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Collaboration to Enable Innovative and Safe Energy Storage Solution

Murata Electronics announced its collaboration with Yotta Energy to enable the development of a modular, solar energy storage solution that utilizes Murata's FORTELION battery cells. The Murata Electronics and Yotta Energy collaboration brings Yotta's panel-level energy storage one step closer to commercialization.

New Feature for Pepper: Mask Wearing Detection

As the whole world faces an unprecedented health crisis, SoftBank Robotics wants to help fight against the spread of the coronavirus.

NZ Launches World-First Long Range Wireless Power Transmission

Kiwi start-up EMROD has developed the world's first long-range, high-power, wireless power transmission as an alternative to existing copper line technology.

Terecircuits

Terecirucits has developed a photo-polymer mass transfer process, which can pickup and selectively place small SMD components such as micro-LEDs. IDTechEx spoke to Wayne Rickard from Terecircuits at SID Display Week 2020.

Kyulux

Kyulux is a Japanese company that has developed a new light emission technology and associated materials for OLED displays. Called Hyperfluorescence™, their approach promises increased color purity and more efficient emission without the need for iridium containing phosphorescent materials.

Scientists Knock out Squid Gene for the First Time

A team has achieved the first gene knockout in a cephalopod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii—an exceptionally important research organism in biology for nearly a century. The team used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to knock out a pigmentation gene in squid embryos, which eliminated pigmentation in the eye and in skin cells (chromatophores) with high efficiency.

Origami Microbots: Cutting Edge Advance in Tiny Machines

Origami principles can unlock the potential of the smallest robots, enhancing speed, agility and control in machines no more than a centimeter in size.

For Solar Boom, Scrap silicon for This Promising Mineral

When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, say farewell to silicon and hello to perovskite.

Blackstone Passes Crucial Milestones for Printed Next Gen Batteries

The battery factories being built today have a weakness - their battery cell production lines only produce one battery cell form factor. These assembly systems are very special and expensive. The manufacturing process of the electrodes is energy-intensive and dangerous solvents are used.

Jaguar Land Rover Develops Contactless Touchscreen to Fight Bacteria

New contactless touchscreen technology developed by Jaguar Land Rover and the University of Cambridge will help keep drivers' eyes on the road and reduce the spread of bacteria and virusesin a post COVID-19 world.

Flexbright

Flexbright are a Finnish company that manufacture flexible lighting sheets with multiple, individually addressable LEDs mounted onto flexible substrates. The lighting sheets are manufactured using a roll-to-roll (R2R) process and targeted at applications including destination displays in public transport and architectural feature lighting.

TouchPoint Science

TouchPoint Science is a startup developing film-based antimicrobial products to help people feel more comfortable getting back to work after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Agricultural Robots and Drones: Company and Product Readiness Map

It is often imagined that agriculture is alien to new technologies. This is far from reality. In fact, agriculture has always been a pioneer in the adoption of new technologies, embracing motor/power, modified seed, and agrochemical technologies over many decades to boost productivity.

Social Energy to work with UK Power Networks on Smart Grid

Social Energy has launched a project to support UK Power Networks' development of the smart grid in London, the South East and East of England.

Scantinel

IDTechEx Analyst Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh interviews Scantinel Business Development Manager Norbert Recke

Optellum

Optellum was founded in 2016 in the UK. It has raised $1.3M of funding and has 25 employees as of Q2 2020.

Google

Since 2018, Google has been collaborating with DeepMind, Cancer Research UK, Imperial College, Northwestern University and Royal Surrey County Hospital to explore whether AI could improve the detection of breast cancer.

CureMetrix

CureMetrix's product, cmAssist, is a computer-aided detection (CAD) software that utilises image recognition AI to help radiologists identify regions of interest on mammograms.

Gamma Alloys

Gamma Alloys are producers of metal matrix composites (MMC); they have recently pivoted to focus their attention on additive manufacturing. IDTechEx caught up with Mark Sommer (CEO).

Hyundai Kia Automotive Group

The Hyundai Kia Automotive Group refers to the group of affiliated companies interconnected by complex shareholding arrangements, with Hyundai Motor Company regarded as the de facto representative of the group.