2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: great athletes - how would robots get on?
These hexapod robots developed in Lingang are on the ice and snow stage for the first time!https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hSL6DHAkswo6nbQwXuNDlgLast week, on the field of curling at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a curling robot "player" coming from the Lingang New Area wore a red suit, supporting his body with a pair of middle "legs" and a pair of rear "legs". Stepping on the pedal, using a pair…
Lingang: leading world centre for electric cars
The Lingang Smart Factory of CATL, officially started construction on February 19th. Relying on the latest manufacturing technology and construction experience, this project in the Lingang New Area will promote the research and development of cutting-edge technologies and accelerate the industrialisation of new energy vehicles. After the completion of the project, CATL will build and deploy…
Cybersecurity - be ready
The Futures By Design team has added a new tool to www.futuresbydesign.netCreated by COM³ Training Solutions: Cybersecurity Readiness through Honeypots was published 04 November 2021 - Published by P. Khodabakhsh
SME guide for Industrial Internet of Thing s (IIoT )
Special focus on security - by The European DIGITAL SME Alliance
Global high-tech leaders choose to increase their holdings in China
Global high-tech leaders choose to increase their holdings in China: Carl Zeiss AG. signed two contracts: to invest 30 million US dollars for setting up Carl Zeiss (China) Investment Co., Ltd. and another 30 million US dollars investment for setting up Carl Zeiss Medical Technology (Shanghai) Investment Co., Ltd.
Four tools to help SME’s
Futures By Design (FBD) aims to enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in regions of lower economic success to innovate, grow and increase productivity. SMEs are critical to regional economies and contribute considerably to regional employment. However, their capacity for success can be limited by insufficient access to data and the inability to analyse data to drive innovation and…
Finding productive ways to collaborate for future green builders
EFEC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Cambridge Cleantech, to find productive ways to collaborate. Part of this is to promote the news from Cambridge Cleantech via the BITE NETWORK and other social media.
Shanghai Port container throughput ranking No. 1 in the world for 12 consecutive years
The sun shone on the Shanghai International Shipping Centre of the Yangshan Deepwater Port On 1st February 2022. Automatic guided transport vehicles shuttled back and forth, and containers went up and down. From the top of the tower of the Phase IV Phase IV Command Centre, four giant container ships were berthing, and rows of red bridge cranes and rail cranes were running smoothly. The truck…
Robot density increasing fast in Shanghai factories
At the beginning of the new year, many workers who have returned to their hometowns for Chinese New Year have not returned to work. For SAIC Passenger Car's Lingang Plant, which is full of production orders, there is no panic in dealing with this situation. Here, the robots are "in charge of the house".
News from Project Racer - Rural Areas Circular Economy Reinforcer
As an economic powerhouse, the North Sea Region has some of the highest levels of resource consumption and carbon emissions in the world.With stiff targets to reduce emissions, a focus on green business is a win-win strategy. By fostering innovative eco-enterprise, we aim to stimulate economic growth plus environmental benefits: less pollution, lower emissions and longer-lasting resources.
How to reduce your digital carbon footprint and boost business growth
Did you know that if the internet was a country, it would be the seventh-largest polluter in the world? What is a digital carbon footprint ?
World Laureates Forum (WLF) completes conference venue structural capping
After 10 months of construction, the permanent Conference Venue of the World Laureates Forum(WLF) in Lingang New Area has completed its structural capping and entered the final decoration stage in an all-round way. The project is expected to be completed and delivered at the end of September, and it will be put into use in October. The WLF's permanent Conference Venue has a total construction…
Futures By Design Insight: Quantum computing
Quantum computing is here: it is already having a massive impact on the speed at which things can be calculated. Take a simple idea like investing in a company, selling goods, finding customers. With no computers this is, today, hard to imagine doing. With ordinary computers and search engines we can get a lot further. But what if we could gather almost all available data and then ask the…
Bibo Pharma builds the world's first 30,000-litre production line in the Lingang new area
BiBo Pharma is new to China’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) industry, but it has ambitions to be a game-changer. The project, named P03 and located in Shanghai, has a total planned minimum capacity of 200,000 liters. It will include “the world's first stainless steel single mammalian cell production line with a capacity of 30,000 litres in total volume,” the company…
SenseTime's launches new-generation Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) in Lingang
At the beginning of 2022, the construction of Shanghai's artificial intelligence highland has accelerated.In the Lingang New Area, the SenseTime Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC), which covers an area of about 130,000 square metres and has 5,000 cabinets in its first phase of construction, was officially opened on January 24.
BITE Insights: Tesla CATL in LIngang factory catalyses innovative supply chain system
BITE Insights: Tesla CATL factory catalyses innovative supply chain system and advanced manufacturing companies experience “Lingang speed”
2022 is the decisive year in Lingang New Area
When answering a question about the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Gong Zheng said that the establishment of the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone is one of the three major new tasks entrusted to Shanghai.
What the EU is trying to change in the years ahead
The North Sea Region Programme of the European Union announced its first call for Projects under the new 2021-2027 programme on 16 December, 2021. EFEC is working with University of Groningen to develop a project proposal to speed up technology transfer in the circular economies of rural areas.
Data-driven performance in action
Futures By Design (FBD) is a three-year project funded by the EU North Sea Region Programme (NSRP). EFEC Director of Strategy Andrew Thomson is the originator, designer and team-builder who brought the 12 partners together from five countries to create the FBD team and co-ordinate the project’s operation.