Scottish and Southern Energy has agreed to invest £1m in Onzo, a data systems development business whose intellectual property includes display devices that support smart metering systems.

Octopus Investments has pumped £1.7m into Michelson Diagnostics, whose VivoSight laser scanning technology is claimed to image skin and other surface tissue at high resolution.

A new study in the field of haptic technology promises to bring the sense of touch to virtual worlds and make the internet more accessible to the visually impaired.

A new ‘tracking’ system is being developed to capture the feelings of volunteers who regularly walk, run or cycle along Worcester’s riverfront.

A collaborative effort between European academics and industry partners has led to the development of an automated and robust traffic surveillance system that could make road travel across Europe...

Researchers have revealed the underlying nanomechanics that give nacre its hardness and resilience, an advance that could lead to ultra-strong synthetic materials.

Raytheon has been awarded $38m to continue efforts in the design, development, installation and maintenance of command and control, communications and computing (C4) facilities in Iraq.

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