What Comes Next?

The world needs more doctors. Two-thirds of the global population don't have access to safe and affordable surgery. And in the UK, we simply aren’t training enough surgeons to replace the ones that will soon retire. Could VR training be the solution? We talk to Steve Dann, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of immersive medical training company, Medical Realities, about the hopes for VR throughout the medical field. FIND OUT MORE Medical Realities: medicalrealities.com 360 Surgical Training Video: youtube.com/watch?v=n7ALZkPoTYQ GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery opinions? We'd love to hear them! Drop us an email at [email protected] FIND US ONLINE For the latest updates, and even more content, make sure you follow us online Twitter: @wcnpod Instagram: @wcnpod Questions & comments? Email us at [email protected]

Vision - the complex skill of determining what is and is not a cat. While most of us take it for granted, it’s an ability that has long eluded even our most sophisticated machine learning algorithms...until now. We talk to Alberto Rizzoli, Co-Founder and CEO of V7 Labs, a deep learning company that is well on its way to "making machines see like humans". FIND OUT MORE v7labs.com GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery feedback? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us an email at [email protected] FIND US ONLINE For the latest updates, and even more content, make sure you follow us online Twitter: @wcnpod Instagram: @wcnpod

Handles, twisty-tops, fiddly buttons. The whole world is built for human hands, so why don't we give robots hands, too? Well, that's exactly what Shadow Robot Company are doing. The ingenious company has developed the world's most lifelike robotic hand. It's so realistic, it even has fingernails! We talk to Managing Director, Rich Walker, about the captivating creation, and explore what its digital digits mean for automation, telepresence, and telerobotics. FIND OUT MORE Shadow Robot Company: shadowrobot.com Awesome videos of robot hands: youtube.com/user/srcteam GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery feedback? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us an email at [email protected] FIND US ONLINE For the latest updates, and even more content, make sure you follow us online Twitter: @wcnpod Instagram: @wcnpod

Cities are getting larger, denser, and much, much hungrier. So, why don’t we move food production a little closer to home? We talk to Steve Dring, Co-Founder and CEO of Growing Underground, owners of the world’s first underground farm. Their luminous pink facility sits 33 metres under the streets of London, and grows microgreens and salad leaves much more efficiently than traditional methods. Could this be a blueprint for the farms of the future? FIND OUT MORE Growing Underground: growing-underground.com GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery feedback? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us an email at [email protected] FIND US ONLINE Website: what-comes-next.simplecast.com Twitter: twitter.com/wcnpod Instagram: instagram.com/wcnpod