| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.05.2024 | Houston hospital flies in drone delivery service for medical supplies, prescriptions | A Houston hospital system has announced that it has plans to launch a drone delivery service for specialty prescriptions and medical supplies in 2026.
Memorial Hermann Health System announced that it intends to be the first health care prov... |
| 26.04.2024 | UH inks international partnership for energy transition innovation | The University of Houston and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month that celebrates an official partnership between the schools in education, research, and innovation for the energy trans... |
| 25.04.2024 | Are You Working on the World's Next Big Wellness Business Innovation? Submissions for the 2024 "Shark Tank of Wellness" Student Competition Now Open | Global Wellness Summit’s ninth annual “Shark Tank of Wellness” student competition is now open
Global Wellness Summit's ninth annual "Shark Tank of Wellness" student competition is now open; top three finalists will compete for $1... |
| 18.03.2024 | Future vaccine makers to get VR-assisted training centre of excellence | Future vaccine makers to get VR-assisted training centre of excellence
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Future medicine and vaccine makers will be able to develop their skills using virtual reality thanks to a new national Ce... |
| 14.03.2024 | Heriot-Watt Researcher Lands £2.5M for Laser Technology | The funding was given by the Royal Academy of Engineering chair in emerging technologies, and marks a milestone in the pursuit of innovations that have the potential to reshape industries like manufacturing and healthcare.
Professor Travers... |
| 12.02.2024 | Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study | Fishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere..
Scientists have long known that bottom trawling – the practice of dragging massive nets along the seabed to catch fis... |
| 03.11.2023 | Meet the founder: How Deep Science Ventures’ Dr. Thane Campbell built a PhD program for the deeptech era | All too often, well-trained PhDs wind up in a field that has nothing to do with their chosen discipline, says Dr. Thane Campbell, Dean of Deep Science Ventures‘ Venture Science Doctorate program. “People get disillusioned and then they’re n... |
| 30.10.2023 | Desktop Metal sells Aerosint subsidiary to Schaeffler Group | High-precision components and systems manufacturer Schaeffler Group has acquired Belgian recoater system developer Aerosint SA from Massachusetts-based metal 3D printer manufacturer Desktop Metal.
Founded in 2016, Aerosint’s patented Select... |
| 09.08.2023 | Energy Transition Engineering MSC Launched at Heriot-Watt Uni | The programme is taught in person at the University’s Orkney campus through the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) and focuses on technologies, systems, processes, and economics, alongside the design of transiti... |
| 28.06.2023 | Heriot-Watt Developing AI-powered, Robotic Fishing Net | An underwater robotic sorting device which helps fishing trawlers prevent bycatch by identifying and sizing fish and other marine life in real-time is being developed by researchers from Heriot-Watt University.
Smartrawl uses AI-technology ... |
| 05.04.2023 | Researchers achieve breakthrough in metal 3D printing, enabling greater control over part characteristics | A team of researchers from multiple institutions, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, have announced a breakthrough in the understanding of how cooling rates a... |
| 10.01.2023 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | December 2022 | Funding and Investment Microplate Dx Limited
University of Strathclyde spinout medtech, Microplate Dx Limited, secured seed funding to scale-up development of its diagnostic test.
The Microplate Dx team has completed an initial seed funding... |
| 05.12.2022 | Movers and Shakers | November 2022 | Welcome to the November 2022 edition of the DIGIT Movers and Shakers column.
This month features another bumper crop of Scottish awards, relocation, partnership, and recruitment news.
Here’s all the latest news in one place.
Recruitment xDe... |
| 01.12.2022 | Formnext 2022: keeping the tradition of sustainability and innovation alive with Dressler Group | Thermoplastic powder manufacturer Dressler Group (DG) demonstrated its ability to improve efficiency and quality for its customers, as well as serve as their personal driver of innovation, at Formnext 2022.
The company says it is committed ... |
| 07.11.2022 | Movers and Shakers | October 2022 | Recruitment CodeClan
CodeClan made two major announcements in October: firstly that current CEO Melinda Matthews-Clarkson was to step down from her role, and that Loral Quinn would be taking up the post.
Matthews-Clarkson plans to take a sa... |
| 24.10.2022 | How inclusive is STEM and how do we diversify the relevant fields? | A lack of workforce diversity in terms of education currently plagues STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) industries. The world cannot continue to thrive without the work produced under STEM and the geniuses behind it. So why... |
| 07.09.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | August 2022 | Recruitment AND Digital
Tech consultancy AND Digital welcomed five new starts as part of its graduate software development and business apprenticeships programme at Club Almeida in Glasgow.
Working alongside the University of Strathclyde an... |
| 31.08.2022 | Heriot-Watt Research Project Bags $2m to Battle Climate Impact | Heriot-Watt University has gained $2 million to find materials to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air to drastically reduce the energy intensity and cost of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) process and combat the climate impact.
The Scotti... |
| 08.08.2022 | Digital health news, funding roundup in the prior week; August 8, 2022 | Monkeypox declares a public health emergency; Cera Care raises €310M; Optum partners with Sanofi
Top Health News
Medline, a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthca... |
| 04.08.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | July 2022 | Recruitment Mark Logan
Scotland has officially appointed its first ‘Chief Entrepreneur’, with former Skyscanner executive Mark Logan selected for the role.
The new position has been created specifically to ensure entrepreneurship is “embedd... |
| 29.07.2022 | Construction 3D printing study criticized: author responds with ‘challenges and opportunities’ | Recent articles on 3D printing in construction have sparked a lively debate. Igniting that conversation was a paper on the potential benefits of concrete 3D printing. The co-author of that paper is Mustafa Batikha, an Assistant Professor at... |
| 22.06.2022 | Engineers use topology optimization to conquer the “constraints” of concrete 3D printing technology | Engineers at RMIT University and the Hebei University of Technology have come up with a novel approach to optimizing the topology of concrete 3D printed builds.
A new take on Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization or ‘BESO,’ th... |
| 01.06.2022 | Scientists shed new light on defect formation in metal 3D printing | A team of international researchers is taking a deeper dive into the fundamental physics behind metal 3D printing, all in the hopes of better understanding defects in printed parts.
Since its invention, laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has pr... |
| 27.05.2022 | How Will Heriot-Watt’s Manufacturing Centre Support Scottish SMEs? | There’s no shortage of great ideas running through the SME community in Scotland. The problem is that innovation must be backed with resources.
The inauguration of the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre (MDMC), based at Heriot-Watt Univers... |
| 16.05.2022 | Comment | Developing Data Talent in Key Industries | The Scottish Government’s agenda to drive the growth of technology companies as promoted by Mark Logan in his Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review is laudable.
By accelerating the rate of tech start-ups, supporting companies to scale, and c... |
| 25.02.2022 | Unique Camera Tech set to Fundamentally Change High-speed Imaging | High-speed imaging tech from Heriot-Watt University has received funding from the Scottish Enterprise High Growth Spinout Programme to begin commercialisation.
The project is set to fundamentally alter how biomedical science, engineering, a... |
| 16.02.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | January 2022 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, The Data Lab, has a new Interim CEO at the helm.
Brian Hills will be responsible for leading the 50+ strong team, driving the growth of AI and data scie... |
| 27.12.2021 | DIGIT’s Biggest Scottish Deals of 2021 | Despite a difficult two years due to the pandemic and the impact of Brexit, Scottish companies have continued to see strong growth and gain access to extra funding.
Sectors such as banking, e-commerce, space and life sciences all saw substa... |
| 13.12.2021 | Train Cleaning Robot to Help Rail Workers Clear up Carriages | Scientists from the National Robotarium, supported by Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities, have revealed the design of a new train cleaning robot to aid with carriage cleaning.
Over the last two years, the Robotarium has been working on ... |
| 09.12.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | November 2021 | Funding and Investment Cyan Forensics
A consortium led by Cyan Forensics has been awarded £85,000 by the UK Government to demonstrate innovative technologies to tackle one of society’s most pressing issues – keeping children safe online in ... |
| 08.12.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | November 2021 | Recruitment and Appointments The Data Lab
The Data Lab announced last month that Gillian Docherty OBE will step down as CEO, a position she has held for the last six years.
Gillian will remain in position at The Data Lab until late-January ... |
| 16.11.2021 | Scottish Semiconductor Scaleups Get Boost From New Team Up | A California semiconductor incubator is teaming-up with Heriot-Watt University (HWU) to boost the development and launch of firms utilising next-gen semiconductor tech.
Silicon Catalyst and HWU have shared ‘strategic objectives’ which focus... |
| 10.11.2021 | Wearable tech transforms data collection and analysis for athletes | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Several health-consci... |
| 10.11.2021 | Research and Innovation Shape Industry and Create Green Jobs of Tomorrow | As the world strives to recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, academics are playing a huge role in exploring how research and innovation is catalysing industries and framing the jobs of tomorrow – through artificial intellige... |
| 10.11.2021 | Wearable tech transforms data collection and analysis for athletes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Several health-conscious people utilize health trackers to stay on top of their goals and overall well-being. With that in mind, it is ... |
| 15.10.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | September 2021 | Recruitment The National Robotarium and Innovate UK
The National Robotarium has marked a major milestone with the appointment of its first chief executive officer.
Stewart Miller, former chief technology officer at Innovate UK, has been con... |
| 22.09.2021 | Cancer Research UK Forms New Partnership with Edinburgh Uni | Cancer Research UK (CRUK) will fund up to 10 participants in the university’s Data-Driven Entrepreneurship (DDE) Venture Builder Incubator.
This currently supports postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic staff in develo... |
| 20.09.2021 | Heriot Watt’s New Telepresence Tech Shown for the First Time | The National Robotarium is pioneering intelligent sensing and tele-presence robotic tech to allow health practitioners to remotely assess a person’s physical and cognitive health from anywhere in the world.
Hosted by Heriot-Watt University,... |
| 10.08.2021 | Bad Weather Data Sets Could Aid Autonomous Vehicles on the Road | A new Heriot-Watt University project could use data to help autonomous vehicles better operate on the road in adverse weather conditions.
Sensors that work in rain, snow and fog on Scottish roads are providing data that could help autonomou... |
| 05.08.2021 | The DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | July 2021 Edition | Investment and Funding Scottish National Investment Bank and Forev
The Scottish National Investment Bank has announced it will invest £2m in electric vehicle charging firm Forev.
According to the bank, the investment boost will support the ... |
| 17.06.2021 | Edinburgh’s ORCA Hub receives £2.5 million in further funding, aims to make offshore energy safer | Edinburgh-based offshore robotics researcher ORCA Hub has secured £2.5 million from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) to support its goal of making offshore energy safer and fully digitised. The Hub reports that £1.9 million of the fundin... |
| 14.06.2021 | Heriot-Watt Campus to House Clean Energy Solutions Research Centre | The Heriot-Watt University campus is to host a new technology and research centre to investigate clean energy solutions.
Oil and gas firm Petronas has founded its Centre of Excellence in Subsurface Engineering and Energy Transition (PACESET... |
| 08.06.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | May 2021 Edition | Funding and Investment R3-IoT
A consortium of research partners in Scotland has been awarded a £250,000 funding package to “revolutionise” Scottish fish farming.
Led by Glasgow-based satellite comms start-up R3-IoT, the group will develop a... |
| 10.05.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | April 2021 | Funding and Investment Ten Bio
Dundee University tech spin-out Ten Bio gained more than £900,000 to aid the ‘transformation’ of pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing.
The tech firm’s funding round was led by TRICAPITAL, with matched f... |
| 23.04.2021 | Underwater Danger Zones Get Robotic Aid Through New Funding | Heriot-Watt University’s National Robotarium has announced a funding package for the development of telexistence technologies.
Robotics software company Cyberselves will lead the project alongside the National Robotarium, to develop tools a... |
| 12.04.2021 | The DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | March 2021 | Funding and Investment Swipii
Glasgow-based tech startup Swipii has launched its first-ever crowdfund as it seeks to quadruple its business network to help power the Shop Local recovery last month.
Hosted by Crowdcube, the firm is seeking £... |
| 08.04.2021 | Innovative Wearable Tech Developed to Tackle Head Injuries in Sport | Based within the Edinburgh Business School Incubator at Heriot-Watt University, the innovative technology has been developed by start-up company HIT.
The device features a unique impact sensor, wearable across multiple sporting and activity... |
| 14.03.2021 | Why The Time Is Right To Bring Your Startup Ideas To Life In The UAE | March 14, 2021 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
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Entrepreneurship is, undoubtedly, a key driver of prosperity... |
| 08.03.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | February 2021 | Deals and Partnerships
Check Point and SBRC
Check Point announced it will partner with the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) to support its new cyber incident response helpline for Scottish SMEs.
Launched in October 2020, the free ... |
| 04.03.2021 | Construction Begins on National Robotarium R&D Centre | Based at Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus, the National Robotarium is supported by £21 million from the UK Government and £1.4m from the Scottish Government as part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
The cen... |
| 16.02.2021 | Millions to Benefit from an AI Glove Which Aids Muscle Grip Recovery | A robotic glove based on artificial intelligence (AI) tech could soon be helping millions of people recover muscle grip in their hands.
The technology has gained support from the Edinburgh Business School’s (EBS) Incubator, based at Heriot-... |
| 11.01.2021 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | December 2020 | Investment & Funding Alba Medical Sciences
A medical technology firm from Perth launched a funding appeal to finance its innovative infrared R&D project last month
Alba Medical Sciences is looking to raise £120,000 to fund the vario... |
| 12.11.2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | October 2020 | Investment and Funding METALtech UK
A metal fabrication SME METALtech UK was announced as the 100th recipient of the Scottish Government’s Digit Development Fund in October.
The Dundee-headquartered company is the latest in a line of firms ... |
| 22.10.2020 | Heriot-Watt Partnership to Help Boost Economic Recovery in Scotland | Heriot-Watt University has announced a partnership with product development agency Filament PD on a strategy to work on economic recovery in Scotland post-Covid-19.
The University’s Global Research Innovation and Discovery (GRID) facility w... |
| 04.08.2020 | Scientists to Explore How North Sea Infrastructure Influences Marine Life | Marine scientists from Heriot-Watt University are exploring the link between marine life and energy industry infrastructure, such as rigs and pipelines.
Throughout the North Sea, the base and legs of oil and gas platforms, subsea pipe netwo... |
| 24.04.2020 | 5G-Powered Energy Network Project Underway on Orkney | Orkney has announced a new energy network, led through Heriot-Watt University’s GRID facility and supported by The Scotland 5G Centre, with the hope of inspiring people and to become carbon neutral in the future through 5G.
The project will... |
| 16.08.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 16th of August 2019 | Cyan Forensics leads fight against child exploitation with US Partnership
Napier University spin-out Cyan Forensics has secured a major US partnership to help tackle child exploitation. @CyanForensics @MissingKids https://t.co/0wzO6Qp7Vo
— ... |
| 10.10.2018 | Scottish Demand for Data Science Talent Continues to Surge | Scotland’s insatiable demand for data science talent has prompted The Data Lab to increase its MSc places in the 2018/19 academic year.
This year’s cohort will increase by 25 to 155 and equates to a 310% increase since the programme launche... |
| 20.09.2018 | Heriot-Watt Researchers Aim to Pioneer Quantum Communications | Researchers at Heriot-Watt University could revolutionise the future of global quantum communications through the development of ‘satellite to ground receiver’ technology.
The receivers, which use photonic technology, will be designed as co... |
| 12.07.2018 | Edinburgh Business School’s Incubator Welcomes its First Cohort | Already, the new Edinburgh Business School Incubator has welcomed its first cohort of nine businesses, who have moved into the on-campus premises. Businesses accepted to the incubator range from innovators in remote monitoring for elderly c... |
| 14.06.2018 | Edinburgh Uni & Wayra UK Launch AI & Blockchain Accelerator | Beginning September 2018 the University of Edinburgh and Wayra UK, Telefónica’s open innovation platform, will launch an accelerator programme that will welcome 20 start-ups a year.
The £1.6 million agreement is Wayra UK’s first venture in ... |
| 09.05.2018 | CENSIS Board Welcomes Two New Members | Genoffir Macleod, VP and General Counsel of Thermo Fisher and Professor Steven McLaughlin Head of School, Engineering and Physical Sciences, at Heriot-Watt University have been appointed to the Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Syste... |
| 14.02.2018 | OGTC: Digital Supply Chain Event | According to the OGTC, the UK’s oil and gas sector lags behind many other industries when it comes to the innovative use of digital technologies within the supply chain
To address this, the centre is holding a Digital Supply Chain event to ... |
| 12.02.2018 | Edinburgh University Launches Data-Driven Innovation Fellowships | The University of Edinburgh is aiming to attract academics across a range of disciplines, with the creation of 30 Chancellor’s fellowships focused on data-enabled research to drive innovation across 10 industrial sectors:
Health and social ... |
| 22.01.2018 | Edinburgh Deli Gives Robot the Sack! | Margiotta, a family run company which is one of the last small food businesses in Edinburgh, recently took on a robotic employee, nick-named Fabio, as part of an experiment led by Heriot-Watt University for the BBC’s Six Robots & Us.
Ma... |
| 09.01.2018 | OGTC Announces £1.3M Investment In Four Projects | Over the next ten years around 1400 oil wells on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) are due to be abandoned, at a cost of almost £7 billion. The development of new technology to tackle this issue and reduce that cost is a target set by the UK’... |
| 01.12.2017 | Heriot-Watt Places 3rd in Global AI Speech Prize | One month after approving a Discovery and Innovation Centre for its main campus, Heriot-Watt University has furthered its bid to become one of Scotland’s leading tech hubs after reaching the final of Amazon’s Alexa Prize competition.
Awarde... |
| 26.09.2017 | University Led Audit Plans to Create Thousands of Tech Jobs | Blueprints for doubling the size of the enabling technologies sector in Scotland have been set out in a report involving the Universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Heriot Watt. The Science and Innovation Audit (SIA), led by Glasgow Econo... |
| 25.09.2017 | Young Software Engineer Of The Year Nominees Announced | The Young Software Engineer of the Year awards are a showcase for the computer science and software engineering talent coming through Scotland’s universities.
Each university can nominate one student who’s work will be judged on criteria wh... |
| 24.02.2017 | What words in your job ad are discouraging more people from applying? | It’s difficult to increase gender diversity in an organisation if few women apply for jobs there in the first place.
But individual choice doesn’t exist in a vacuum — research shows that using more masculine words in a job advertisement, su... |
| 11.12.2015 | Hyper-sensitive laser camera sees around corners in real time | You never know what’s around the corner — unless you happen to have a super-advanced camera designed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. This device has been designed to take extremely sensitive photographs that... |
| 16.10.2015 | Ada Lovelace and the role models who guide women towards a life less ordinary | A century before the first computers, Ada Lovelace wrote a study on the potential of Charles Babbage’s yet-to-be-built Analytical Engine. Babbage’s Analytical Engine is regarded as the world’s first computer and Lovelace the world’s first c... |
| - | Edinburgh’s ORCA Hub receives £2.5 million in further funding, aims to make offshore energy safer | Edinburgh-based offshore robotics researcher ORCA Hub has secured £2.5 million from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) to support its goal of making offshore energy safer and fully digitised. The Hub reports that £1.9 million of the fundin... |
| - | Scotland scientists invent groundbreaking low-emissions, recycled building brick | Scientists at Heriot Watt University in Scotland have developed the world’s first building brick that’s made from 90% recycled construction and demolition waste.
The K-Briq uses less than one-tenth of the energy in its manufacture, creates ... |
| - | EGEB: IBM is developing a seawater battery prototype, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
IBM tests batteries made with seawater components — and they look promising.
Ocean temperatures hit a record high in 2019 — and finance is going to alter due to climate change.
Scientists at a ... |
