Budget 2017: Prizes for robotics, artificial intelligence and battery innovators to be announced | The Independent

by Alex Kirkpatrick

07 March 2017

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The Chancellor Philip Hammond will outline plans in Wednesday’s Budget to make hundreds of millions of pounds available to scientists and researchers to develop solutions to hi-tech challenges including artificial intelligence and robotics, next generation batteries and new techniques for manufacturing medicines.

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