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Wearable Robotic Exoskeletons to Boost Safety and Performance in Labor-Intensive Jobs: Hyundai and Sarcos Robotics
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Perovskite Solar Cells: Wearable and Driveable Solar Power?
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Bioengineering in Carbon Capture and Storage
In-Space Assembly: Cost-Effectively Building Spacecraft and Habitats Beyond Earth
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How Viable is Asteroid Mining and Can the Extraordinary Cost be Recovered?

Canadian Solar could earn $2.3 billion through acquisition of Recurrent Energy

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Canadian Solar has bought Recurrent Energy, a California-based subsidiary of Japan’s Sharp Corporation, for $265 million. Canadian Solar, one of the top ten solar panel makers worldwide, is headquartered in […]

Manufacturing slowdown reflects oil and dollar declines

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Canada’s manufacturing sector experienced a “sharp slowdown” in January according to the latest data from the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), with manufacturers apparently feeling the effects of […]

Canada-US trade as it should be, but diversification desirable: report

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Talk of reducing Canada’s over-reliance on trade with its biggest partner goes back at least as far as the time of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. As prime minister in the 1970s […]

Researchers fly first hybrid-electric aircraft with in-flight battery recharging

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Even after years of development and marketing, electric and hybrid cars remain a niche market for auto makers, accounting for less than 1 per cent of car sales worldwide. Compared […]

Irving Shipbuilding wins $2.3 billion icebreaker contract with navy

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Irving Shipbuilding of Halifax today signed a contract worth $2.3 billion with the government of Canada for the building of six Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS). The six Arctic ships […]

Saudi solar-powered desalination plant will be world’s largest

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The world currently produces approximately 30 billion cubic metres of freshwater by desalination annually, a number that is predicted to double in the next decade to meet global demand. A […]

Manufacturing sales off in November led by cars, chemicals

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Despite declining by 1.4 per cent in November, Canada’s manufacturing sales for the first eleven months of the year remain 5.2 per cent higher than for the same period last […]

Ontario engineers facing crisis of under-employment

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The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) says that too many engineering graduates are underemployed, i.e., working in jobs that don’t necessarily require a university degree. The engineers group had […]

FedDev money for GTA aerospace company; Bombardier cutting losses on Learjet

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A Mississauga aerospace company is the latest GTA beneficiary of government largesse. Koss Aerospace, which makes structural components such as wing ribs, bulk heads and seat tracks for aircraft makers […]

Promise of more investment in auto industry but no specifics

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Industry Minister James Moore reminded CEOs of Ford, Honda and Toyota that Canada is a good place to build cars. This is the same message that was preached at Linamar […]

Government money to Ontario auto parts maker will ensure jobs

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Canada’s second-largest auto parts maker, Linamar, has agreed to maintain a minimum of 6,870 jobs at its Ontario facilities in exchange for an investment of just over $101 million by […]

NASA and Nissan to build autonomous vehicles together

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Many common devices, especially medical ones, that we take for granted today were once thought highly innovative, even futuristic. The US space agency NASA has been responsible for quite a […]

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