
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

Closing the loop for true ploughing automation
If your business is making agricultural equipment, you’d be forgiven a wry smile at the ongoing frustrations of automotive OEMs as they strive to develop autonomous vehicles
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Robotics
- Sensing

How to increase profitability in indoor farming
Indoor farming promises high yield, high quality and locally-grown crops. But despite steadily decreasing operating costs, many crops are still not profitable. So, where are the innovation opportunities to drive down costs...
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing

The future of vertical farming: the intelligent ecosystem
Vertical farming promises a step change in production density, providing significant efficiency savings with the additional benefit of improved product quality. Vertical farming also presents the only viable option for growing crops within urban environments...
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing

Identifying breakthrough innovations that will transform the supply chain
Products are incorporating increasingly complex technology, putting greater pressure on the supply chain. As a result, gaps are forming and the risk to reputations and revenues is growing through issues such as...
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Electronics & ASICs
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Tracking & location

CC and The Engine venture ecosystem: an alignment of ambition
Our brand relaunch has landed just as we ramp up our commitment to The Engine, the ambitious venture capital firm spun out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to support ‘Tough Tech’ companies and solve key challenges in climate change, human health and advanced systems. What’s particularly energizing is that as a strategic partner, we get to engage with founders of disruptive start-ups who are so passionate, driven and mission focused. The alignment with our own renewed purpose couldn’t be stronger.
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Connectivity & IoT
- Robotics
- Sensing

Is highly equivalent simulation the answer to faster autonomous system development?
Simulation is only as good as its approximation to the real world… its ‘equivalence’ in technical terms. We’ve been looking at how using intelligent simulation with a modular framework can deliver results faster to drive autonomous system development forward.
- AI & Analytics
- Robotics

Autonomous mobile robots navigating dynamic environments
The world is about to experience significant progress in AI-enabled autonomous mobile systems. Could autonomous mobile robots navigating dynamic environments open up new automation opportunities for industry?
- AI & Analytics
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Tracking & location

Should robots control accuracy and precision in surgery?
Philosophically speaking, should we be designing systems that autonomously control both accuracy and precision for the best outcome of the patient? Andy Savarese explores some of the deeper questions that are starting to be asked by clients – and looks ahead as the role of robotics continues to evolve.
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
- Robotics

‘So when are the robots coming?’ Industry is ready and willing to accelerate the adoption of automation
All the drivers are in place. The unprecedented global labor shortage, the sky-high consumer demand, the advanced technology capabilities and the willingness of businesses and VCs to invest are all combining to transformative effect. The world is primed and ready to accelerate the adoption of robotics and automation.
- AI & Analytics
- Product realisation
- Robotics

Facing up the scalability challenge in warehouse and logistics automation
The rate of innovation and adoption of automation & autonomous systems in non-manufacturing segments is growing faster and investments are pouring in. AMR’s (Automated Mobile Robots) are working alongside people in warehouses and helping in improving productivity. But, is this enough?
- AI & Analytics
- Product realisation
- Robotics
- Sensing

Data analytics is the key to unlocking new revenue streams from carbon farming
With the Cop26 summit in Glasgow providing a noisy, politically charged backdrop via the mainstream media, there was a real sense of relevance and urgency in the air as I contributed to last week’s virtual REAP Conference, organised by Agri-TechE.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Sustainability

Our robot navigation algorithm could open up a route to new automation opportunities for industry
It’s a common fallacy that the task of perfecting navigation for robots and autonomous vehicles is relatively straightforward.
- AI & Analytics
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Tracking & location