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Self-navigating tugger trains are being piloted to narrow the gap between individual warehouses and assembly areas – image courtesy of BMW Group.

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How is every single link in the BMW supply chain being tightened?

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Nottingham Trent University creates robots that perform better spinal surgery

Japan to scrap ban on British beef and lamb

A SunEdison solar project - image courtesy of SunEdison and PRNewsWire.

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Solar power brings cool solution to vaccine preservation problem

Most sustainable companies The capacity of offshore windfarms nearly doubled over 2018. Among the new offshore wind farms was the Walney Extension, the largest offshore wind farm in the world - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Manufacturing helps the UK reach record levels of renewable energy production

The MiR200 base robots moving around Factory 2050 independently during trials - image courtesy of AMRC.

Airbus working to transport aircraft wing assemblies autonomously in Wales

Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) is set to revolutionise AI. It is designed for Machine Intelligence and delivers between 10x and 100x greater speed compared to today's hardware - image courtesy of Pixabay

UK chipmaker Graphcore raises $200m in unicorn funding

“The prospects for engineers in universities are extremely rosy,” says WEAF CEO

The robotics market, due to the increase in demand for artificially intelligent robots, is estimated to grow by almost 14% annually from 2016 to 2025

AI and robotics: don’t think of asking for faster horses