility to use machine learning techniques combined with traffic modeling and simulations Canadian operator Rogers Communications has signed a two-year partnership with …