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Dec 16, 2024 · The rapid evolution of AI has been upending industries at an unprecedented rate. And in 2025, we are poised to witness another leap forward, as AI becomes integral to the fields of simulation and digital twin technologies.

Nov 26, 2024 · The robotics landscape is shifting dramatically as we close out 2024. Autonomous mobile robots are transforming warehouse operations, drone delivery networks are expanding across the UK's skies, and collaborative robots are increasingly common on factory floors.

Apr 2, 2024 · Whilst The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey points to a notable 13 per cent increase in average salaries, workers are increasingly keen to explore fresh opportunities both home and overseas.

Nov 5, 2024 · Commissioned by energy secretary Ed Miliband, the Clean Power in 2030 (CP30) Report is NESO’s first significant policy contribution since it was spun out of National Grid Plc in October 2024, becoming a fully public entity. NESO said achieving CP30 is ‘challenging but achievable’ and that clean sources can produce at least as much power as the island of Great Britain consumes by 2030.

Feb 5, 2024 · Two decades is a long time in technology. When the Zephyr high-altitude platform station (HAPS) first took to the skies over Australia in 2005, it had a flight time endurance of about six hours.Originally developed by QinetiQ, that initial vehicle weighed just 17kg, had a wingspan of 12m and operated at a ceiling of around 9,000m.

Sep 6, 2023 · Stroll along Soho’s Frith Street and before long you’ll find a famous old café called Bar Italia. Look up and to the right of the first-floor window, and you’ll see a blue plaque put there by the London County Council on which are written the words: ‘In 1926 in this house John Logie Baird first demonstrated television’.

Dec 5, 2024 · The battery was developed via a collaboration of Bristol University with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Harnessing UKAEA’s fusion research, scientists and engineers from both organisations worked together to build a plasma deposition rig, a specialised apparatus used for growing the diamond at UKAEA’s Culham Campus.

Nov 28, 2024 · The collaboration between AI design specialists EvoPhase and precision metal fabricators Kwik Fab provides a solution to the design and production of small-scale, affordable, generators of wind energy.. EvoPhase used its AI-driven design process to generate and test designs for their efficiency at wind speeds found in Birmingham, which, at 3.6m/s are lower than the 10m/s rating for most turbines.

Nov 21, 2024 · The modernisation of the UK’s railways has been a hot topic in recent years and months, thanks to Labour’s pledge to renationalise most railway services within five years after the Conservative government’s controversial part-cancellation of the high-speed HS2 railway.. The question of modernisation extends from speed and comfort to sustainability and covers both passenger travel and ...