Driverless cars will remain a niche proposition until the expensive sensor tech that enables them, Lidar, can be produced quickly and cheaply. Leslie Hook, the FT's San Francisco correspondent, reports. Visit: https://industrialtech.ft.com to learn more
Imagine slipping on a smartphone-connected headset to explore holiday options and taking a seamless virtual-reality tour of a beach resort in Phuket – all courtesy of an online travel agent, who has paid for the cost of transmitting the data.
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A raft of new technologies is set to fundamentally change the way we live, work and relate to one another. Individually, each piece of tech is a game changer. Collectively, they’re revolutionary. Explore the infographic.
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Lithium is becoming increasingly crucial to battery supply chains in the growing electric vehicle market and battery producers are scrambling to secure access to raw materials.
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Driverless cars and the hyperloop have dominated headlines, but the next big things could be flying cars and automated subterranean tunnels.
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Sweeping advances in manufacturing, transport and broadband capacity are creating waves of change across the globe. Soon these industries will meet, in a confluence of technologies that is set to trigger a tipping point.
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Astronauts on a space station have started to 3D-print tools, creating a new frontier and new techniques for industry.
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The ability to control the physical world with your mind using a brain-computer interface or a mind machine has traditionally been focused on health care, and more recently the gaming industry.
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Many patients forget to take their medicine, but as FT science commentator Anjana Ahuja explains, now there’s a pill that ‘knows’ when it’s been swallowed. It can send a time-stamped signal to the patient, and with consent, their doctor.
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Graphene is a two-dimensional form of carbon one molecule thick that was discovered in 2004. It’s incredibly thin, light and strong and has numerous potential applications.
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There are 2m industrial robots globally and that number is growing rapidly. The next step in their evolution is getting them to work together, rather than repeating a single task over and over.
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The Internet of Things is growing rapidly - by 2020 it is estimated there will be 50bn smart devices.
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Digital Government means using the technology we associate with the fourth industrial revolution for the benefit of citizens.
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Technological advances and innovations in data management could save the oil and gas industry $75bn a year by 2023.
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As Artificial Intelligence accelerates more deeply into the business mainstream, David Lancefield, Partner, Strategy& outlines the benefits AI can bring to an organisation
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Start-ups and industrial giants are racing to create new farm machines that will boost production and profits.
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It may seem hard to believe but for every person who benefits from taking one of the top 10 selling medical drugs in the US, far more people - between one in four and one in 25, depending on the drug - see no benefit whatsoever.
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Precision medicine has the potential to transform the entire healthcare industry with personalised and bespoke treatments, but at what cost?
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Space junk is a massive challenge for a fast-growing satellite industry worth billions of dollars. There are hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk whizzing around in earth’s orbit and even a fleck of paint can do serious damage.
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Scarcely a week goes by without another major announcement in the world of autonomous vehicles (AVs).
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to transform mobility completely, but with major roadblocks such as regulation and policy to overcome, how soon until they become ubiquitous on UK roads?
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