Hugh Gill, Touch Bionics’ director of technology and operations, aims to take the award-winning i-Limb prosthetic hand to the next stage. Stuart Nathan reports.

Heriot-Watt University and Manchester-based Globus Group - Britain's largest manufacturer of plastic PPE - have announced a collaboration to prevent plastic PPE waste from ending up in landfill. 

Three manufacturing research initiatives led by the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) have received a £14m funding boost through the Glasgow City Region Innovation Accelerator...

A ‘future concept’ EU project will assess whether personal flying vehicles could ever be used on city-wide ‘skyways’.

Ford Motor Company has confirmed that it is on schedule to deliver five electrified vehicles for launch in the US by 2012 and European markets by 2013.

A London-based start-up pioneering an AI led approach to autonomous vehicles has announced $200m Series B funding backed by global financial and strategic investors.

Efforts are underway to replicate the way in which Octopus suckers work, an advance that could lead to applications in industrial, medical and disaster monitoring scenarios.

US researchers have designed an adhesive with microfibres made from stiff polymers that can clean itself after each use.