NOBLELIFT, BASED in Changxing, a town on the banks of Tai Lake, provides robotic tools for warehouse management: self-driving pallet jacks and sorting systems that make picking and fetching quicker and less dependent on humans. The factories in which it builds its wares are themselves a blur of robot arms. “There’s no comparison with the
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As the role of central banks evolves, innovations that will boost financial inclusion need to be at the forefront of all actions they undertake. That’s the conclusion of the two-year Central Bank of the Future research project, conducted by the Ford School of Public Policy’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy, with support from the
84% of respondents to the IMechE and IET survey ranked automation, robotics and mechatronics as the most important skills for manufacturing engineers in the next 10 years (Credit: Shutterstock) Future manufacturing engineers will need to complement deep knowledge of automation and robotics with advanced communication skills and creativity to keep up
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) have published a report exploring the views and thoughts on the future manufacturing engineer. A knack for creativity and design, coupled with specialist skills in automation, robotics and mechatronics are now the suite of skills ranked
For many people, financial technology is somewhat incidental. It is a passing part of daily life: we interact with fintech when we send money online, check our bank balances with our mobile phones, or use an app to buy cryptocurrency. However, for much of the world fintech is so much more. Financial technology can and will
One of the biggest questions hanging over the U.S. economy right now is whether the government is spending too much money. Some prominent economists are warning it’s time to pump the brakes. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package came on top of $3.1 trillion in similar outlays back in 2020; and now the