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News | 14-07-21
Resilient UK tech industry
This month, the UK tech industry showed that despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech start-ups have performed strongly throughout 2020 with the arrival of the one hundredth tech firm to be valued at over $1 billion.
News | 07-07-21
Space, Cleantech and Digital Technology
As we move into the second half of 2021, we wanted to share with you some of the key insights and learnings we’ve gained during the first half. We’ve highlighted the new emerging markets for UK robotics and automation companies, which present real opportunities for the RAI and manufacturing communities.
News | 17-06-21
Tharsus Group delivers Growth Despite Pandemic
This year’s annual results showed that despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tharsus Group performed strongly throughout 2020. Revenue increased by 40% from £58m to £81m, while pre-tax profits almost doubled.
News | 17-06-21
Tharsus Selected to Join Future Fifty
At Tharsus, we are excited to have been selected to join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme. Future Fifty is Europe’s leading growth programme for late-stage tech scale-ups.
News | 16-06-21
Robotic Innovation at RAI
At Tharsus, we’re proud to join a pioneering robotics showcase with UK robotics companies to share our perspectives on innovation in the industry. A number of our team spoke at The Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Industry Showcase, a unique community-led event that stimulates collaborative development for solving real world problems with RAI.
News | 16-06-21
Engineer Progress: Unlocking innovation
Looking back over past year, we have witnessed the incredible work that can happen when people from different sectors collaborate. From the unprecedented pace of the vaccination drive to the incredible story of the Nightingale Hospital, one of the most important lessons we must remember when the pandemic is eventually over is what we can achieve when we work together...
News | 14-05-21
Blyth welcomes more innovation
The Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) test centre, the first of its kind in the UK, is being developed by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult in Blyth.
News | 14-05-21
A summer of sport
In a statement, UEFA reiterated its intention to hold the Euro 2020 football tournament this summer. Lessons can be learnt from the 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon, which we were proud to support. Our wearable device Bump helped participants maintain social distancing by sending alerts to its wearers. This is just one example of how robotic innovation could help fans...
News | 14-05-21
Former CEO of Dyson joins the Tharsus board
We’re delighted to welcome former Dyson CEO Martin McCourt to the Tharsus board. Martin brings more than 40 years of experience working at the heart of British-based manufacturing, design and marketing for brands such as Dyson, Mars, Duracell, Toshiba and Pelikan.
News | 14-05-21
Building Strategic Machines
At Tharsus, we design and manufacture Strategic Machines. Strategic Machines improve our customers’ business performance by solving tough automation problems and creating new business opportunities. This can be done in any sector – robotics companies, warehouse automation, and so on.
News | 19-11-22
Tharsus represents the North East in Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme
We’re delighted to be part of the new Tech Nation Future Fifty programme cohort. Future Fifty is Europe’s leading late-stage growth programme, designed to bring together, empower and accelerate the growth of the UK’s tech sector.
News | 17-02-21
Tharsus Group’s Chairman’s Awards Ceremony
Last week, we held our annual Chairman’s Awards ceremony for Tharsus and Universal Wolf colleagues. Here, we celebrate and recognise those who have been nominated by fellow colleagues as shining examples of our Group’s Vision, Mission and Values and being a real inspiration to others. Here are our winners and their stories.
