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Campus delivery robots

A UC Berkeley startup called Kiwi thinks they've cracked a way to efficiently use robots to deliver food to your door. The company plans to expand outside of Berkeley later this year.

Remarkable Off Grid Success in India

Here are some outstanding achievements with much further to go: the Lighting a Billion Lives campaign from 2007 and allied work extending into solar weaving, cooking and boat charging.

Electricity Generation Turns to the Ocean

It is a matter of survival now. Neglect of global warming is causing rising sea levels that will soon flood an increasingly large number of cities, that and the melting icecaps making more of the fresh water in the world salty, so desalination is a market doubling every ten years.

Zero Emission Minigrids and Off Grid: Huge New Business Explained

At Wolfson College Cambridge 21 June there is a day of business insight forums on the burgeoning technology and application of off-grid electricity.

Novae Ltd

Novae are a fiber laser manufacturer. IDTechEx first had a discussion with Novae at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specializes in ultrafast pulsed fiber lasers and supercontinuum generation. Applications include chemical sensing, medical imaging and micromachining.

Cybel, LLC.

Cybel are a fiber laser manufacturer and a distributor of photonic systems manufactured by partner companies. IDTechEx first had a discussion with Cybel at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in February 2018. The company specializes in fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers for gas sensing and scientific applications.

NP Photonics, Inc.

NP Photonics are a fiber laser manufacturer. IDTechEx first had a discussion with NP Photonics at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specializes in fiber lasers for a variety of sensing applications.

Convergent Photonics

Convergent are a laser manufacturer who produce fiber, Nd:YAG and CO2 lasers. IDTechEx first had a discussion with Convergent at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specializes in multi-kilowatt fiber lasers for material processing applications.

Lumibird (Previously Keopsys Quantel)

Lumibird are a laser manufacturer. IDTechEx first had a discussion with Keopsys Quantel at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specializes in fiber lasers for sensing, healthcare and scientific applications. Quantel also offer a small range of fiber lasers for marking applications.

MWTechnologies, LDA

MWTech are a fiber laser manufacturer. IDTechEx first had a discussion with MWTech at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specializes in fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers for LiDAR and material processing applications

Stationary batteries go with the flow

RFBs have the potential to become a mainstream technology that will compete directly with lithium-ion and sodium-sulphur, currently the two leading chemistries in the stationary storage market.

Honda partners on General Motors' next gen battery development

General Motors Co and Honda announced an agreement for new advanced chemistry battery components, including the cell and module, to accelerate both companies' plans for all-electric vehicles.

Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels

The president of Costa Rica has announced during his presidential inauguration, plans for the nation to ban fossil fuels, aiming for the country to become the world's first decarbonised country.

SPI Lasers Limited

SPI Lasers are a fiber laser manufacturer and are a key player. IDTechEx first had a discussion with SPI Lasers at SPIE Photonics West 2018 in January 2018; this was followed by a full interview in March 2018. The company specialize in fiber lasers for material processing applications.

Transparent, conductive films for developing flexible screens

Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver. Smartphone touch screens and flat panel televisions use transparent electrodes to detect touch and to quickly switch the color of each pixel. Because silver is less brittle and more chemically resistant than materials currently used to make these electrodes, the new films could offer a high-performance and long-lasting option for use with flexible screens and electronics.

Nissan scores with Pitch-R robot

Nissan has unveiled an autonomous robot, which can draw football pitches wherever there is space.

Large-scale, sustainable 3D printing with cellulose

Cellulose is one of the most abundant and broadly distributed organic compound and industrial by-product on Earth. Yet, despite decades of extensive research, the bottom-up use of cellulose to fabricate 3D objects is still plagued with problems that restrict its practical applications: derivatives with vast polluting effects, used in combination with plastics, lack of scalability and high production cost.

IDTechEx's Energy and Mobility Research at Cambridge Insight Forums

IDTechEx will be hosting the coming 19th, 20th and 21st of June the IDTechEx's Business and Technology Insight Forums at Wolfson College in Cambridge. IDTechEx's Energy & Mobility Team will be presenting our latest research on Electric Vehicle Markets and Technologies on the 20th of June.

Seabased to bring wave energy to the Caribbean

Feasibility studies of the Caribbean project will begin on several islands this summer, and phase one is expected to be operational by the fall of 2019.

Daimler trucks sets up global e-mobility group

Daimler Trucks is establishing a global organization for e-mobility, including a new leadership function and has also presented two new, fully-electric trucks from Freightliner, its leading U.S. truck brand.