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First large BIOPV project on African continent

Heliatek has implemented, with its partner Kandil Steel, its first Building integrated Organic Photovoltaic pilot project in Africa.

Elimination of electric vehicle systems

Following the trend to two or more traction motors per vehicle, the Technical University of Berlin with Infineon is merging their motor controllers and the on-board charger (OBC). Infineon now has a special chip to assist. At EVS29 in Montreal June 2016, Dr Martin Bruell of Continental AG, Germany, revealed progress on elimination of the OBC.

Explore the IDTechEx Launchpad Initiative

The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: 2d materials, 3d printing, energy harvesting, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, sensors, or wearable technology.

TankTwo Showcases String Batteries at the IDTechEx Show! In Berlin

Video interview with TankTwo at the IDTechEx Show! (27-28 April, 2016 | Berlin, Germany).

Tacterion Shows Stretchable Sensors For Wearables And Smart Fabrics

Video interview with Tacterion at the IDTechEx Show! (27-28 April, 2016 | Berlin, Germany).

China: booming delivery trucks: naughty battery tricks

At EVS29 here in Montreal Canada the six parallel conferences are world class even though the exhibition is modest.

Energy harvesting: off-grid microwatt to megawatt 2017-2027

The new IDTechEx report, Energy Harvesting: Off-grid Microwatt to Megawatt 2017-2027 tells a remarkable story of these twelve magnitudes of green electricity production.

Shadow Robotics

Shadow Robotics was established in 1999 although its core team had been working on emerging robotics and dexterous robotic hands since 1987. They seek to create a robotic arm as dexterous and as flexible as a human hand.

Bionic Robotics

IDTechEx recently interviewed Mr Ralf Teichmann, the general manager of Bionic Robotics, who make a light-weight, safe and collaborative robotic arm.

UAV Factory

UAV Factory are a Latvian company, employing 60 people (most in production) and has over 1m Euros in revenue. IDTechEx interviewed them at RoboBusiness in June 2016.

Tillet and Hague

Tillett and Hague Technologies (THT) are a small British outfit dedicated to providing perception-based automaton solutions to agricultural activities. Its technology has enabled the sales of more than 600 robotic agricultural machines.

ISORG Showcases Photodiodes at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin

Video interview with ISORG at the IDTechEx Show! (27-28 April, 2016 | Berlin, Germany).

Need hair? Press "print"

These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin. But some things have defied the technology, including hair, fur, and other dense arrays of extremely fine features, which require a huge amount of computational time and power to first design, then print.

Battery vehicle now viable for very long distances

At IDTechEx we believe that there is an excellent solution being proved for the long distance battery vehicle, starting with trucks.

Opening of EVS29 Montreal Canada

This event wanders the world, being largest when in China. After being in Los Angeles then Korea it is now taking place in Montreal Canada with a nominally 136 stand exhibition (actual count rather less) and an almost exclusive focus on land vehicles.

Toyota Motor Europe Discusses Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

Video interview with Toyota Motor Europe at the IDTechEx Show! (27-28 April, 2016 | Berlin, Germany).

Ultra thin solar panels could power wearable technology revolution

Scientists have made ultra-thin photovoltaics flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The bendy solar cells could power wearable electronics like fitness trackers and smart glasses.

Highly efficient bifacial solar cells with near 100% bifaciality

With a rear cell efficiency close to the efficiency measured from the front of the cell, imec's new achievement underscores the ability to strongly enhance the energy yield of photovoltaic modules made with this type of cell.

Electric vehicle market in Canada

The electric vehicle market in Canada is small, but growing. At the end of year 2015, there were close to 18,500 EVs registered in Canada representing less than 0.1% of all light-duty vehicles on the road. In total, there are now 21 different plug-in models of EVs available, made by 12 different manufacturers and this number is constantly increasing.

iniLabs

We recently interviewed Dr Kynan Eng, CEO of iniLabs which is a 7-year-old spin out from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. They have developed a novel CMOS-based photosensor technology.