Oshen is building for one of the planet’s largest blind spots. Oceans cover most of Earth, yet vast areas are still observed only intermittently because ships, buoys, satellites, and crewed missions cannot provide persistent coverage everywhere. The Plymouth-based company is trying to change that with fleets of small autonomous robots that can stay at sea […]
Nanolope wants the surfaces already surrounding people inside a building to do more than divide rooms. The Berlin deep-tech company has developed retrofit panels that absorb excess heat as indoor temperatures rise and release it again when temperatures fall, effectively turning ceilings, walls and floors into passive thermal storage. Its target is the enormous stock […]