TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

Seers Technology

Seers Technology offers a medical platform and skin patch for cardiac monitoring.

Manna Drone Delivery: Fully Autonomous Drone Delivery in Europe

Manna Drone Delivery was founded in 2018 in Dublin, Ireland. It has an office in San Francisco, USA. The company raised US$25 million in funding in 2021. Manna provides fully autonomous drone delivery services, focused on low-value but high-frequency categories, such as takeaway food, coffee, and groceries.

Boeing

Boeing are developing wireless connected sensors based on flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) for asset tracking/monitoring around their production sites. These will include Bluetooth Low Energy communication, along with temperature, humidity, and motion sensors.

Power Bloom

Power Bloom is an American company based in California and founded in 2017. It has developed a business plan to scale fit-for-purpose organic solar cells with technology development intended in the future following the acquisition of sufficient capital.

Biobeat Technologies

Biobeat Technologies provide wearable devices for vital sign monitoring.

International Space Station Tests Organisms, Materials in Space

Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the International Space Station are exposed to atomic oxygen and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere. Only the hardiest materials, equipment, and organisms can withstand this harsh environment, and scientists conducting research on the orbiting laboratory have identified some of them for a variety of potential uses.

Avicena

Avicena develops optical chip-to-chip interconnects that utilise microLED arrays. IDTechEx spoke to Chris Pfistner, VP of Sales & Marketing.

WiTricity

WiTricity is a wireless charging company spun-out from the physics department at MIT and has over 1200 patents in the field. It licenses its IP to auto OEMs and tier 1s looking to introduce wireless charging platforms as well as offering its own product. IDTechEx spoke to David Schatz, VP of Sales and Business Development at WiTricity, to understand its technology and business model.

Human-Machine Interfaces Work Underwater, Generate Their Own Power

Wearable human-machine interface devices can be used to control machines, computers, music players, and other systems. A challenge for conventional human-machine interfaces is the presence of sweat on human skin. Scientists now describe their development of a type of human-machine interface that is stretchable, inexpensive, and waterproof. The device is based on a soft magnetoelastic sensor array that converts mechanical pressure from the press of a finger into an electrical signal.

Baidu Granted China's First Permits for Commercial Driverless Taxis

Baidu Inc has secured the first permits in China to offer commercial fully driverless robotaxi services to the public on open roads. Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, is now authorized to collect fares for robotaxi rides - completely without human drivers in the car - in Chongqing and Wuhan, two of China's largest megacities.

HKBU Launches Turing AI Orchestra as Milestone in Human-AI Co-Creation

Hong Kong Baptist Universityhas announced the launch of the world's first "Turing AI Orchestra" today as the next milestone in its visionary plan to broaden the scope and explore potential opportunities in art co-creation by humans and artificial intelligence.

GenCell Energy Collaborates with Milani S.p.A.

GenCell Energy is entering a market cooperation with Milani S.p.A.. The partners have joined forces to maximize market penetration of GenCell's zero-emission hydrogen-to-power and ammonia-to-power alkaline fuel cell technologies to power critical applications in C&I buildings throughout Italy and across Europe.

3D Printed Metal Parts Go Hypersonic—at Zero Miles Per Hour

"Supersonics" denotes aircraft that break the sound barrier at Mach 1 and extends to around Mach 5, which is five times the speed of sound and more than 3,500 mph at sea level. But very weird stuff starts happening as that upper speed is reached—you enter the hypersonics environment. Exploring that unusual environment turns out to be a perfect proving ground for metal 3D printing, as researchers are learning.

Traction Inverter with Gallium Nitride Chip Technology a Success

hofer powertrain opts for the most future-proof chip technologies and develops new multilevel power electronics with VisIC Technologies' Gallium Nitride chip technology, D3GaN (Direct Drive D-Mode), capable of meeting the needs of modern drivetrains and breaking efficiency barriers.

3D Systems Acquisition of dp polar GmbH

3D Systems has entered an agreement to acquire dp polar GmbH, the German-based designer and manufacturer of the industry's first additive manufacturing system designed for true high-speed mass production of customized components. Central to dp polar's patented continuous printing process is a large-scale, segmented, rotating print platform that eliminates the start/stop operations of virtually all additive manufacturing platforms.

Waymo: Autonomous Trucking

Waymo is one of the key players and leaders in both autonomous trucking and robotaxis. It has backing from Alphabet (parent company of Google). Waymo is running daily commercial trips (with a safety driver) for potential partners and expanding its fleet and operations ready for full autonomous missions.

Eaton: Residential Batteries

Eaton are a global power management company, providing products and services in electrical, aerospace, hydraulic, and vehicle sectors.

Event Summary: The Battery Show Europe 2022

IDTechEx attended The Battery Show, one of the biggest conferences and exhibits for companies working in anything battery related. The conference and exhibition was held live in Stuttgart, Germany from 28th-30th June 2022. This premium article provides an overview of some of the key thermal management materials being presented at the exhibition. This includes thermal interface materials, gap fillers, insulative foams, aerogels, and fire suppression technologies.

Mercedes Hypercar with Formula 1 Technology Goes Into Production

Only 275 units will be built in total, and job#1 of the exclusive production of the Mercedes‑AMG ONE hypercar has now begun. The first customer vehicles will be delivered in the second half of 2022. The Formula 1 based hybrid powertrain with a 1.6-litre V6 turbo engine and four electric motors is being built by the motorsport experts at Mercedes‑AMG High Performance Powertrains in Brixworth (England), who are also responsible for developing and producing the Power Units for the Mercedes‑AMG Petronas F1 racing cars.

Graphene Synapses Advance Brain-Like Computers

Computers that think more like human brains are inching closer to mainstream adoption. But many unanswered questions remain. Among the most pressing, what types of materials can serve as the best building blocks to unlock the potential of this new style of computing.