8 Apr 2021

Screening for Skin Disease on Your Laptop
In artificial intelligence, deep learning organizes algorithms into layers (the artificial neural network) that can make its own intelligent decisions. To speed up the learning process, the new network was trained using the parameters of MobileNetV2, a mobile vision application, pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset with 1.4M images.
Background
22 Mar 2021

Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation, headquartered in Santa Cruz, California are developing a tiltrotor electric vertical take-off and landing air taxi. They are one of the leading players in this emerging market and have attracted over $820 million in funding, with investors including Toyota, Uber and Baillie Gifford.
Update
28 Oct 2020

ZTE (5G)
ZTE engages in the design, development, production, distribution, and installation of telecommunications systems and equipment primarily in China.
Update
28 Oct 2020

Huawei (5G)
Huawei is currently the top company in infrastructure, followed by Nokia and Ericsson. They are also the leader in 5G technology.
Full profile interview
30 Sep 2020

Prophesee
Prophesee has developed hardware and associated software for event-based vision sensors that is based on how the human eye records and interprets visual inputs. The sensors facilitate machine vision by recording changes in the scene rather than recording the entire scene at regular intervals. Advantages include better low light response (<1 lux) and dynamic range (>143dB), reduced data generation (10-1000x less than conventional approaches) leading to lower transfer/processing requirements, and higher temporal resolution (microsecond time resolution, i.e. >10k images per second time resolution equivalent)
28 Sep 2020

Keolis Launches 5G Autonomous Electric Vehicle Trial
Keolis launched a new autonomous self-driving, electric minibus trial in Stockholm, Sweden, using 5G technology to remotely control and supervise the vehicle. This trial aims to explore the safe introduction of self-driving autonomous electric vehicles in complex urban areas with a view to optimising route planning and traffic.
External press release
16 Sep 2020

TT Electronics and iAbra Launch AI Driven COVID-19 Test
TT Electronics announced that it has been working with British start-up iAbra, and its partners including Intel to design, develop and test the prototype Virolens system and to specify and design the manufacturing processes for its commercial launch.
29 Jun 2020

Navigation Algorithm for Deep Drone Acrobatics
A navigation algorithm enables drones to learn challenging acrobatic maneuvers. Autonomous quadcopters can be trained using simulations to increase their speed, agility and efficiency, which benefits conventional search and rescue operations.
Full profile interview
19 Jun 2020

Enovix
IDTechEx caught up with Enovix, a company looking to commercialise its 100% silicon anode Li-ion cells.
Background
17 Jun 2020

Almalence
Attendee of AWE Digital 2020
Topic overview
12 Jun 2020

mmWave electronics: towards AiP (antenna-in-package) technologies
Electronic packaging will play an important role in enabling higher frequency - e.g., mmWave - electronics. In particular, as the frequency goes up, the antenna spacing shrinks, the need to have large antenna arrays for gain as well as beam forming purposes increases; and the imperative to cut down transmission loss including by placing components closer together inside a package dramatically grows