TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

Stratasys

Stratasys have developed printers specifically to print short carbon fibre in response to growing demand from customers.

BMW i3 Battery Electric Vehicle

With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world's leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services.

Personal digital devices identify mild cognitive impairment

Initial results from a feasibility study conducted by Eli Lilly and Company, Evidation Health and Apple Inc showed that an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and the Beddit sleep monitoring device, in combination with digital apps may be able to differentiate people with mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Imprint Energy expands access to safe, flexible batteries

Imprint Energy announced the expanded availability of its developer's kit for its ultrathin, safe, flexible, printed batteries.

Construction support vessel efficiency enhanced by hybrid propulsion

The technology group Wärtsilä is to provide hybrid propulsion capability for a new offshore wind construction support vessel. The 'Acta Centaurus', a DP2 walk-to-work construction support vessel owned by Netherlands-based Acta Marine, will thus gain fuel consumption and environmental benefits through being able to operate the vessel with less running engines at more optimised load.

AI improves efficiency and accuracy of digital breast tomosynthesis

Artificial intelligence helps improve the efficiency and accuracy of an advanced imaging technology used to screen for breast cancer, according to a new study.

Oryx

Oryx Vision were developing a lidar module. The start-up announced its business closure in August 2019.

iSchemaView

IDTechEx spoke to Dr Anil Singhal, Vice President of Worldwide Operations at iSchemaView. This company's technology, RAPID, is a stroke detection platform which delivers software tools for diagnosing and treating this condition.

MIP Diagnostics

IDTechEx spoke to Dr Adrian Kinkaid, CEO of MIP Diagnostics. The company generates custom-made nanoMIPs (nano Molecularly Imprinting Polymers), which recognise specific markers and are made to match any required target.

Withings

IDTechEx spoke to Matthieu Letombe, CEO of Withings. It is a health accessory company committed to developing the next generation of smart health solutions.

Catalia Health

IDTechEx spoke to Dr Cory Kidd, CEO of Catalia Health. The company developed Mabu, a 'Wellness coach' robot designed to improve chronic disease care management.

Dycotec

IDTechEx interviewed Ian Clark, Business Development Manager at Dycotec. Dycotec has grown rapidly from their foundation in 2015 to be a profitable one-stop-shop provider of materials for printed electronics.

Electric Vehicle Research at Advanced Materials Osaka July 2019

Here we give the abstracts relevant to electric vehicles from BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan July 2019. The organisers failed to provide slides but we have photographs of some of these if you are interested. The selected abstracts are divided into energy storage, wide bandgap semiconductors, energy harvesting and other.

An introduction to plant-based meat

Vegan meat substitutes are rapidly growing, with producers claiming they offer a cheap, environmentally-friendly product almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

Airport shuttle bus thin-film PV roof system

In November, Hanergy had signed a cooperation agreement with TAM-Europe Company, a subsidiary of China Hi-Tech Group Corporation to develop a new-energy shuttle bus.

Promising Future for Residential Energy Storage

Since 2013, the global residential energy storage market has been dominated by Germany, but the country may be dethroned soon as promising new residential energy storage markets gather momentum.

Ynvisible enters agreement to acquire Consensum Production AB

The Proposed Transaction is intended to position Ynvisible as a leading provider of electrochromic printed display solutions for high volume applications.

NHS to use AI to improve the health and lives of patients.

A new National Artificial Intelligence Lab will use the power of artificial intelligence to improve the health and lives of patients.

Drone doctor: Measuring whale health from above

When assessing a patient's health, one of the first things a doctor does is measure the patient's vital signs. But how do you measure vital signs when your patient is a huge, endangered paikea humpback whale? New University of Canterbury research suggests drones might be the solution.

Urban green habitat 3D-printed with multiple recycled filaments

Addressing some of the biggest environmental challenges such as plastic waste, overconsumption of energy and other resources, rapidly deteriorating biodiversity and urbanization, the installation is a groundbreaking prototype in urban architecture and an industry-first showcase in Additive Manufacturing of a scalable, city-developing circular economy.