January 2021

A new type of hollow-core optical fibre makes light-based gyroscopes up to 500 times more stable by eliminating sources of noise. If optimized, devices based on these so-called nodeless anti-resonant fibres could find use in next-generation civil navigation systems. Fibre-optic gyroscopes (FOGs) rely on a pair of laser beams travelling in opposite directions around the […]

Mining has entered a robotics boom as developers take substantial strides in AI, use of drones, and data capture and analysis technology that will deliver safety improvements and better managed mines, says Queensland Robotics executive chairman Andrew Scott. He told an IMDEX Xploration Technology Symposium that with the development of autonomous haulage and drilling technology,

Lighting up our skies for the first time back in April 2020, and coming to British homes as early as this year, the revolutionary US-based satellite broadband service Starlink has won licensing approval from Ofcom to operate in the UK. Owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and run through his commercial aerospace company SpaceX, the

An increase in Internet traffic during the pandemic, fibre optics, competition on the cloud… 2020 has seen many advances in connectivity but three major challenges remain. Africa’s digital economy will surely remember 2020 as some kind of huge pop quiz which received the following feedback: “Solid achievements to build on.” COVID-19 has indeed led to