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We’re mechanical engineers with a passion for design. We’ll assist your design engineers, or become your own design team, getting product ideas and changes to market quickly.
Frugal innovation and COVID-19
Reframing, reprioritising and repurposing has come to the fore during the coronavirus pandemic crisis, say Professor Jaideep Prabhu and Viren Lall.
University endowments exploit long-horizon advantage, says study
University endowments use their long-term perspective to invest countercyclically at times of stock-market crisis, says new study at the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Temporary & Permanent Recruitment Services
We find the perfect candidates for the right roles in a variety of engineering sectors; oil, gas, civil, rail, automotive, aerospace, structural, mechanical, electrical… the list goes on.
Birketts advises Essex digital agency on sale to tech company Epsilon Telecommunications
Top 100 UK law firm Birketts has advised on the successful sale of Essex-based business 7D Digital Limited to Epsilon Telecommunications Limited for an undisclosed fee.
Introducing RoboPatient – a soft robotics approach to training doctors
Cambridge researchers are helping to design healthcare robotics of the future by investigating a robot-assisted approach to training doctors in medical examinations.
Professor Peter Guthrie appointed Vice-President at the Royal Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Professor Peter Guthrie who has been appointed Vice-President at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
PheroSyn gets boost to develop novel pheromones
PheroSyn, the company spun-out from Rothamsted Research to develop and produce novel pheromones, has been awarded part of Innovate UK’s £134 million Sustainable Innovation Fund (SIF) to help development of its new pest insect pheromones. The funds will be used in a project to optimise sustainable green chemistry routes for the production of two high value pear midge pheromones.
Affordable package for traceable humidity calibrations
The ability to perform traceable humidity calibrations of probes in-house is now within the reach of more users – thanks to a package offered by Michell Instruments.
Bicycle Therapeutics presents at the Jefferies Virtual London Healthcare Conference
Bicycle Therapeutics plc, a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, has announced that management will participate in a fireside chat at the Jefferies Virtual London Healthcare Conference this Thursday (19 November 2020) at 1:10 p.m. ET.
o2h ventures launches the first HMRC approved knowledge intensive EIS fund focused on UK biotech therapeutics & AI
o2h ventures has announced the launch of its HMRC approved knowledge intensive EIS fund, focusing on supporting the expansion of UK research and development in biotech therapeutics and AI.
CHR welcomes new HR Director Lydia Seymour
Cambridge Healthcare Research (CHR) is delighted to announce that Lydia Seymour has been appointed its new HR Director.
‘Long-COVID’ in our community – new call for research proposals
Up to £20 million is available for new research projects which aim to understand and address the longer-term physical and mental health effects of COVID-19 in non-hospitalised individuals.
Fluidic Analytics' Research Challenge 2020 is extended
Fluidic Analytics has been so overwhelmed by the quality of the submissions to its research challenge that it has decided to release additional instruments to ensure no great research idea goes unsupported.
£22m more for cycling and walking in the East of England as research shows public support
Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, has today (Friday 13 November) given councils across the East of England a further £22 million to create safe space for cycling and walking – as surveys and independent polls show strong public support for high-quality schemes.
ESRC announces winners of its 2020 Celebrating Impact Prize
Researchers whose work has made a difference to society and the economy were celebrated at the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) annual Celebrating Impact Prize awards.
Skills4Stem, IBM and WEConnect International collaborate to deliver Women in Tech Development Programme
Skills4Stem, a certified women’s business enterprise, IBM, and WEConnect International in Europe have announced their collaboration in launching a Women in Tech Development Programme.
Are you an SME keen to understand how to use data better in your business to innovate, increase productivity and grow?
The European funded Interreg project, Futures By Design, strives to help SMEs in different regions innovate, grow and / or increase productivity. It is looking for 50 SMEs in Cambridgeshire who are interested in benefiting from the project.
Walking - not working!
John Gourd, CEO, Cambridge NetworkHow the Cambridge Network team was forced to take a break from work...
New project will bring Antarctic heritage to life
A new collaboration between Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UK-AHT) will see British Antarctic heritage brought to life via immersive, audio-visual technologies and innovative storytelling.
Marshall signs deal with Danish Air Force for C-130 cockpit armour
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (Marshall ADG) has secured its first contract to certify and install the latest generation of lightweight cockpit armour on the Danish Air Force’s fleet of C-130Js.
Check if you're eligible for the coronavirus Local Restrictions Support Grant (for closed businesses)
The government has ordered certain businesses and venues to close or restrict how they provide goods and services. But unitl Wednesday 2 December 2020, the Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) will be made available to all businesses that have been forced to close.
Cambs business leaders feel more positive about the future now than in April 2020
In a poll conducted at Grant Thornton’s Cambridgeshire Limited Panel & Audience Discussion in partnership with Mills & Reeve, 63% of business leaders admitted to feeling more positive about the future now than they did in April, with only 17% feeling less positive.
Speechmatics launches industry-first Global Spanish language pack for automatic speech-to-text transcription at scale
Speechmatics, a UK leader in any-context speech recognition technology, today launches the first Global Spanish language pack on the market that supports all major Spanish accents. Global Spanish (GS) is a single Spanish language pack trained on data drawn across a wide range of diverse sources – specifically those from Latin America – making it the most accurate and comprehensive accent…
Construction begins at Taank Optometrists, Mill Road, Cambridge
Layrd Design takes a look at its current interior design and construction project at Taank Optometrists on Mill Road, Cambridge..