Case Studies

Many modern factories contain highly dynamic environments where robots work autonomously to assemble products. This presents a problem for those industries where individual components need to be tracked in real-time with high precision. Laser trackers can determine distance and position of single targets with sub-millimetre acc...

2024 was the first year that average global temperature exceeded 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. Africa, in particular, was hard hit that year, with Zambia and Zimbabwe suffering the worst drought in two decades, reducing cereal yields by 42% and 50% respectively. As daytime temperatures in parts of the continent reached 45º...

One of the first discoveries of the space age in 1958 was the existence of two doughnut-shaped radiation zones around the Earth, the “Van Allen Belts”. Formed from energetic particles generated by distant cosmic events or from the solar wind, these follow the Earth’s magnetic field lines. The inner belt, composed mostly of ener...

The vast majority of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface is composed of UV and visible shortwave radiation (≤3 μm). This energy is absorbed by the oceans and landmasses and reemitted as longwave thermal radiation (4 μm - 100 μm). Although some escapes into space, certain wavelengths are absorbed by atmospheric gases such as c...

The EU targets reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. The International Energy Agency, however, has highlighted that, data centres alone consumed 1.5% of the world’s electricity in 2024 and, partly due to energy-intensive computing such as AI, this will more than double by 2030. One ...

Over the last few centuries, carbon trapped by millions of years of plant and animal deposition has been released into the environment as carbon dioxide (CO2) through the burning of fossil fuels. In 1958 the measured level of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere was 315 parts per million (ppm), in 2024 it reached 423.9 ppm and...