LANSING — At Tuesday’s final scheduled meeting of 2017, the Michigan Strategic Fund board approved assistance to American Haval Motor Technology LLC is a subsidiary of Great Wall Motor Company Ltd., China’s largest manufacturer of SUVs. The company plans to establish a research and development center in Farmington Hills, investing $3.5 million. As a result, the
ANN ARBOR — The North American automation market set new records through the first nine months of 2017, according to the Association for Advancing Automation, the Ann Arbor-based advocate for the benefits of automating. Results found records set in the areas of robotics, machine vision, motion control, and motor technology. The findings: Robotics For the
ZEELAND — Auto electronics supplier Gentex Corp. announced it has provided several electronics components for the latest autonomous and connected car concept vehicle from the Swiss car design firm Rinspeed. The vehicle, called Snap, would allow users to summon a vehicle-sized “skateboard” unit containing the powertrain, which would dock with personalized passenger “pods” customized for
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Technology hiring in Detroit should start off strong in 2018, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Forecast and Local Trend Report. According to the report, generated by the technology staffing business unit of the Menlo Park, Calif.-based human resources firm, fully 20 percent of Detroit-area CIOs surveyed said they
DETROIT – The North American International Auto Show announced Thursday that 57 automotive technology startups will showcase their technologies as part of the NAIAS’ startup event, AutoMobili-D. 2018 NAIAS Chairman Ryan LaFontaine, CEO of the LaFontaine Automotive Group in Highland Township, noted that the number of startups exhibiting is up nearly 40 percent from the event’s
EAST LANSING — See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as bigger, bulkier rooftop solar units, scientists report in a recent issue of the scientific journal Nature Energy. Led by engineering researchers at Michigan State University, the authors argue that
DETROIT — The virtual reality development company Pixo VR premiered its training platform for emergency management and first response teams at the Emerging Technologies Symposium for Emergency Solutions hosted earlier this month by Concordia University in Portland, Ore. Pixo was one of five companies selected to demonstrate the range of VR options for training emergency responders in
ROYAL OAK - Hsiao-Ping Moore, PhD, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lawrence Technological University talks about a very exclusive, competitive grant LTU just received from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to both boost research experiences for our undergraduates, and to increase diversity among STEAM majors. Hsiao-Ping More, PhD, Dean Of
DETROIT — The challenges and opportunities for smaller manufacturers of lightweighting – the effort to develop and use advanced lightweight materials in manufacturing – will be addressed in a Detroit conference Tuesday, Nov. 21. The event will be held at the Detroit headquarters of Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), the federal government’s flagship manufacturing research
SOUTHFIELD — Secure-24 - formally, Secure-24 Intermediate Holdings Inc. - will soon be purchased by a $94.2 billion Japanese telecommunications giant. The buyer of Secure-24, a provider of a wide range of managed IT services, is NTT Communications Corp., the communications division of Tokyo-based NTT Group, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT is the
