National Instruments has opened registrations for the 2013 LabVIEW Developer Days, providing an opportunity for new or existing LabVIEW users to learn about time-saving tips and expert development techniques. [ + ]

Nyrstar Hobart, formerly known as the Electrolytic Zinc Works, has been recognised for its historic engineering significance with an Engineering Heritage National Marker. [ + ]

ABB has been recognised by MIT Technology Review for its hybrid high-voltage direct current (HVDC) breaker, placing it among the 10 most important technology milestones of the past year. [ + ]

Smart technology and big data will deliver productivity in the increasingly challenging Australian mining environment, research scientists say. [ + ]

Harvard researchers have developed an inexpensive tactile sensor for robotic hands that they say is sensitive enough to turn a brute machine into a dexterous manipulator. [ + ]

Honeywell has inaugurated a new Automation Solution Centre (ASC) in Singapore as a part of its global deployment of demonstration centres around the world. [ + ]

More than 20 student teams from leading universities across Australia and New Zealand will demonstrate their engineering and mechatronics skills on an international platform in the 2013 National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC). [ + ]

Global water technology company Xylem has acquired Multitrode, a privately owned Australia-based water and wastewater technology and services company. [ + ]

Honeywell today announced that it has been selected by Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water to modernise the water distribution network that supplies more than 1.2 billion litres of fresh water daily to Kuwait’s growing population. [ + ]

Power and automation technology group ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel at the Ichthys oil and gas field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia. [ + ]

Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots which allows robots connected to the internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage and communications infrastructure of modern data centres. [ + ]

GE Oil & Gas has received a US$620 million, 22-year contractual service agreement to provide a broad range of advanced technology services for QGC’s Queensland Curtis LNG plant. [ + ]

Five-fingered robot hand can not only grip but gesture. [ + ]

ABB has won an order to provide the electrical equipment, including its new gearless conveyor drives, for Codelco’s largest operation in Chile. [ + ]

Rodolfo Ortiz, General Manager of Turck’s Mexico operations, has recently been awarded top executive honours for 2012 by ARCHOS, the regional human resources organisation for Southeast Coahuila. [ + ]