United States Senators are taking steps to protect supply chains from attack, reports SC Media. 

US Senators Mike Crapo and Mark Warner have introduced federal legislation designed to protect critical technologies from supply chain attacks by China and other foreign threat actors.

According to RBR, as the use of robots in the supply chain increases there needs to be a clear source of energy to power the robots. 

With the market for autonomous mobile robots skyrocketing, and automation rapidly transforming the global supply chain, the time is long overdue for a fresh look at the sustainable energy solutions that will power the robot economy of tomorrow. 

Startup LumaChain wants to use blockchain to help detect and prevent slave labor in the global food supply chain, reports the Financial Review. 

Former Qantas chief information officer Jamila Gordon has attracted backing from the CSIRO's $240 million venture capital fund Main Sequence Ventures, to expand the operations of her start-up Lumachain, which is looking to use blockchain technology to make food production and manufacturing more transparent amid global efforts to eradicate slave labour