One in three UK adults see a key role for the use of robotics in tackling the COVID-19 crisis and future pandemics, recent research has highlighted. The public poll, commissioned by the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network, which was released as part of the annual UK Robotics Week, which returned for its fifth year in June 2020.

DFA Media, the publisher of Plant & Works Engineering and its sister magazines Drives & Controls, Smart Machines and Factories and Hydraulics & Pneumatics, is proud to announce Talking Industry, a new series of live digitally broadcast panel discussions with leading experts from the industrial, automation and manufacturing sectors.

Made Smarter and engineering skills organisation Enginuity have worked together to launch a platform, which delivers digital engineering skills in one place to Britain’s engineers and manufacturers at a time when they are needed more than ever.