Oct 10, 2023 Biometrics improving train safety By Robert Carpmael As you can imagine, while train drivers operate on our railways, driver fatigue remains a problem. There are plenty of politics...
Sep 07, 2023 UK rejoins Horizon and Copernicus programmes By Graham Burnett-Hall In a boost to UK research that will be welcomed, not just by scientists based in the United Kingdom, but by research groups across...
Aug 18, 2023 Let's talk TENGs By Aimee Cawley First of all, let's expand this acronym: a TENG is a triboelectric nanogenerator. And what is a triboelectric nanogenerator? It's a...
Jul 06, 2023 Hitachi signals even faster upgrades! By Robert Carpmael The rail industry likes to seek out innovative ways of improving the safety of personnel on the line. Hitachi's new "Over and Back"...
May 24, 2023 Exposure opportunity for start-ups through Advanced Engineering 2023 By Robert Carpmael If your company is a start-up working in the engineering and manufacturing space, you will likely be aware of the marketing opportunities...
Apr 24, 2023 A green light for flexible electronics By James Stott Aline Heyerick When plastic and the environment share a headline, it is not often in a positive context. Let the following context be an exception to...
Feb 23, 2023 Are papers and patents becoming less disruptive over time? By Caitlin Morris In January, Nature published an article on the disruptiveness of papers and patents over time. In this study they took data from 45...
Dec 13, 2022 Transport Research and Innovation Grants 2022 (TRIG 2022) now open to applicants By Robert Carpmael Today (13th December), Connected Places Catapult opened TRIG 2022 to applicants. The deadline for applications is 23:59 on 15 January...
Oct 11, 2022 The potential of an Aberdeenshire and Peterhead Green Freeport By Samuel Mailer By selecting the right innovations and incentivizing investment, Scotland’s Green Freeports could become incubators for new technologies,...
Oct 10, 2022 Digital Twins – Simulating agriculture for climate-positive farming and land management By Samuel Mailer With markedly increasing public awareness around the various contributing factors in climate change, it is no secret that agriculture and...
Oct 07, 2022 Launch of Smart Home standard hailed as an opportunity to "fundamentally change IoT" By Ed Round A new standard, Matter, has been released which offers a significant opportunity for smart home technology to become much more...
Jul 28, 2022 Internet of Things (IoT) comes to Scotland's rural roads By Pamela Bryer It's great to see the development of an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network to provide real-time monitoring of a vast number of rural...