06 Dec, 2023 Project Funding from the European Space Agency - ESA - for any sector! By Robert Carpmael I attended a fascinating event on Monday 4th December in which The Rail Innovation Group , Network Rail, the Department for Transport and...
01 Dec, 2023 TinyML: The future for AI? By Jeremy Russ In the linked article, the author discusses a little known sub-branch of machine learning referred to as TinyML. TinyML is concerned with...
10 Oct, 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...
07 Sep, 2023 UK rejoins Horizon and Copernicus programmes By Marks & Clerk In a boost to UK research that will be welcomed, not just by scientists based in the United Kingdom, but by research groups across...
18 Aug, 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...
06 Jul, 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"...
24 May, 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...
24 Apr, 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...
23 Feb, 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...
13 Dec, 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...
11 Oct, 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,...
10 Oct, 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...