
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

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

From R&D to ROI - opening remarks from AI Summit Silicon Valley 2021
Cambridge Consultants' Ram Naidu, Senior Vice President, AI, welcomes attendees to the Innovation Acceleration stage at The AI Summit Silicon Valley 2021, day one.
- AI & Analytics

Digital service innovation can ensure that autonomy fits in with 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, fields, factories, and schools?
- AI & Analytics
- Cloud/scalable systems
- Digital service innovation
- User Experience (UX)

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

Start early and think big – how to ensure the security of your automated and autonomous machines can be trusted
The coming world of automated and autonomous machines will transform how we live, travel, work and engage with the world.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital security
- Industrial design
- Robotics

Turning trash to cash: microalgae cultivation to mitigate environmental waste impact
This paper explains how ‘turning trash into cash’ provides opportunity for companies to gain first-mover advantage in several fields. With a clear, problem/solution approach, it outlines a method that be considered simply as a way to capture carbon – but is more likely to yield benefits in the creation of valuable bio-derived compounds.
- Bioinnovation
- Sustainability

AI safety might be a worry, but innovators of autonomous systems have no need to panic
Now don’t be alarmed, but I want to pose a potentially unnerving question: just how safe is artificial intelligence? Those of you of a sensitive disposition might already be recalling images of James Cameron’s self-aware Terminators hunting down humankind in a post-nuclear wasteland.
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital security
- Industrial design
- Strategic advice

Automation to autonomy: navigating the path to success
Extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, wireless connectivity and edge compute are opening up transformative commercial opportunities for all sorts of businesses. Now is the time to seize them. This whitepaper could act as your window on the future – offering as it does a practical guide to navigating the road from automation to autonomy.
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital security
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

From emissions to sequestration, how does your product’s carbon modelling shape up?
Over a series of discussions with clients on sustainability we’ve been building a quick and accessible modelling tool to model the carbon cost implications of typical high-volume products across a variety of markets.
- AI & Analytics
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice
- Sustainability

Our sustainable materials database is enabling innovation in the drive to net zero
The ambition to reduce or eliminate single-use plastics from the world’s supply chains is of course as laudable as it is essential. I’m proud to be part of a team of colleagues dedicated to doing something about it – by creating a guide that is helping innovators switch to alternatives.
- Bioinnovation
- Innovation management
- Product realisation
- Sustainability

Rethinking Materials – it’s time to deliver some wins in packaging sustainability
With the world becoming increasingly impatient for a great sustainability reset, last week’s inaugural Rethinking Materials Virtual Summit did a pretty decent job at starting to shape the agenda for innovation in plastics and packaging over the next five or so years.
- Bioinnovation