Full profile interview: SWOT
15 May 2020

Tekscan
Full profile interview
29 Apr 2020

Biome Makers
Biome Makers is a Smart Microbial Discovery start-up based in Sacramento, California. The company focuses on developing soil analytic tools for more sustainable and productive agriculture, using machine learning and DNA sequencing to characterise the soil microbiome and provide actionable insight to growers. In April 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Pedro Langa and Daniel Almonacid, CFO and CTO at Biome Makers.
Background
9 Apr 2020

Joyn Bio
Joyn Bio is a $100 million joint venture between chemicals giant Bayer and synthetic biology unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks. It is working to develop nitrogen fixing microbes that can be used to replace or supplement synthetic fertilisers.
Full profile interview
7 Apr 2020

Evogene
Evogene is an Israeli company that uses computation biology to design products in life sciences-based industries. In March 2020, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Rivka Neufeld, Investor Relations Manager at Evogene about the company's activities in the field of agriculture.
Full profile interview
12 Mar 2020

Clariant
IDTechEx visited Clariant in Höchst near Frankfurt to learn more about their silver nanoparticle activity. We talked with Carsten Schauer in this visit.
Update interview
28 Jan 2020

Toyoda Gosei
IDTechEx interviewed Takehiko Kanzaki, Project Manager in the e-Rubber Division at Toyoda Gosei.
Update interview
24 Jan 2020

Quantum Materials Corporation
Formed in January 2007, a Nevada corporation under the name "Hague Corporation" went public in 2008 (symbol QTMM) as part of an agreement to secure a first round of funding from investors.
15 Jan 2020

Weed and Litter Killer Robots
A weeding robot for autonomous farming and a robot that liberates the beaches from litter. Those are two innovations brought by the Dutch delegation from Techleap.
Full profile interview
10 Dec 2019

Xarvio, a BASF Digital Farming brand
Xarvio is a software platform for digital agriculture owned by global chemicals company BASF. Xarvio tools help improve decision making on farms by letting users monitor and manage their fields, as well as identify weeds and pests during field inspections. In December 2019, IDTechEx Analyst spoke with Louis Wells, Solutions and Services manager at BASF, about the Xarvio platform.
Update interview
25 Nov 2019

Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a major US company that specialises in motion and control technologies. At the IDTechEx Show 2019 in Santa Clara, Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Dr Alexander York, Senior Principal Engineer at Parker Hannifin about the company's electroactive polymer technology.
Background
8 Oct 2019

Klean Industries
Klean Industries uses pyrolysis to output carbon black and refined fuels from PP, PS and PE. Their process can handle high volumes of PVC and PET waste alongside the ideal polymer feedstock from post-consumer and post-industrial sources.
5 Nov 2018

World's first robot package delivery launched publicly
The world's first commercial rollout of autonomous package delivery on the ground, with hundreds of robots from Starship Technologies delivering packages straight to consumers' front doors.
20 Aug 2018

The graphene community gathers in California
The graphene community will gather in California on November 14 & 15 to attend the largest business-focused conference and exhibition on Graphene and 2D Materials which takes place in Santa Clara.
17 Jul 2018

Shifting power in diabetes management: products behind the progress
Diabetes is unrivaled amongst modern health issues. The World Health Organisation reports that there are 422 million adults living with diabetes in 2017, and the number is expected to rise to 640 million by 2040.
7 Jun 2018

Fertility tracking sensor bracelet closes $30M series B funding
Ava announced it has raised $30 million in a strategic Series B funding round. The majority of Ava's new financing came from existing investors, with prominent European VC firm btov and SVC Ltd., an investment vehicle of Credit Suisse, also joining the round.
Background
26 Jan 2018

Beflex
Beflex have developed a hardware platform and algorithms to do motion tracking based on sensors in headphones. IDTechEx spoke to Dae In Park, Co-founder and CMO at their booth in Eureka Park at CES 2018.
External press release
14 Feb 2017

Image sensor, electrically controllable near-infrared light sensitive
Panasonic Corporation has announced that it has developed a new technology, electrical control of the near infrared (NIR) light sensitivity of the same pixel in an organic CMOS image sensor.
6 Dec 2016

Robot helps people live, work and shop
At 1.7 metres tall and weighing close to 100 kilograms, Chip has a sophisticated mix of cameras, lasers, ultrasounds, microphones and speakers which allow it to recognise faces, converse with people and answer questions, and grasp and move objects around independently.
23 Nov 2016

IDTechEx Show! Sees Substantial Growth
Record growth and positive feedback from attendees at America's largest event on emerging technologies.