Bigger Brains Need Better Senses
Humanoid’s KinetIQ Ascend is important because it shows robot intelligence improving faster than robot perception. Better AI makes robot touch more valuable, not less.
From Battery Maker to Infrastructure Company: CATL’s Bigger Strategy
CATL is still the world’s largest battery maker. But its moves into standards, swapping, asset management, energy storage, software and recycling suggest a bigger strategy: capturing the infrastructure and operating layer of electric mobility.
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Battery Swapping for Heavy Trucks: Infrastructure Asset or Financial Repackaging?
Battery swapping does not remove the truck battery from the economics. It moves battery ownership, depreciation, residual value and utilisation risk onto infrastructure owners, leasing companies and investors.
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Nanotech and Water: It Took Ten Years Just To Get To The Starting Line
It is just over four years since I drove through an ice storm in Georgia and South Carolina for the meeting that led to the founding of G2O Water. In…
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Graphene may well change the world but will it change Manchester?
Capturing the value of graphene in Manchester – some relevant lessons on scalability for Graphene City from Sheffield and Beijing
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Innovation is not a Magic Sausage Machine
Innovation is like making sausages – the messy bits are hidden but are absolutely critical to the success of the end product.
Did Manchester Miss Out By Not Patenting Graphene?
There has been a lot of debate about whether Manchester should have patented graphene in some form? Did they miss out?
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Getting From Being Green to Voting Green
The Green Party: Economic Growth is Good, Sustainable Growth Is Even Better
Searching for Commercial Graphene at the Commercial Graphene Show
As graphene tries to grow commercial wings a number of investors run the risk of waking up on the living room floor with a thick head and the lingering…
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Saving Our Village Shop With Technology?
Our village shop in Cononley on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales is under threat – how can we use technology to save it?