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LATEST ARTICLES FROM 3D Printing Progress

3D bioprinted organ models key to $1.9 billion market
There is no doubt that 3D bioprinting is a technology of the future. Imagine being able to print a kidney or liver on demand. This is a stark contrast to the long wait for a donor organ today. Currently, the average wait time for a liver is 4 to 5 mo...
3D printed get up and go bots getting closer, study says
Robotics researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time used a commercial 3D printer to embed complex sensors inside robotic limbs and grippers. But they found that materials commercially available for 3D printing still...
US Army wants world's largest, fastest metal powder 3D printer
3D Systems has been awarded a $15 million contract by the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, also known as ARL, to create the world's largest, fastest, most precise metal 3D printer. This printer will revolutionize key ...
3D Printing helps bring Night Watch of Rembrandt to life
From July 4 until August 4, 2019 photographer Julius Rooymans and fashion designer Hans Ubbink present in their exhibition Nachtwacht 360 a photographic reproduction of Rembrandt's masterpiece Night Watch in full size. On this lifelike photograph, th...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Advanced Batteries & Energy Storage Research

Koolen invests in hydrogen bromine flow battery maker Elestor
Koolen Industries has signed the agreement for a multi-million investment in the electricity storage company Elestor BV. After years of research and development, Elestor is at the verge of introducing its revolutionary hydrogen bromine flow battery t...
Bosch extends the service life of electric vehicle batteries
Stress makes cells age faster. Something that geneticists have long since demonstrated for the human body is also true for electric-vehicle battery cells. The older the batteries get, the lower their performance and capacity, and the shorter the rang...
Highview Power and Tenaska Power Services cryogenic energy storage
Highview Power has contracted Tenaska Power Services Co to identify, model, optimize and provide energy management services for up to four giga-scale cryogenic energy storage plants in the United States over two years. The initial project is expected...
High-safety, flexible and scalable rechargeable planar micro-batteries
Increasing development of micro-scale electronics has stimulated demand of the corresponding micro-scale power sources, especially for micro-batteries (MBs). However, complex manufacturing process and poor flexibility of the traditional stacked batte...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Artificial Intelligence Research

AI beats professionals in six-player poker
An artificial intelligence program developed by Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with Facebook AI has defeated leading professionals in six-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker, the world's most popular form of poker. The AI, called Pluri...
Teaching a humanoid robot to communicate in sign language
Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have published a paper featuring the results of research into interactions between robots and deaf people, in which they were able to programme a humanoid - called TEO - to communicate in si...
Laser diodes: How smartphones and self-driving cars see the world
Tiny infrared lasers offer 3D sensing functionality for consumer electronics like smartphones and robots like self-driving cars. In this article, the technology consulting firm IDTechEx demonstrate how advances in laser technology and decreases in la...
Machine learning tries to crack disputed Beatles authorship
Researchers at Harvard University and Canada's Dalhousie University used machine learning to ascertain the authorship of disputed Beatles songs. Over a three-year period, the team created an algorithm and applied it to an array of musical motifs ta...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Electric Vehicles Research

Trends in power electronics and their link to die attach technology
This series of articles focuses on the potential use of metal sintering pastes and materials in electric vehicle power electronics (PE). In the first part of this series (this article), we consider the key trends shaping power electronics. First, w...
Electric bus demand surging outside China
In electric vehicles, China is not what it used to be. Electric bike demand collapsed five years ago, and electric bus demand followed two years ago. With electric buses, the reason was entirely a precipitous drop in government financial support of d...
The new MINI Cooper SE, fully electric
Urban mobility with purely electric drive can now also be experienced in hallmark MINI style. The new MINI Cooper SE combines sustainable mobility with the design and quality that are typical of MINI. As such, the first solely electrically powered mo...
Bosch extends the service life of electric vehicle batteries
Stress makes cells age faster. Something that geneticists have long since demonstrated for the human body is also true for electric-vehicle battery cells. The older the batteries get, the lower their performance and capacity, and the shorter the rang...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Global Biotechnology Insights

Changing a Century Old Paradigm for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a condition characterized by high blood glucose. In a healthy individual, blood glucose is regulated by insulin, a hormone that is produced by the beta cells of the pancreatic islets. When blood gluco...
3D bioprinted organ models key to $1.9 billion market
There is no doubt that 3D bioprinting is a technology of the future. Imagine being able to print a kidney or liver on demand. This is a stark contrast to the long wait for a donor organ today. Currently, the average wait time for a liver is 4 to 5 mo...
Clinical study: personalised treatment of overactive bladder in women
FemPulse Corporation (FemPulse), a private, clinical-stage bioelectronic medicine company developing a novel therapy for the personalized treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) in women, announced that the first participant has been enrolled in the Co...
Corti
Company and technology details Corti was founded in January 2016 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. All of the company's devices are hand built in custom aluminum and steel there. It employs 11-50 people, according to LinkedIn. The compa...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Off Grid Energy Independence

A crystal clear step closer to commercial solar cells
A synthetic approach developed by KAUST researchers generates homogeneous and defect-free crystals that could fast-track the commercialization of perovskite solar cells. For more information see the IDTechEx report on Perovskite Photovoltaics 2018-20...
Window film evens out indoor temperature using solar energy
​A window film with a specially designed molecule could be capable of taking the edge off the worst midday heat and instead distributing it evenly from morning to evening. The molecule has the unique ability to capture energy from the sun's ray...
Namibia to boost rural electrification mini-grids
IBC SOLAR is supporting Bavarian universities to create a pilot project for expanding the energy supply into rural areas of Namibia. The aim of the project "PROCEED" is to achieve a sustainable improvement in the energy supply based on rene...
Canada's first utility-scale microgrid
S&C Electric Company, a smart grid leader improving power reliability and delivery worldwide, and North Bay Hydro Services, an Ontario-based municipal electric utility affiliate services provider, announced the completion of North Bay's Community...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Printed Electronics World

Trends in power electronics and their link to die attach technology
This series of articles focuses on the potential use of metal sintering pastes and materials in electric vehicle power electronics (PE). In the first part of this series (this article), we consider the key trends shaping power electronics. First, w...
Sheaths become mighty new layer in artificial muscles
Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging from high-tech carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ordinary ...
A crystal clear step closer to commercial solar cells
A synthetic approach developed by KAUST researchers generates homogeneous and defect-free crystals that could fast-track the commercialization of perovskite solar cells. For more information see the IDTechEx report on Perovskite Photovoltaics 2018-20...
Artificial "muscles" achieve powerful pulling force
As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this co...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Robotics Research

Sheaths become mighty new layer in artificial muscles
Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging from high-tech carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ordinary ...
Artificial "muscles" achieve powerful pulling force
As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this co...
Teaching a humanoid robot to communicate in sign language
Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have published a paper featuring the results of research into interactions between robots and deaf people, in which they were able to programme a humanoid - called TEO - to communicate in si...
3D printed get up and go bots getting closer, study says
Robotics researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time used a commercial 3D printer to embed complex sensors inside robotic limbs and grippers. But they found that materials commercially available for 3D printing still...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Wearable Technology Insights

Changing a Century Old Paradigm for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a condition characterized by high blood glucose. In a healthy individual, blood glucose is regulated by insulin, a hormone that is produced by the beta cells of the pancreatic islets. When blood gluco...
Sheaths become mighty new layer in artificial muscles
Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have invented several types of strong, powerful artificial muscles using materials ranging from high-tech carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to ordinary ...
Red wine may hold the key to next-gen wearable technology
A team of scientists are seeking to kick-start a wearable technology revolution by creating flexible fibres and adding acids from red wine. Extracting tannic acid from red wine, coffee or black tea, led a team of scientists from The University of M...
High-safety, flexible and scalable rechargeable planar micro-batteries
Increasing development of micro-scale electronics has stimulated demand of the corresponding micro-scale power sources, especially for micro-batteries (MBs). However, complex manufacturing process and poor flexibility of the traditional stacked batte...