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LATEST ARTICLES FROM 3D Printing Progress

$1.5 million grant for environmentally friendly 3D printed concrete
A team of UCLA engineers has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop 3D-printed concrete that incorporates carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as part of a binder. For more information see the IDTechEx report on 3D...
3D printed rocket fuel comparison
James Cook University (JCU) scientists in Australia are using 3D printing to create fuels for rockets, and using tailor-made rocket motors they've built to test the fuels. For more information see the IDTechEx report on 3D Printing 2019-2029 . JCU ...
Rapid, low-cost method to 3D print microfluidic devices
Microfluidics is the manipulation and study of sub-microscopic liters of fluids. Technologies that utilise microfluidics are found in many multidisciplinary fields ranging from engineering to biology. Experiments can be performed on a device roughly ...
Artificial Intelligence for 3D Printing
Learn more about PrintSYSt: www.PrintSYSt.com Filmed at IDTechEx Show! Europe 201...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Advanced Batteries & Energy Storage Research

Funding for utility-scale energy storage technology
Energy Vault, creator of renewable energy storage products for utility-scale energy storage, has completed a $110 million Series B funding round. The investment for the round was made by SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) in its first investment in e...
New type of electrolyte could enhance supercapacitor performance
Supercapacitors, electrical devices that store and release energy, need a layer of electrolyte — an electrically conductive material that can be solid, liquid, or somewhere in between. Now, researchers at MIT and several other institutions have...
Partnership on 2nd-life battery storage
Daimler AG with its wholly owned subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy GmbH and Beijing Electric Vehicle Co Ltd (BJEV), a subsidiary of the BAIC Group, have entered into a development partnership, intending to establish 2nd-life energy storage systems in C...
Dominion Energy announces battery storage pilot projects
Dominion Energy Virginia announced four battery storage pilot projects to help pave the way for additional energy storage technology needed to support the company's increase in renewables and to improve grid reliability. For more information see the ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Artificial Intelligence Research

Better food and faster analysis of blood tests
Researchers have figured out how to use deep learning to speed up the analysis of gas chromatographic data. Because this type of analysis is used in many parts of society, the new method will have a major impact on quality, efficiency and cost when e...
Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that 'feel pain'
Researchers from the University of Cambridge will use self-healing materials and machine learning to develop soft robotics as part of a new collaborative project. For more information see the IDTechEx report on New Robotics and Drones 2018-2038: Tech...
Machine learning tool improves tracking of tiny moving particles
Scientists have developed an automated tool for mapping the movement of particles inside cells that may accelerate research in many fields, a new study in eLife reports. The movements of tiny molecules, proteins and cellular components throughout t...
$7.5 billion 'smart mini-city' to be built in Las Vegas
Bleutech Park Las Vegas, sponsored by Bleutech Park Properties Inc, is breaking ground in the Las Vegas Valley in December 2019 as the first city in the world to boast a digital revolution in motion, redefining the infrastructure industry sector. Thi...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Electric Vehicles Research

Mercedes‑Benz Cars is pushing ahead with plug-in hybrids
Plug-in hybrids are an important milestone on the road to zero-emissions driving. Mercedes‑Benz Cars is pushing ahead with the development of its plug-in hybrids under the EQ Power label. With the A 250 e, A 250 e Saloon and B 250 e models from...
Portable electric vehicle charging station shows potential
Sam Elliott, living in Texas, has a YouTube channel called Innovative Sustainable Solutions where he has recently been showing videos of his progress in creating a portable electric vehicle charging station. The portable charger has been tested on ...
Colorado Air Quality Control adopts a zero-emission vehicle standard
The Air Quality Control Commission adopted a zero-emission vehicle standard for Colorado in an 8-1 decision. The move is directly aligned with the commission's mission to achieve the cleanest air practical in every part of the state. For more inform...
Material players set for big gains/losses in EV $1,000+ bn revolution
The electric vehicle market is growing very quickly. IDTechEx forecast that the total market will exceed $1,000bn value within the next 5-years across all categories: land, sea, and air. This huge growth is resulting in a large amount of turbulence w...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Global Biotechnology Insights

Tiny biodegradable circuits for releasing painkillers inside the body
EPFL researchers have developed biodegradable microresonators that can be heated locally with a wireless system. Doctors could soon be using them in implants to control the release of painkillers within tissue. For more information see the IDTechEx r...
Scientists can now manipulate brain cells using smartphone
A team of scientists in Korea and the United States have invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone. Researchers, publishing in Nature Biomedical Engineering, believe the device can speed ...
IDTechEx: advanced wound care market to exceed $22 billion by 2030
IDTechEx, a market intelligence company focusing on emerging technologies, have released a new report titled Advanced Wound Care Technologies 2020-2030 . In the report, IDTechEx forecasts the market for advanced wound care technologies to exceed $22 ...
New biobased polymers coming to market in 2019
Biobased polymers are gaining increased prominence in the minds of consumers, as increased awareness of climate change and plastic pollution continues to grow. However, the range of biobased alternatives to the main plastics we encounter in our daily...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Off Grid Energy Independence

Portable electric vehicle charging station shows potential
Sam Elliott, living in Texas, has a YouTube channel called Innovative Sustainable Solutions where he has recently been showing videos of his progress in creating a portable electric vehicle charging station. The portable charger has been tested on ...
Funding for utility-scale energy storage technology
Energy Vault, creator of renewable energy storage products for utility-scale energy storage, has completed a $110 million Series B funding round. The investment for the round was made by SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) in its first investment in e...
Europe has the untapped onshore capacity to meet global energy demand
Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis from the University of Sussex and Aarhus University has revealed. In an analysis of all suitable sites for onsho...
Solar powered furniture for smart cities
Australian furniture brand Sedi has created the next generation in smart, sustainable and solar powered urban furniture. Sedi uses state of the art technology to increase comfort, safety and usability whilst providing an attractive addition to outdoo...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Printed Electronics World

Tiny biodegradable circuits for releasing painkillers inside the body
EPFL researchers have developed biodegradable microresonators that can be heated locally with a wireless system. Doctors could soon be using them in implants to control the release of painkillers within tissue. For more information see the IDTechEx r...
Electronic paper patient and room information displays
E Ink Holdings and Digital, Connected, Intelligent Health Technology Inc (DCI) have announced their collaboration launching digital healthcare displays using E Ink. The Patient Information Display and the Room Information Display created by DCI offer...
Wireless sensors that stick to the skin
We tend to take our skin's protective function for granted, ignoring its other roles in signaling subtleties like a fluttering heart or a flush of embarrassment. Now, Stanford engineers have developed a way to detect physiological signals emanating f...
Towards smart packaging that detects the presence of salmonella
When food is recalled due to contamination from bacteria such as salmonella, one may wonder how a tainted product ended up on store shelves. New technology being developed at the University of Missouri could give retailers and regulators an earlier w...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Robotics Research

Researchers study birds to improve how robots land
Under the watchful eyes of five high-speed cameras, a small, pale-blue bird named Gary waits for the signal to fly. Diana Chin, a graduate student at Stanford University and Gary's trainer, points her finger to a perch about 20 inches away. The catch...
A robot that can build its own tools
Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on the verge of their own version of the Stone Age. Using a novel capability to reason about shape, function, and attachment of unrelated parts, researchers have for the...
Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that 'feel pain'
Researchers from the University of Cambridge will use self-healing materials and machine learning to develop soft robotics as part of a new collaborative project. For more information see the IDTechEx report on New Robotics and Drones 2018-2038: Tech...
Robotic jellyfish able to perform 3D jet propulsion and maneuvers
As a source of inspiration, aquatic creatures such as fish, cetaceans, and jellyfish could inspire innovative designs to improve the ways that manmade systems operate in and interact with aquatic environments. Jellyfishes in nature propel themselves ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Wearable Technology Insights

Printed sensors detect what's in your sweat
Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what's in your sweat. They hope that one day, monitoring perspiration could bypass the need for more inv...
Wireless sensors that stick to the skin
We tend to take our skin's protective function for granted, ignoring its other roles in signaling subtleties like a fluttering heart or a flush of embarrassment. Now, Stanford engineers have developed a way to detect physiological signals emanating f...
Wearable moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world
Imagine if a coach could know which moments of competition a certain player might peak, or if a truck driver had objective data telling him his body and mind were too tired to continue driving. Fore more information see the IDTechEx report on Wearab...
Wearable motion sensors could save unborn babies
The thump, thump of a baby's heartbeat is a milestone in any pregnancy. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a technique that could allow expectant parents to hear their baby's heartbeat continuously at home with a non-i...