20 Jan 2020

World's First Foldable PC
ThinkPad X1 Fold is the first fully functional PC with a folding OLED display. As it morphs through multiple modes, from a small footprint device into a fully flat 13.3-inch display, X1 Fold will deliver laptop efficiency with smartphone portability.
Topic overview
14 Jan 2020

Solid-state automotive lidar: commercializing photonic beam steering
What does it take to commercialize photonic beam steering?
Youtube interview
14 Jan 2020

Designer Integrates 3D Printing and Future Fabrics for Bespoke Fashion
Kitty Yeung is a physicist, artist, maker, fashion designer and musician based in Silicon Valley, California. She currently manages the Bay Area Microsoft Garage, a program that drives a culture of innovation at Microsoft.
Background
11 Dec 2019

IAM Robotics
IAM Robotics is a small company (18 person) based in the United States. It was borne out of a competition to use a robotic arm to pick a drill, mount the drill head and drill a hole. It currently develops a mobile picking robotic arm.
Background
8 Dec 2019

RoboCV
RoboCV is a Russian start-up focused on mobile robotics for the warehouse/logistics industry.
Update interview
22 Nov 2019

SensiML
SensiML produces AI software for IoT devices. Its software is designed to be usable in small chips within the devices themselves, reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent over a network. At the IDTechEx Show in Santa Clara, Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent interviewed SensiML.
30 Oct 2019

IoT Applications: Great Opportunities to Come
Internet of Things is considered the third revolution of the computer, after the first revolution of bringing computing to governments and big companies and the second one to the public via PC and smartphone.
22 Oct 2019

IoT Applications: Connecting the EDGE USA 2019
Nov 20-21 | Santa Clara, CA 10% Attendee Discount - Ends Friday, 1 November
18 Sep 2019

At Last a Smart Materials Event for Business Deals
The IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, California on November 20-21 has it all. There will be over 270 exhibitors engaging with 3,500 attendees; seven parallel conferences and even masterclasses on November 19 and 22, with matchmaking services and awards. Land the big order or at least come away "married" and famous!
16 Sep 2019

Facial recognition for the 2020 Olympic games
Intel announced that it is partnering with a broad array of partners to drive the future of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with groundbreaking technology.
Background
13 Sep 2019

SiLC
SiLC Technologies offer lidar modules and vision chips based on silicon photonics. IDTechEx interviewed Dr Mehdi Asghari in May 2019. Asghari is the President and CEO of SiLC.
Background
13 Sep 2019

Continental
Continental offer lidar modules, radar modules and cameras for ADAS.
11 Sep 2019

Agenda Announced for Printed Electronics USA 2019
The agenda has just been announced for the 16th annual Printed Electronics USA event taking place in Santa Clara, California, on November 20 & 21. This is the world's largest event on flexible, hybrid & printed electronics. Printed Electronics USA is part of the IDTechEx show, which brings together seven key disruptive technologies and their customers in one venue.
29 Aug 2019

The next step in robotic industrial inspection
Named ANYmal C, this robot is optimized for industrial inspection tasks where it can provide high availability, safety, and reliability for automated routine inspections with a wide range of sensors.
External press release
30 Jul 2019

New EEMBC benchmark targets machine learning inference on edge devices
EEMBC, an industry consortium that develops benchmarks for embedded hardware and software, announced the release of MLMark™, the first Machine Learning benchmark specifically designed with commercial applications in mind.
25 Jul 2019

Intel's AI chip delivers breakthrough results
Intel has announced that an 8 million-neuron neuromorphic system comprising 64 Loihi research chips — codenamed Pohoiki Beach — is now available to the broader research community. With Pohoiki Beach, researchers can experiment with Intel's brain-inspired research chip, Loihi, which applies the principles found in biological brains to computer architectures.
2 Jul 2019

New AI programming language goes beyond deep learning
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.
23 May 2019

Get ready for the 5G revolution
EXTENDED VERSION - Nations and industry are preparing for the opportunities 5G investment will bring, says Dr Luyun Jiang, IDTechEx technology analyst on 5G.
As featured in the 5G Report by Raconteur distributed in 'The Times'
22 Mar 2019

Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale
A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene - a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick - at up to eight inches (20cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices.