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11th March 2021 9:24 am A vehicle engineering project involving UK consultancy Ricardo and WorldAutoSteel is exploring the role that advanced steels will play in next generation autonomous and connected vehicles. Jon Excell reports From the development of algorithms that help driverless cars behave in a more human like manner to advances in the sensing systems that will enable tomorrow’s vehicles to understand and respond to their environment, progress towards the fully autonomous vehicle – where the technology has removed the need for any driver controls – is well under way. But whil...

25th February 2021 11:55 am As cars become ever more complex, so do the systems and technologies required to test them. Jon Excell spoke to one of the engineers at the sharp end of this change, Millbrook testing chief John Proctor. From the rise of electrification to the advent of autonomy, the automotive sector is going through a noted period of rapid evolution. And as technical director for UK test services at Millbrook, John Proctor is at the sharp end of that change – charged with delivering the test capabilities that are key to getting an ever-more complex array of automotive technol...

5th February 2021 12:34 pm ERM’s pioneering Dolphyn project – the first of its kind in the world – aims to produce ‘green’ hydrogen from floating wind turbines situated miles out to sea. Jon Excell reports. C2I 2020 Winner: ERM Dolphyn Abundant, versatile, energy dense and clean at point of use, hydrogen is viewed as an increasingly important component of our future energy mix and key to the decarbonisation of our heating and transport systems. The problem is that the bulk of the hydrogen currently used is derived from fossil fuels using processes that the International Energy Aut...

12th January 2021 3:44 pm A diminutive four-legged robot looks set to become the UK’s first visitor to the moon.  Jon Excell reports From the 2016 Rosetta comet landing, to the development of the Mars rover for ESA’s forthcoming mission to the red planet, British space scientists and engineers are at the heart of some of the world’s most ambitious and challenging space-exploration efforts. Which makes it all the more surprising that our nearest cosmic neighbour – the moon – has never been visited by a UK developed probe or robot. Until now that is. An artist’s impression of the...