Cornish Lithium readies ‘green industrial revolution’ mining trials

Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s innovation business, has created a low-cost, real-time sensor to manage and understand how parking spaces are used in an effort to kickstart better placemaking.

Royal Mail has announced the first out-of-sight autonomous drone flights between the UK mainland and an island, testing deliveries to the Isles of Scilly.

The first driverless vehicles are due to hit our streets later in this decade, writes Robbie Turner. As well as having an effect on how we live, work and travel, the rollout could have a profound effect on how our towns, cities and built environment are developed.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has authorised the first trial of routine drone flights outside a pilot’s line of sight, which could have significant implications for logistics, construction and retail.

Leighton Buzzard train station is trialling kinetic floor tiles that convert footsteps into electricity in a pilot by startup Pavegen and Central Bedfordshire Council.

The digital parking assistant has appointed Angelique de Rauville as managing director of its business in the UK as it plans to ‘increase our business exponentially in the short-term’.

Hyperloop took a leap forward in 2020 as Virgin Hyperloop carried out its first passenger test. But when can we expect it to become a practical, functioning reality?

The growing popularity of EVs needs to be met with an increase in the number of charging points on our roads. PlaceTech picks some of those leading the way, and it’s not just cars they are interested in.

As struggling retail property owners explore the opportunity to convert retail space for other uses, researchers at Prologis have measured the potential implications for the logistics industry.