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Can You Operate a Crane from Your Smartphone?

Krystle RichardsonJune 19, 2017

While the tower cranes that craft our city skylines are capable of building themselves, they still need a whole lot of human assistance. And, while we're seein...

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This Machine Can 3D Print You a House in a Day

Krystle RichardsonJune 19, 2017

While they're certainly not the first to engage 3D printers in the construction industry, Apis Cor (a company so tech obsessed, they even had a robot do the voi...

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Digital Dependency: the Future For Construction?

Krystle RichardsonJune 12, 2017

In the developed world, we are privileged enough to be able to jokingly (but kind of a little seriously) consider WiFi as a basic human need. A new announc...

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How Can One Machine Lay 300 Bricks in a Minute?

Krystle RichardsonJune 7, 2017

Tech Radar, and a few other smaller blogs and Facebook pages, have been sharing videos of a pretty impressive looking machine. The SnPC Machines BMM150 is a rol...

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Exoskeletons Give Workers Superhuman Strength

Emmanuel MarshallMay 31, 2017

Robots have been in the headlines a lot recently, with some very cool looking prototypes popping up in Kickstarter campaigns and tech blogs. A few months ago t...

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Floating on Air: How Suspension Seating Can Save Your Back

Krystle RichardsonMay 30, 2017

After a long, hard day operating a big piece of machinery—tractor, truck, excavator, giant mechanical worm, whatever your rig may be—you can come away feeling m...

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High-Tech AR Helmets Win-Win For Workers & Cost-Cutters Alike

Josh ParrenoMay 18, 2017

In Industry 4.0, the technological advancement of machines in the workplace is a constantly evolving process. And in the strive for efficiency through automatio...

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The Technology That Can Help You Fool-Proof Your Excavator

Krystle RichardsonMay 17, 2017

Since the late seventies, Trimble have been at the forefront of the tech revolution, pushing the wave forward with their global positioning and navigation syste...

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Our Verdict on Takeuchi’s Remixed Vertical Lift Loader

Krystle RichardsonMay 17, 2017

Remixing is a dubious concept, capable of great good but also great evil. In the world of music, it is responsible for U2's hideous butchering of Credence's For...

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Adjust-a-Bucket: Saving You Money and Doing it with Style

Krystle RichardsonMay 16, 2017

One look at Adjust-a-Bucket's stall at the Diesel Dirt and Turf Expo and we could tell this company's take on the world was out of the ordinary. Fifties-style p...

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Australia’s Largest Attachment: The OSA RS 12000 Crusher

Krystle RichardsonMay 16, 2017

Between them, OSA and Boss attachments, cut an impressive figure in the demolition industry. Their strategic partnership is aimed at improving safety while redu...

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A (Not So) Boring Machine Story

Dave RauschenfelsMay 15, 2017

This is a really (not so) boring story about Elon Musk’s new venture, the Boring Company. Musk, who is the modern day Iron Man founder of Paypal, Tesla, and Spa...

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Can You Operate a Crane from Your Smartphone?

This Machine Can 3D Print You a House in a Day

Digital Dependency: the Future For Construction?

How Can One Machine Lay 300 Bricks in a Minute?

Exoskeletons Give Workers Superhuman Strength

Floating on Air: How Suspension Seating Can Save Your Back

High-Tech AR Helmets Win-Win For Workers & Cost-Cutters Alike

The Technology That Can Help You Fool-Proof Your Excavator

Our Verdict on Takeuchi’s Remixed Vertical Lift Loader

Adjust-a-Bucket: Saving You Money and Doing it with Style

Australia’s Largest Attachment: The OSA RS 12000 Crusher

A (Not So) Boring Machine Story