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  • Cavotec RRCs See Role on Small Screen

    We have written about our Radio Remote Controls (RRC) before. With such a wide range of applications, we have something new to share quite often. We have seen our RRCs control oil skimmers, an unmanned vessel, Goldhofer vehicles and heavy machinery used to clear munitions from a NATO test range in Norway.

  • Supersonic Car Seeks to Inspire Generation of Engineers

    Supersonic Car Seeks to Inspire Generation of Engineers

    We start 2011 by going supersonic with news of the BLOODHOUND supersonic car (SSC) project that hopes to inspire a new generation of engineers, innovators and inventors: with a car designed to reach speeds of 1,000 mph, or Mach 1.4, an extraordinary 240 mph faster than the existing land speed record.

  • Plain Sailing for Remote Controlled Unmanned Vessel

    Cavotec Micro-control and unmanned surface vehicle (USV) manufacturer, Maritime Robotics, successfully held a demonstration of a radio remote controlled (RRC) unmanned vessel – Mariner USV – off the coast of Trondheim, Norway, earlier this week.

  • Port Hedland MoorMaster™ Update

    Port Hedland MoorMaster™ Update

    Commissioning of the 14 MoorMaster™ MM200B (bulk) units at Port Hedland in Western Australia is proceeding smoothly, with full hand-over expected in the coming weeks. On September 29, the 225m iron carrier Huang Shan Hai was successfully moored and held without ropes.