Whatever Happened to Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology did not fail. Tim Harper’s archive shows how the boom became tools, materials, standards, manufacturing processes and supply chains, and what that teaches today’s deep-tech companies.
Element 2 Enters Administration: A Founder’s Statement
Element 2 founder Tim Harper responds to the company’s administration, questions the decisions preceding insolvency and considers the implications for shareholders, creditors and hydrogen infrastructure.
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Humanoid Robotics in 2026: The Technology Is Advancing. Are the Economics Keeping Up?
Humanoid robotics is advancing on three different clocks: technical capability, manufacturing readiness and the economics of useful work. A financing reconstruction and operating-cost model show what determines commercial viability.
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Element 2: A Founder’s Statement on the Company’s Financial Crisis
Element 2 founder Tim Harper responds to HMRC’s winding-up petition, administration proceedings and the company’s financial crisis, and discusses a potential rescue.
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UK Budget 2026: What It Really Means for Hydrogen
The UK Budget 2026 hydrogen measures cut planned capital grants and change the funding route for production support. It does so while Britain’s hydrogen programme is already behind its contracting timetable. The commercial consequences reach producers, infrastructure investors, equipment makers and customers across the economy.
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Why hydrogen deployment is slower in the UK
UK hydrogen deployment needs production, customers and infrastructure to commit together. European policy and industrial projects show what Britain can learn.
£2 diesel: who pays the extra £20,000 per truck?
UK diesel prices around £2 a litre can add roughly £20,000 to an HGV’s annual fuel costs if the increase persists. With haulage margins around 2%, who absorbs the difference?
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Tactile Sensing for Robotics: Technology, Economics and Market Guide
Tactile sensing for robotics measures physical contact so that a robot can adjust its actions. Robotic tactile sensors can measure
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AI Is Running Into the Physical Economy
The AI investment boom is colliding with constraints in compute, electricity and the grid. The next phase could reward not just those who supply more resources, but technologies that need fewer of them.
Robotics Is Attracting Billions. Look Where the Money Is Going.
Nearly $4.9 billion of disclosed capital went into robotics companies in August. The headline number is impressive, but the distribution of that money tells a more interesting story about where investors think robotics is heading.
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An AI Winter Could Be Good for AI
The AI boom has been built on abundant capital and ever more computation. A financial correction could make efficiency matter again.