Aurox is on a mission to bring the Clarity laser free confocal technology to an ever greater number of applications in microscopy. Wherever, applications are plagued by out-of-focus images Aurox can potentially bring confocal Clarity to give higher quality and 3-D imaging. The latest step in our mission brings Clarity to the Macroscope. To achieve … Read more
Yesterday (Wednesday 18th April 2018) the DRIVEN consortium demonstrated publicly for the first time the capabilities of its fleet of autonomous vehicles to interact and ‘talk’ to each other. From its headquarters at the RACE Building at the Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, DRIVEN set two of its vehicles, a white and blue 2014 Ford … Read more
Reaction Engines Limited (‘Reaction Engines’) today announced that it has raised a further £26.5 million in a strategic fundraising by securing backing from some of the most influential names in aerospace and finance which will support its development of SABRE™ – a revolutionary new class of aerospace engine combining jet and rocket technologies. New strategic … Read more
The Lithium Sulfur Future Automotive Battery (LiSFAB) project, valued at £7m, led by OXIS Energy and funded by Innovate UK will help to transform electric vehicle technology for commercial use. It will develop a next generation cell and module that is suitable for large electric vehicles such as trucks and buses and will deliver a … Read more
The guys at RACE based at Culham Science Centre, have been collecting data for their Vote3Deep project. This technology transfers information from the lab to vehicles for high performance, real time object detection. In practical terms this means we need to collect data that Vote3Deep can, via machine learning, recognise pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles etc. One … Read more
We’ve been celebrating International Women’s Day today by showing our commitment to accelerating gender parity with the help of our new Inclusion Ambassadors at Culham Science Centre. A recent report conducted by the World Economic Forum found that, at the current rate, gender parity won’t be achieved for over 200 years #PressforProgress
An Oxfordshire company is set to receive millions of pounds of government funding to develop its driverless car technology for use in heavy machinery. Oxbotica will work with construction giant Caterpillar to create an autonomous truck for off road use in ‘extreme environments’ such as mines. The project, which could ‘revolutionise’ the construction and mining … Read more
Culham Science Centre (CSC) is delighted to announce our tenant OXIS Energy has secured a £3.7 million investment from Brazilian Private Equity fund Aerotec, which marks the fund’s first international investment. This latest investment paves the way for OXIS Energy to open a subsidiary in Brazil and the company has confirmed its Brazilian team will … Read more
An exciting biotech firm that’s developing an alternative approach to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s has won £2.5 million of funding from US based Kairos Ventures, fuelling expansion and a move to larger premises at Culham Science Centre (CSC). Founded by Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield, Neuro-Bio is an Oxford University spin-out that’s pioneering a novel … Read more
