In session five of our Launchpad series: Ready to Launch, Frontier Tech Stories Lead Lil digs into the relationship between stories and narratives, and how to understand their connection with each pilot project.

Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation. This month we're On the Frontier of Robotics.

Robots are often imagined as sleek, futuristic machines—polished humanoid figures, precise robotic arms, or autonomous delivery bots. But what if the real future of robotics looks more like the Millennium Falcon—messy, modular, and built to withstand real-world conditions?

Have you ever tried a recipe box for cooking? We’ve developed a similar, recipe-based approach for using our LLM tool, to help users understand what’s possible when creating a knowledge product.

As part of the FT Hub’s Helpdesk offer, we conducted a rapid desk review to explore how AI could support education outcomes in Tanzania and Sierra Leone, as well as in other LMICs. Read on to find out more or read the full report.

Raising funds to get your early-stage innovation off the ground can be challenging. Our blog contains practical guidance for giving investors confidence to buy into your vision.

Read on to find out how we’re exploring user needs through real-world testing of the digital MyDemokrasi platform - which gives Malaysian voters data and information on politics in real time.

Discover how the FT Hub, in collaboration with Drones Doing Good Alliance, has been bringing together Peer Action Groups for African Civil Aviation Authorities to promote the safe and sustainable use of drones.

Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation. This month we're On the Frontier of Local Manufacturing.

In our first Launchpad series, Ready to launch we explored the innovation methodology we use to test a pilot project idea.

Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation. This month we're On the Frontier of Carbon Markets.

The Global South faces urgent climate challenges, and it also offers significant potential for climate mitigation and adaptation through its ecosystems. But this potential is untapped. Today, Africa receives just 3% of global climate finance. 

Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation. This month we're on the Frontier of Generative AI.

Read the final report for our pilot ‘Using AI to scale access to forest carbon markets’

One of 5 key trends related to the likely growing influence of AI over the next 10 years, on our lives and on the work of diplomats around the world as it grows in sophistication and maturity. 

A blog piece by FCDO Pioneer Seb Mhatre outlining the future of LLMs in knowledge management for international development, arguing that the creation of a community of practice is needed.

Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation, where FCDO colleagues are working with partners to test solutions in the real world. This month? We're on the Frontier of Sustainable Agriculture.

Learn more about Zero Circular’s overarching goal: to introduce biodegradable plastics into the plastic ecosystem in Nepal

Read about Zero Circular’s retrofitting of existing plastics machines to manufacture bioplastics in Nepal

Read the report for our pilot 'Smart GeoSeals to track delivery of humanitarian aid' here