Daniel Fung, Head of Strategy and Planning at the UK's Advanced Propulsion Centre reports on the findings of a recent gathering of experts exploring the future of the UK's automotive sector

A research team at Festo has developed SmartBird, a biomechatronic bird that can take off, fly and land autonomously.

If you bring your full self to a role, are confident and assertive, there shouldn’t be any reason why women can’t succeed in engineering, says Amy Blake, Assistant Project Manager at Thales in the UK.

With competition from overseas markets manufacturers must become more inventive, offering customers whole-system rather than just single products. Julia Pierce reports

Carbon emissions can be reduced in a way that means we can use our heating, hot water & cooking exactly as we are used to, says Chris Train, Energy Networks Association’s Gas Goes Green Champion