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This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs

How much do artificial intelligence and robots pose a risk to jobs in the UK?

Poll Skills and careers

Artificial assistant: the rise of the retail robot

From swarming devices that get your online food order ready for delivery to the autonomous vehicles that will bring it to your front door, robots are poised to revolutionise the retail sector.

In-depth Robotics

Jaguar Land Rover sign supply deal for autonomous vehicles with Waymo

JLR and ride-hailing company Waymo announce long-term partnership

News Automotive

Collaborative robots: Meet the co-bot colleague

Capable of working both alongside people and in complete isolation, collaborative robots are transforming production processes

In-depth Robotics

This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs
Artificial assistant: the rise of the retail robot
Jaguar Land Rover sign supply deal for autonomous vehicles with Waymo
Collaborative robots: Meet the co-bot colleague

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Last week’s poll: Government seeks assurances on GKN acquisition

3rd April 2018 11:52 am 3rd April 2018 12:31 pm

Injectable bandage promises to reduce battlefield mortality

3rd April 2018 10:23 am 3rd April 2018 10:23 am

News Manufacturing

Go and make some drugs

3rd April 2018 10:08 am 3rd April 2018 10:08 am

News Manufacturing

Ignorance 4.0? UK manufacturing and engineering competitiveness at risk from lack of knowledge

29th March 2018 5:28 pm 29th March 2018 5:28 pm

News Energy & environment

Arctic discovery may point the way to South Pole’s “lost meteorites”

29th March 2018 11:09 am 29th March 2018 11:41 am

Video of the week: Festo engineers unveil robotic flying fox

29th March 2018 10:52 am 29th March 2018 10:54 am

News Medical & healthcare

Robotic hand drill shows promise for cochlear implant procedures

29th March 2018 8:30 am 3rd April 2018 7:29 am

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Aerospace

Heathrow airport completes UK’s first autonomous airside vehicle trial

28th March 2018 10:53 am 28th March 2018 10:59 am

“Real-life Iron Man” pilots jet suit up Europe’s longest zip wire

22nd March 2018 9:49 am 22nd March 2018 9:49 am

UCL to lead European ARIEL mission to study exoplanets

21st March 2018 10:45 am 21st March 2018 10:45 am

Automotive

News Automotive

Jaguar Land Rover sign supply deal for autonomous vehicles with Waymo

28th March 2018 10:14 am 28th March 2018 10:15 am

News Automotive

Last week’s poll: responses to Uber crash

27th March 2018 10:00 am 27th March 2018 11:39 am

News Automotive

Autonomous and connected vehicle technology trialled on the streets of Milton Keynes

23rd March 2018 1:45 pm 23rd March 2018 3:28 pm

Civil & structural

News Civil & structural

Europe’s first 3D printed house heralds “paradigm shift” in construction says Arup

21st March 2018 10:16 am 21st March 2018 10:16 am

News Civil & structural

Blue Pilot project promises to push down cost of offshore wind farm installation

16th March 2018 7:43 am 20th March 2018 7:27 am

News Civil & structural

US firm builds 3D printed house in less than a day

15th March 2018 11:14 am 15th March 2018 12:45 pm

Defence & security

News Defence & security

Acusonic sensors to pinpoint incoming threats to Ajax combat vehicles

22nd March 2018 3:40 pm 22nd March 2018 3:40 pm

Interviews Defence & security

Interview: Anthony Finkelstein, the government’s chief scientific adviser for national security

15th March 2018 9:00 am 16th March 2018 10:02 am

News Defence & security

Lockheed’s HELIOS laser weapon system brings triple threat

2nd March 2018 10:31 am 2nd March 2018 10:31 am

Electronics & communications

News Electronics & communications

Graphite coating heralds microelectromechanical relays for harsh environments

23rd March 2018 7:10 am 23rd March 2018 7:13 am

News Electronics & communications

Promoted content: SICK next-generation photoelectric sensors pilot the future of sensing

5th March 2018 10:33 am 5th March 2018 10:33 am

News Electronics & communications

Aqueous energy storage device promises rapid charging of portable electronics

28th February 2018 10:38 am 28th February 2018 10:38 am

Energy & environment

News Energy & environment

Arctic discovery may point the way to South Pole’s “lost meteorites”

29th March 2018 11:09 am 29th March 2018 11:41 am

News Energy & environment

World’s first formic acid based fuel cell shows new way to deliver renewable energy

21st March 2018 8:26 am 21st March 2018 8:26 am

News Energy & environment

UK consortium to develop comms and control system for V2G charging points

20th March 2018 2:03 pm 20th March 2018 2:03 pm

Medical & healthcare

News Medical & healthcare

Robotic hand drill shows promise for cochlear implant procedures

29th March 2018 8:30 am 3rd April 2018 7:29 am

News Medical & healthcare

Low-cost 3D bioprinter has potential for biomedical breakthroughs

28th March 2018 11:42 am 28th March 2018 11:43 am

News Medical & healthcare

3D printed wearable device monitors stomach activity over 24 hours

23rd March 2018 10:08 am 23rd March 2018 10:16 am

Manufacturing

News Manufacturing

Go and make some drugs

3rd April 2018 10:08 am 3rd April 2018 10:08 am

News Manufacturing

Ignorance 4.0? UK manufacturing and engineering competitiveness at risk from lack of knowledge

29th March 2018 5:28 pm 29th March 2018 5:28 pm

News Manufacturing

Take part in our third buyer survey and you could win a £100 Amazon voucher

26th March 2018 5:55 pm 26th March 2018 5:55 pm

Policy & business

News Policy & business

Last week’s poll: Government seeks assurances on GKN acquisition

3rd April 2018 11:52 am 3rd April 2018 12:31 pm

Advanced Manufacturing Policy & business

Manufacturers deliver over 1000 new jobs with Economic Growth Solutions

27th March 2018 2:55 pm 27th March 2018 3:32 pm

News Policy & business

Aluminium Federation warns of adverse impact of Trump’s trade tariffs

19th March 2018 3:37 pm 19th March 2018 3:38 pm

Process

Catalytic metal foams harness sunlight to clean water

15th February 2018 10:39 am 15th February 2018 10:39 am

Catalytic process improves speed and efficiency of medicines manufacture

15th February 2018 8:04 am 15th February 2018 8:04 am

Electrochemical system rids wastewater of pollutants

6th December 2017 12:37 pm 6th December 2017 12:37 pm

Rail & marine

News Rail & marine

New algorithms help autonomous vessels avoid collisions at sea

26th March 2018 12:22 pm 26th March 2018 12:22 pm

In-depth Rail & marine

How “Boaty McBoatface” is making Carbon Capture and Storage safe

9th March 2018 12:01 pm 9th March 2018 12:01 pm

News Rail & marine

UK rail industry and universities launch network to shape future railways

21st February 2018 11:07 am 21st February 2018 11:07 am

Skills and careers

Poll Skills and careers

This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs

3rd April 2018 10:47 am 3rd April 2018 10:47 am

Advanced Manufacturing Skills and careers

In-Comm Technical Academy set to bridge regional skills gap

27th March 2018 4:15 pm 27th March 2018 4:15 pm

In-depth Skills and careers

Recruitment in oil and gas: New confidence on the shelf

20th March 2018 4:48 pm 20th March 2018 4:48 pm

In-depth

In-depth Robotics

Collaborative robots: Meet the co-bot colleague

26th March 2018 12:55 pm 28th March 2018 11:48 am

In-depth Skills and careers

Recruitment in oil and gas: New confidence on the shelf

20th March 2018 4:48 pm 20th March 2018 4:48 pm

In-depth Robotics

Artificial assistant: the rise of the retail robot

19th March 2018 12:47 pm 19th March 2018 12:49 pm

In-depth Manufacturing

Fusing old with new: Autodesk is modernising traditional processes

15th March 2018 4:06 pm 15th March 2018 4:06 pm

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Poll Skills and careers

This week’s poll: AI, robots and jobs

3rd April 2018 10:47 am 3rd April 2018 10:47 am

Opinion Manufacturing

From part to system: the next generation of Additive Manufacturing

20th March 2018 2:43 pm 20th March 2018 2:43 pm

Viewpoint Manufacturing

Why manufacturers must rise to the cyber-security challenge

16th March 2018 12:21 pm 16th March 2018 12:21 pm

We need to recognise the value of plastic

16th March 2018 9:00 am 13th March 2018 3:38 pm

Opinion Skills and careers

If we allow our children to be unimaginative and dull they will rarely be anything else

15th March 2018 5:44 pm 16th March 2018 12:54 pm

Opinion Medical & healthcare

View from the Academy: Innovation from the Africa prize finalist

13th March 2018 10:44 am 13th March 2018 10:44 am

Blog Policy & business

The language of hacking

8th March 2018 2:55 pm 8th March 2018 2:55 pm

Viewpoint Skills and careers

Women are the “third wave” to bridge diversity gap

8th March 2018 12:10 pm 8th March 2018 12:10 pm

Opinion Skills and careers

Putting the brakes on aspirational decline

7th March 2018 3:07 pm 7th March 2018 3:09 pm

Comment Skills and careers

Ditch the jargon to build rapport with tomorrow’s engineers

5th March 2018 11:30 am 5th March 2018 11:30 am

Opinion Skills and careers

Calling migrant engineers: the UK needs you

28th February 2018 11:23 am 28th February 2018 11:24 am

Viewpoint Policy & business

UK-Irish collaboration: helping propel the Northern Powerhouse forward

26th February 2018 12:48 pm 26th February 2018 12:48 pm

Classic Archive

March 1957: ‘A new Big Wheel era for fairgrounds’

January 1903: Harry Parsons’ snow chains

February 1957: The supersonic jet Fairey Delta 2

January 1946: The origins of Heathrow Airport

Archive interview — Sir Clive Sinclair, 2003

December 1908: Marconi on wireless telegraphy

January 1880: Edison’s electric light

From Sputnik to Apollo 11 – nine giant leaps in the space race

January 1958: Explorer 1 – America’s first satellite

April 1961: Yuri Gagarin makes first manned space flight

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