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The House of Commons’ environmental audit select committee has launched an inquiry into electronics waste and recycling, and is asking for advice. “The UK produces more e-waste than the EU average. We are missing EU targets and are one of the worst offenders for exporting waste to developing countries, who are ill equipped to dispose of it in a socially ...

Inclusion of robotics in school curricula may become important as the field’s influence grows in wider society For the 4th annual UK Robotics Week (20th-27th June 2019), the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network commissioned a poll to determine UK adults’ views on the integration of robotics in industry and daily life. One fifth of survey respondents said ...

UK manufacturing and technology sectors are vying for first and second place as the most cyber-attacked industry sectors, according to the 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) from US firm NTT Security – the report is compiled from trillions of logs and millions of attacks, said NTT, whose data is analysed across 18 industry sectors. “While manufacturing took top billing in ...

It seems that Europeans are relatively positive about robots as long as they have a more or less theoretical concept in mind, but are increasingly critically when the robot is specified and personal interactions appear imminent – robots were evaluated more negatively in 2017 than five years before. This has been extracted from a survey of 80,396 citizens across 27 ...

The OLED industry is estimated to have sales worth $25.5bn this year, says IDTechEx Research. This could rise to $30.72bn in 2019, according to the report “Global OLED Display Forecasts and Technologies 2019-2029”. The report estimates that OLEDs used in mobile devices dominate the OLED industry, comprising of 88% of the market revenue in 2018.  “These are predominately supplied by ...

According to a report published by Allied Market Research, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) will dominate the machine learning (ML) chip market. The Machine Learning Chip Market report forecasts the global ML chip market will be worth $37.8 billion in 2025, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.8% between 2018 and 2025. The report considers chips by type ...

Robots may be beginning to enter the psyche of the UK population.

Self-driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by at least 75% to stay on the roads

Longer life with good transparency will need to be achieved if solar facades are to become common on buildings, according to a report by market research company IDTechEx. ‘Smart glass and windows 2018-2028: Electronic shading and semi-transparent PV‘ identifies gigawatt hour potential from glass building cladding and windows that include photovoltaic layers, but identifies multiple factors holding back deployment. Thinned crystalline ...

Five ethical principles at the heart of artificial intelligence development and use will be the best way for the UK to benefit from AI, concludes a report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. According to the report, ‘AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?’, done ethically, the UK is in a strong position to be a world ...