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OXIS Energy Leads its Largest Project Yet
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 ...
Duke of York Sees Energy Revolution in the Making at Culham Science Centre
HRH The Duke of York visited UKAEA to see at first hand the pioneering work on fusion energy. He toured JET and was shown round the facility by officials from UKAEA, EUROfusion (the consortium that manages the JET research programme) and the European Commission. A keen advocate of UK business and innovation, The Duke also ...
How Enjoying A Coffee Is Assisting Technology To Evolve
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 ...
International Womens Day
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
Oxbotica gets Government Funding to Develop Driverless Technology for Construction Vehicles
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 ...
OXIS Energy to Train Brazilian Team at CSC
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 ...
Neuro-Bio expands at Culham Science Centre
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 ...
Oxfordshire Advances Skills Career Event on 1 February 2018
A reminder that next Thursday, 1 February, Culham’s apprentice training centre OAS is holding a recruitment event in the E3 Foyer. The event will launch the start of the 2018 recruitment campaign for engineering and technology apprenticeships. Exhibiting at the event will be many of Oxfordshire’s top engineering companies who have already endorsed the OAS ...
Santa Run
More than 50 runners donning Santa Claus outfits and various regalia braved the cold to complete a 5-kilometre course in a bid to stump up cash for charity. Multiple Santa’s from across the site neglected a traditional sleigh and instead ran or jogged a route which started and finished on Farm Way. Around 55 employees ...
