Science and Engineering
![Autopickr’s CEO Robyn Sands (left) with commercial grower Scott Rumble, Director of Cambridge Asparagus [credit: Agri-TechE / StillVision Photography]](/sites/default/files/Autopickr%20-%20Robyn%20Sands%20and%20Scott%20Rumble%20CamNet.jpg)
Autopickr presents Gus, its adaptable asparagus harvester, at REAP
An affordable, robust asparagus-harvesting robot called Gus that offers potential to extend the harvesting season and shelf-life of the high-value crop was presented by Cambridge-based Autopickr at Agri-TechE’s REAP Conference 2023. The company presented in the REAP Start-Up Showcase, w...
Yourgene Health becomes a PacBio Compatible Partner: enabling PacBio customers to optimise size selection for long-read sequencing libraries
Yourgene’s LightBench® instrument offers precise and accurate size selection of PacBio® SMRTbell® sequencing libraries increasing HiFi sequencing yields ...
High accuracy sample positioner now offers up to 800 µm travel
Queensgate’s NanoScan SP800 nanopositioning sample scanner offers high-accuracy positioning performance for longer ranges. ...
Glox Therapeutics secures £4.3M seed funding to develop precision antimicrobials targeting drug-resistant bacteria
Glox Therapeutics Secures £4.3M Seed Funding to Develop Precision Antimicrobials Targeting Drug-resistant Bacteria ...
Marginal gains – The pursuit of perfect design
Flynn Product Design writes...In the industrial design space, the pursuit of achieving perfect design is never-ending. Often when people are looking to solve a problem or improve their work, they seek a single transformative solution to address all the issues. Making small changes that ...
Expand your horizons: think big with a Cleanroom Solutions turnkey project
Let the Guardtech Group heritage business take away the hassle of building the large-scale facility of your dreams ...
New health technology will protect self-driving car manufacturers
electronRx Limited writes...
Snakes and Ladders - navigating your investment journey
A workshop for tech founders and directors who are new to the investment journey. ...
![Agri-TechE’s 2023 REAP conference started with a Farmer's Breakfast, sponsored by Savills, which gave farmers the opportunity to talk to the keynote speakers: David Exwood, Vice President of the National Farmers Union (left) and Prof. Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientist at Defra (right), pictured with Dr Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE. [credit: Agri-TechE / StillVision Photography]](/sites/default/files/David%20Exwood%2C%20Belinda%20Clarke%20and%20Gideon%20Henderson%20%28CamNet%29.jpg)
Extreme events driving innovation in agri-tech, REAP conference reveals
The NFU Vice-President, David Exwood, and Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Gideon Henderson, were the keynote speakers at Agri-TechE’s REAP Conference 2023, which also saw presentations from early-stage companies that are addressing increasingly urgent real-world problems fro...
Yourgene Health and Laboriad launch non-invasive prenatal testing in Morocco
Yourgene Health installs first NIPT platform, the IONA test, in Morrocco, enabling Laboriad to offer safe, fast and accurate prenatal testing to expectant parents ...