18 Nov 2019

Volkswagen Group to Invest €60B in Electric Mobility
The Volkswagen Group plans to spend nearly EUR 60 billion on the future areas of hybridization, electric mobility and digitalization in the next five years. This amounts to slightly more than 40 percent of the company's investments in property, plant and equipment and all research and development costs during the planning period.
18 Nov 2019

Transformative Electronics Systems to Broaden Wearable Applications
Imagine a handheld electronic gadget that can soften and deform when attached to our skin. This will be the future of electronics we all dreamed of.
18 Nov 2019

Test Date for Rocket with Largest 3D Printed Combustion Chamber
Launcher Inc has scheduled the first full-scale test of its E-2 rocket engine for mid-2020 after securing a $1.5M award from the U.S. Air Force and taking delivery of the world's largest 3D printed combustion chamber.
External press release
18 Nov 2019

Toyobo Will Exhibit Cutting Edge Technologies at IDTechEx Show!
The Toyobo Group will exhibit its products at IDTechEx Show! - one of the world's biggest state-of-the-art technology exhibitions - on November 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, California. Under the theme of "Exploring New Horizons with You," the Toyobo booth will give visitors first-hand experience of products and technologies that help make daily lives richer and more convenient.
Event summary
15 Nov 2019

Summary from NAUM 2019 - Nanomaterials in energy storage
NAUM (from Nano Augmented) is a conference on nanomaterials organised and run by OCSiAl. IDTechEx attended a session on the use of nanomaterials in energy storage applications, and visited the exhibition.
Background
15 Nov 2019

Strobe
Strobe are developing lidar modules. The company were acquired by Cruise Automation (USA) in 2017.
15 Nov 2019

India Poised to Become a Major Player in the EV Arena
IDTechEx Analysts review the future of Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles in India. Find out more at the upcoming Business & Technology Insight Forums On Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage, 3 - 4 December 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany, hosted by IDTechEx.
15 Nov 2019

Radars: Key Technology Trends Towards 4D Imaging Radars
These are exciting times for radar technology. Many changes are taking place. In this article, we outline some key trends from the recent IDTechEx report "Radars 2020-2030: Technologies, Future Trends, Forecasts".
Background
15 Nov 2019

SlamTec
SlamTec offer lidar modules. SlamTec were previously established as RoboPeak, a robotics R&D company founded in 2009.
Background
15 Nov 2019

Siminics
Siminics offer lidar modules.
Background
15 Nov 2019

Tanway
Tanway offer lidar modules. The company were established as a spin-out from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).
Full profile interview
15 Nov 2019

Geyser Batteries
Geyser Batteries Oy are a Finnish start-up developing an electrochemical energy storage system based on carbon electrodes and an aqueous, redox active electrolyte.
15 Nov 2019

AI-Guided Robotics for the Recycling Industry
AMP Robotics Corp has raised $16 million to further scale operations and develop new AI products that help improve the economics of recycling.
External press release
15 Nov 2019

FlexIC Foundry Enables Custom Flexible Integrated Circuit Design
PragmatIC has developed a unique, patented semiconductor device platform that provides the opportunity to invent entirely new applications for electronics: As well as being ultra-low cost, it is also ultra-thin and flexible, and can be easily combined with other thin film electronic components to create novel solutions.
15 Nov 2019

Formlabs Launches New Dental Business Unit
This one printer allows for a growing list of more than 10+ dental applications. Users can switch seamlessly between a library of resins with a no-hassle cartridge system. Each application is validated and tested by a team of dental experts to ensure quality and accuracy.
15 Nov 2019

Spray Painting Fiber Bandages Onto Wounds
With newly developed technology, medical personnel can manufacture a bandage with drug-delivery capabilities directly onto a wound.
15 Nov 2019

Renewables Firm Looks to Skyscraper Energy Storage
The technology is based on a simple principle: raising and lowering a heavy weight to store and release energy.
15 Nov 2019

AI Learns to Design
Big design problems require creative and exploratory decision making, a skill in which humans excel. When engineers use artificial intelligence, they have traditionally applied it to a problem within a defined set of rules rather than having it generally follow human strategies to create something new.
Youtube
14 Nov 2019

Auto Industry: Change, or Go Bust?
Meet the full value chain across these topics at this one event. Devised by IDTechEx analysts and designed to focus on the commercial market opportunities.
Full profile interview
14 Nov 2019

FitSkin
IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed FitSkin CEO Sergio Rattner on 6 November 2019. FitSkin is a startup developing a skin analysis add-on to smartphones.