Robotics engineers in the European Union (EU) plan to develop an agricultural robot that can sense, spray and pick high-value crops.

Fugro GEOS is leading a three-year project for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to develop a carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring system using marine robotics.

Sunswap, a UK clean-tech startup decarbonising cold chain logistics, has secured £17.3m to accelerate the rollout of its zero-emission transport refrigeration technology.

The UK Space Agency is spearheading efforts to better track potential hazards in the Earth’s orbit as part of a wider initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is embarking on a project to eliminate software updates by establishing a computer program that avoids obsolescence. 

A navigation aid that allows visually impaired competitive swimmers to train safely has been developed by a product design student at Loughborough University. 

UK manufacturer Equipmake has partnered with Brazil’s Agrale on a new electric bus that is set to be rolled out across South America.

Honeywell is to build a new UK production line that will make 70 million COVID-19 face masks over the next 18 months.

Engineers at MIT have designed a colorimetric sensor food sensor made from an array of silk microneedles that pierces plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and contamination. 

The world’s largest solar thermal power station is to be built in the town of Port Augusta, South Australia, 300km north of Adelaide.