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Read our latest research and insights to help you see beyond the innovation hype and find out how emerging technologies are solving important business problems.
A breakthrough in advanced optical sensing
The ability to count and track individual units of light can have an exciting range of applications across medtech and beyond, as a recent collaboration with Cambridge University has proved ...
Want to benefit from automation? Start early, and think big – E+T
A holistic approach is essential to making sure that the security of machines involved in a large-scale autonomous project can be trusted ...
Revolutionising health monitoring could just be the start for photonics
Photonics promises to revolutionise health monitoring. Here, Tom Watson explores the wider potential in personalised medicine – and provides insight into overcoming the key challenges that lie ahead ...
Six insights into successful medical device design
Designing a medical device is a challenging creative task. Not only must it be safe, reliable, easy to use and have market appeal, the product design must be accepted into people’s lifestyles ...
Learning to learn: machine learning is improving, but it is about to get a whole lot better – AI Business
While full AI consciousness might be some ways off, there are some exciting developments. The need to train machines more quickly, efficiently, and less expensively is a pressing imperative ...
Getting the right distributed data architecture for you
To decentralise, or not to decentralise, that is the question. This Web3 dilemma reflects the likely thoughts of current digital leaders who want to make the best use of their digital assets while maintaining trust in their data systems ...
Digital services must ensure that autonomy fits human society
They are already physically loading our online shopping baskets, vacuuming our homes and maintaining our lawns. But what will it take for automated and autonomous systems to proliferate across industry and society – on the roads, city streets, building sites, ...
AI assurance for innovators of autonomous systems
Just how safe is artificial intelligence? Those of you of a sensitive disposition might be recalling James Cameron’s self-aware Terminators in a post-nuclear wasteland. If you need some ‘AI assurance’, read on ...
Resolving cybersecurity in digital transformation
Digital transformation surges on. But alarm bells are still ringing around cybersecurity, a vital area of commercial concern where attackers only have to exploit one weakness, but defenders have to protect everything ...
