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Rockefeller Foundation USD1 Billion to Green Recovery from Pandemic

The Rockefeller Foundation will commit USD1 billion over the next three years to catalyze a more inclusive, green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The Foundation will focus on two key areas: catalyzing billions of dollars in private and concessional investments to scale distributed renewable energy across developing countries; and ensuring more equitable access to Covid-19 tests and vaccines, science-based tools, and data to fight the pandemic, while strengthening public health systems to prevent future outbreaks.

Wearable Sensor to Help ALS Patients Communicate

People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis suffer from a gradual decline in their ability to control their muscles. As a result, they often lose the ability to speak, making it difficult to communicate with others.

Machine Learning Helps Hunt for COVID-19 Therapies

Researchers were not preparing machine learning techniques for a global health crisis. Still, when one broke out, they were ready to help.

Daimler Trucks & Waymo: Development of Autonomous Sae Level 4 Trucks

Daimler Trucks and Waymo partner on the development of autonomous SAE Level 4 trucks. Their initial effort will combine Waymo's industry-leading automated driver technology with a unique version of Daimler's Freightliner Cascadia, to enable autonomous driving.

FarmVisionAI™ Releases Mobile App for Powerful In-field AI

FarmVisionAI™ Releases Mobile App for Powerful In-field Artificial Intelligence - Illumitex adds a mobile app for real-time engagement between horticultural AI and indoor growers.

Vestas Wins Another Order in Vietnam for a 50 MW Wind Project

Vestas has secured a 50 MW order in Vietnam with local developer, Ia Bang Wind Power Joint Stock Company, owned by the Vietnam-based renewable power producer Gia Lai Electricity Joint Stock Company (GEC).

Stratio Inc

Stratio has developed an innovative approach to reducing the cost of manufacturing short-wave infra-red image sensors by using germanium rather than indium gallium arsenide as the photo-sensitive material. It has also developed a range of products that demonstrate their key value proposition of affordable, portable, and versatile optical measuring devices.

After COVID-19, What Does the Future Hold for 3D Printing?

Without doubt, the impact of COVID-19 is being felt at a pivotal point in the evolution of 3D printing.

Akasol

Akasol is an energy storage startup emerging as the leading supplier for heavy-duty battery packs. In an interview, IDTechEx learned of the company's interesting answer to emerging solid-state technologies.

Arzeda

Arzeda designs proteins that don't occur naturally. It can model peptides, enzymes, antibodies and any other kind of protein.

Carbonfree Chemicals

Carbonfree Chemicals is a company developing technologies for capturing and utilizing carbon dioxide emissions, aiming to simultaneously fight climate change and create useful products. In October 2020, IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Martin Keighley, CEO of Carbonfree Chemicals.

Qurv

Qurv is a Spanish early stage company developing graphene/quantum dot based short wave infra red (SWIR) image sensors. These will include data processing software to provide a 'plug-and-play' solution.

IniVation

iniVation offer event-based vision sensors and the associated software. These sensors enable ultra-low response latency, low data rates, high dynamic range, and low power consumption by having pixels asynchronously report whenever they experience a change in light intensity.

Flexible Self-Charging Battery Under Development

Strategic Elements Ltd subsidiary Australian Advanced Materials has agreed to develop a self-charging battery technology through its collaboration with the University of New South Wales and CSIRO. The Battery cells create electricity from humidity in the air or skin surface to self-charge themselves within minutes.

Autonomous Boats Could be Your Next Ride

The feverish race to produce the shiniest, safest, speediest self-driving car has spilled over into our wheelchairs, scooters, and even golf carts. Recently, there's been movement from land to sea, as marine autonomy stands to change the canals of our cities, with the potential to deliver goods and services and collect waste across our waterways.

Eco Wave Power Develops Wave Energy Power Plant Software

Eco Wave Power has developed a new software for real-time production verification. In addition to guaranteeing production efficiency, it also allows for the timely maintenance of the wave energy power plants.

Novel Sensor System for on the go Gait Analysis

Gait analysis is an important clinical measurement used for medical diagnosis of sports injuries, neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Cerebral Palsy, and for assessing frailty and fall risk of the elderly.

Treating Tinnitus with Electrical Stimulation

In the largest clinical trial of its kind, researchers show that combining sound and electrical stimulation of the tongue can significantly reduce tinnitus, commonly described as "ringing in the ears." They also found that therapeutic effects can be sustained for up to 12 months post-treatment.

3D Printing the First Ever Biomimetic Tongue Surface

Scientists have created synthetic soft surfaces with tongue-like textures for the first time using 3D printing - opening new possibilities for testing oral processing properties of food, nutritional technologies, pharmaceutics and dry mouth therapies.

Mitie Crowned 'Green Fleet of the Year'

Mitie was named the winner in recognition of its ambitious and business-leading electric vehicle rollout and commitment to switch its entire fleet to zero emission by 2025.