The ID. Buzz AD, the first fully autonomous production vehicle from Volkswagen, is to be deployed in Europe and the US from 2026.

Amazon’s driverless taxi subsidiary Zoox has opened its first production facility for purpose-built robotaxis in the US and hopes to build more than 10,000 a year.

The mass rollout of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been mooted for years, but a range of challenges have raised serious doubts over whether this potentially transformative technology will ever move from the drawing board to the driving seat.

UK start-up Wayve is to install its autonomous driving software in Nissan cars from 2027

UK defence firm Babcock has announced it has started building key components for the SSN-AUKUS next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine programme.

The new Janet Harvey Hall at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Govan, located on the south bank of the River Clyde, will be used to assemble and outfit Royal Navy warships.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has completed a large-scale propulsion test that could power hypersonic cruise missiles by 2030.

Within three years of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has become the most mine-contaminated country in the world. Clearing up the lethal landscape will take decades – unless new technologies speed up the process.

MAN Energy Solutions’s industrial-scale seawater heat pump located at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark, starts delivering sustainable heating to 25,000 households.

Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation is to develop a practical quantum computer with applications ranging from creating new drugs to finding links between genes, environment and disease.

A battery-powered Danish ferry has demonstrated its capability by sailing 50 nautical miles (92km) without recharging, during a world conference on energy efficiency. The distance is said to mark a new world record.

Denmark’s Greensand carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has received major backing from a consortium of energy firms as the country makes strides towards its goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 70 per cent by 2030.

The government has said that all vessels that operate in UK waters and dock at UK ports should be carbon free by 2050 as part of its climate change goals.

Clearly neither Los Angeles burning out west, nor the unusually cold weather in the east that drove the inauguration ceremonies indoors, could persuade incoming President Trump that pulling out of the Paris Agreement was anything but a good idea.

In our last issue, we looked at some of the most hazardous jobs in the engineering sector. But one stood out as being worthy of an article in its own right – saturation diving for the offshore oil and gas industry.

A 130-metre ‘hydrogen-ready’ catamaran is under development, with the capacity to transport up to 1,500 passengers with their cargo alongside 400 vehicles.

Changes to EU rules around carbon offsets amount to a watering down of commitments, climate campaigners have said.

Ofgem has approved an initial £24bn investment in Britain’s energy networks that could see consumer bills rise to cover the cost.

Three vulnerabilities have been identified in Bluetooth headphones made by the likes of Sony, Jabra and Marshall that could allow attackers to eavesdrop on conversations or retrieve call history and stored contacts.

The British royal train will be decommissioned by 2027, Buckingham Palace has announced, as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures.

The UK Space Agency has started a £75.6m tender process to launch the first UK mission tackling space debris.

Changes to EU rules around carbon offsets amount to a watering down of commitments, climate campaigners have said.

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare will now default to blocking AI scraper bots from accessing original content on client websites without permission or compensation.

A fire at a Heathrow airport substation, owned by the National Grid, was caused by a problem first detected seven years ago but never fixed, according to a report by the National Energy System Operator.