7 Sep 2020
Flexible Micro LEDs May Reshape Future of Wearable Technology
Researchers have developed a method to create micro LEDs that can be folded, twisted, cut and stuck to different surfaces.
7 Sep 2020
Deep Learning Framework to Map Brain Disorders
Researchers are working to harness deep learning and artificial intelligence to learn more about how mental illness and other disorders affect the brain.
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6 Sep 2020
Leading Edge Associates
Leading Edge Associates have developed a patented method of cooling and heating batteries in electric vehicles with the combination of a vapour chamber and a thermoelectric device.
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5 Sep 2020
Forte Projects LLC
Forte is partnered with Best Circuits and VMG to manufacture an electric motor pump relevant for battery cooling in heavy-duty electric vehicles.
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4 Sep 2020
VIDA Diagnostics
The diagnosis of obstructive airway disorders is challenging for radiologists due to the complexity of accurately interpreting lung CT scans.
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4 Sep 2020
Lux Semiconductors
Lux Semiconductors are an early stage company that have developed a patent pending system-on-foil platform that enables flexible silicon ICs to be directly produced on flexible substrates.
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4 Sep 2020
Flisom
Flisom describes its flexible solar panels as customizable currently, meaning made to customer formats in their factory, developed in the Empa Photovoltaics Laboratory.
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4 Sep 2020
Hanon Systems
Hanon Systems are a global tier-1 automotive parts supplier focussed on thermal management. The growing electric vehicle market presents new opportunities for Hanon.
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4 Sep 2020
BotFactory
BotFactory produce desktop size equipment for PCB prototyping and additive manufacturing of circuits. Their equipment includes printing of conductive and dielectric inks and adhesives, thermal and UV curing, and pick-and-place capability.
4 Sep 2020
Army Robo Teammate can Detect, Share 3D Changes in Real Time
Something is different, and you can't quite put your finger on it. But your robot can. Even small changes in your surroundings could indicate danger. Imagine a robot could detect those changes, and a warning could immediately alert you through a display in your eyeglasses. That is what U.S. Army scientists are developing with sensors, robots, real-time change detection and augmented reality wearables.
4 Sep 2020
Personalised Bioelectrical Treatment Using DNA Sequencing
In the first partnership of its kind, two healthtech startups have announced a collaboration to bring together the science behind bioelectronics and DNA data sequencing to personalise the recovery processes that occur post-workout, injury, and illness.
4 Sep 2020
Largest Solar Portfolio Under Construction in Maine
Once built, the projects are expected to generate over 100 megawatts of power, enough to supply approximately 19,000 Maine homes with solar energy. Representing over $130 million of capital investment, this project is currently the largest solar portfolio under construction in Maine, and is among the largest in the Northeast region.
4 Sep 2020
Automated Vehicle Technology Makes Parking Easier
Many people enjoy driving... until it's time to park. So why not leave the task to the vehicle? Ford Motor Company, Bedrock and Bosch are launching a demonstration project with connected Ford Escape test vehicles that can drive and park themselves inside Bedrock's Assembly Garage in Detroit using Bosch smart infrastructure.
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3 Sep 2020
Flexbright
Flexbright have launched a new application of their flexible lighting called Lumenasafe, which provides antimicrobial light. This is initially targeted at food display counters.
3 Sep 2020
Market for EV Powertrain Materials to Reach $47bn by 2030
Traction batteries and motors in electric vehicles (EVs) are very different to the powertrain components of the internal-combustion engine vehicles they replace.
3 Sep 2020
China's National Sword Policy Could Spur on Global Recycling
In 2018, China enacted its "National Sword" policy, effectively banning the import of most waste plastics and materials heading for the nation's recycling processors in an attempt to stop the wave of soiled and contaminated materials that were overwhelming the country's processing facilities and threatening it with a major environmental problem.
3 Sep 2020
Innovative Companies Changing the Face of Vertical Farming
Vertical farming, the practice of growing crops indoors under tightly controlled conditions, is continuing to expand rapidly.
3 Sep 2020
Versatile New Material Family Could Build Realistic Prosthetics
Nature's blueprint for the human limb is a carefully layered structure with stiff bone wrapped in layers of different soft tissue, like muscle and skin, all perfectly bound together. Achieving this kind of sophistication using synthetic materials to build biologically inspired robotic parts or multicomponent, complex machines has been an engineering challenge.
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2 Sep 2020
Amber Molecular
Amber Molecular Inc. is an early stage Canadian company that is focusing on fluorescent materials for red and orange OLEDs. These are designed to be paired with TADF materials to increase the electrical efficiency, lower the manufacturing costs, and widen the color gamut, of OLED devices. The company's commercialization strategy applies their significant synthetic flexibility to value-added strategic partnerships with TADF companies and OLED manufacturers.
2 Sep 2020
Powering Robots with Biomorphic Batteries
A new rechargeable zinc battery can provide much more energy and integrate into the structure of a robot like biological fat reserves store energy in animals. This approach to increasing capacity will be particularly important as robots shrink to the microscale and below—scales at which current stand-alone batteries are too big and inefficient.