TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

Earthsense

They essentially are a spin out from the University of Illinois. They have $1M seed funding and 24 staff (6 employees and the rest part-time or students to drive down burn rate). They have working prototypes.

Farmwise

FarmWise is based in San Francisco and has raised $20M (there are 55 people now. Established in 2017). It seeks to offer to robotics together with AI-based services. Its tech roadmap is to go from autonomous weeding to plant-level farming data to autonomous farming.

Guss Automation LLC

Prior to this they had a history of fabrication as 'they always built their own sprayers for tractor pulled sprayers'. They claim that they always had more 'innovations for sprayers in house than the market had'.

Small Robot Company

Small Robot Company was established in 2017 in the UK. They have raised £2.5M so far and have 18 people. They wanted to enable the rise of small agricultural robots.

Blue River Technology

Blue River Technology is one of the best funded automated agricultural robotic companies. It has raised $30.35 in two rounds of Series A and B from 2012 to 2015. Its investors include Khosla Ventures, Syngenta Ventures and Monsanto Growth Ventures which are the venture arms of Syngenta and Monsanto, respectively. It was acquired by John Deere for $305M in 2017.

Schrödinger

Schrödinger provides physics-based computer modelling, machine learning approaches, and comprehensive informatics to accelerate life science and materials science R&D. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Mathew Halls (Vice President, Materials Science) about their work in materials informatics.

House Built Using 3D Printer and Robot

By implementing high precision 3D scanning and robotic based fabrication technology, Emerald-Ash-Borer-infested "waste wood" is transformed into an abundantly available, affordable, and sustainable building material.

Brain Signal Measurement Using Printed Tattoo Electrodes

Researchers have developed ultra-light tattoo electrodes that are hardly noticeable on the skin and make long-term measurements of brain activity cheaper and easier.

Webinar: New Materials Make Supercapacitors Better than Batteries

There is a huge amount of new research on supercapacitors and their variants and particularly on their materials, because these control their performance and cost more than anything. This webinar shares some of the research from the new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor Materials and Formats 2020-2040".

Zero Carbon Ambition to Help Shropshire's Climate Emergency

Helping Shropshire tackle its climate emergency and reduce the county's carbon footprint is one of the central objectives of the proposed J3 development north of the M54, with plans revealed for £40 million worth of investment in making the new community net zero carbon once completed.

Elementum 3D Achieves ISO 9001 Certification

Elementum 3D announced that it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management.

Neotech-AMT

Neotech-AMT makes equipment for 3D printing of electronics. This primarily involves printing circuits, interconnects and mounting components onto the surface of existing 3D objects, but can also involve 'fully additive' manufacturing, in which the entire object is 3D printed with electronic functionality incorporated into the structure.

Ubiquitous Displays Enabled by Micro-LEDs

MicroLED, believed by many as the next generation display technology, has been pursued by players from LED, display, OEM, materials and so on.

Mustang Mach-E Charge Time Improved by 30 Percent

The all-new Mustang Mach-E can add an estimated average of 61 miles of range in approximately 10 minutes at an Electrify America DC fast charging station with the extended-range battery and rear-wheel drive - an improvement of approximately 14 miles or 30 percent versus previous estimates.

AI to Detect Tell-Tale Coronavirus Sounds in our Speech

A recording of a cough, the noise of a person's breathing or even the sound of their voice could be used to help diagnose patients with Covid-19 in the future.

Wearable Guarantees Privacy by Measuring Distance, not Storing Data

A wearable that supports companies in remaining active or safely restarting in-person activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The wearable warns employees through an audible or haptic alarm, when they are violating the social distancing guidelines while approaching each other.

Free Webinar 21 May: The Landscape for EV Charging

Global plug-in electric vehicle (EV) population reached 7.5 million units (including light commercial vehicles) by the end of 2019. Although plug-in EV is only around 2% of global sales today, they are positioned to take the lead of road transportation in the coming decade.

Ynvisible Announces Closing of $1.5M Non-brokered Private Placement

Ynvisible Interactive Inc will be closing, subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange, a non-brokered private placement of 7,500,000 common shares of the Company at $0.20 per Share to raise gross proceeds of $1,500,000.

Tekscan

Tekscan manufactures flexible pressure sensors, based on force sensitive resistors. Medical applications are a particular focus.

Schacman

Schacman, which is known as Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group in China is a truck and bus manufacturer located in Shanxi province of China.