
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

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

Idea to Reality: What does it take to develop and deploy a solution to the agri sector?
Take a look at this exciting panel discussion where we debated why there is a lack of agri-technology being rolled out when there is a massive demand from the end users.
- Connectivity & IoT
- Robotics
- Sensing

Building the digital freak to reshape the energy economy
The figures are stark. To limit the climate to 1.5°C warming, yet still enable living standards in the developing world to continue to rise, the world must remove carbon emissions at a rate of around 10% every year.
- AI & Analytics
- Cloud/scalable systems
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Optics
- Robotics

Land.Technik - International Conference on Agricultural Engineering
Watch Dr. Simon Jordan talk about 3D Colour Vision for Machine Automation and Safety through AI Sensor Fusion and learn how high resolution, high integrity depth data for path planning, autonomy and safety can be produced by fusing conventional RGB and low resolution lidar data.
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Sensing

Synthetic data and simulation for real-world business advantage
Today… getting your product to market first is more important than ever!!! In fact, it is vital for the survival your organisation’s future!!!
- AI & Analytics
- Product realisation
- Robotics
- Sensing

Quantum control for enhanced sensing
Current gas detection techniques are incredibly advanced – can we really do anything better?
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital security
- Optics
- Robotics
- Sensing