Full profile interview
22 Sep 2020

Arieca
Arieca create thermal materials based on a liquid metal embedded elastomer formulation with potential for specific applications including the semiconductor market.
Background
16 Sep 2020

SpaceX
Founded 6 May 2002 by Elon Musk of Tesla fame, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., otherwise known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Full profile interview
24 Aug 2020

Goldshield Technologies
Goldshield Technologies have developed and commercialized a water-based Si-QAC antimicrobial coating. IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Goldshield Technologies management team including CEO Tom Higgins on 14 Aug 2020.
21 Aug 2020

NASA Is Developing an All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly
NASA is developing an electrically powered X-57 plane. Just as electric cars are becoming more and more commonplace on our roads each day, aerospace engineers are seeking to make electric air transportation a reality.
External press release
18 Aug 2020

Two-Component Room Temperature Curing Thermally Conductive Adhesive
Creative Materials introduces 813-76, a two-component room temperature curing thermally conductive and electrically insulating adhesive. This product is designed for assembling heat sensitive components on printed circuit boards, and it develops strong adhesive bonds and excellent thermal transfer.
Full profile interview
24 Jun 2020

FormAlloy
FormAlloy use a blown-powder DED process for metal additive manufacturing. IDTechEx spoke with Kevin Luo (Business Development Manager).
Full profile interview: SWOT
10 Jun 2020

nScrypt
25 May 2020

Marshaling AI in the Fight Against Covid-19
Artificial intelligence could play a decisive role in stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. To give the technology a push, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding 10 projects at MIT aimed at advancing AI's transformative potential for society.
28 Apr 2020

Sensors Woven into Clothing to Monitor Vital Signs
Researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate.
23 Apr 2020

The Vanadium Flow Batteries as Energy Storage Devices
While Li-ion batteries have totally conquered the electric-vehicle industry, and currently dominating the energy storage sector as well, the redox flow batteries are silently (but not too much) taking their share of the stationary energy storage market.
23 Apr 2020

In East Africa, a Race to Outsmart Locusts with Drones and Data
While the eyes of the world are on the novel coronavirus, East Africa continues to struggle with another crisis of biblical proportions: growing swarms of ravenous locusts. Both crises are extraordinary in scale, and both foes multiply so quickly that governments are struggling to contain them.
20 Apr 2020

Mars Helicopter Attached to NASA's Perseverance Rover
With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 13 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembly, test and launch operations team completed important milestones, fueling the descent stage — also known as the sky crane — and attaching the Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft in history to attempt power-controlled flight on another planet.
5 Mar 2020

Sweat Sensor Detects Stress Levels; May Find Use in Space Exploration
Researchers have produced a wireless sweat sensor that can accurately detect levels of cortisol, a natural compound that is commonly thought of as the body's stress hormone.
27 Feb 2020

Very Slow is Better: Mesh Networks, IOT to Drones
In engineering and science, the race for faster is well known. It spans from 5G streaming videos in seconds to Hyperloop and space tourism. However, if we are to have the envisaged tens of billions of Internet of Things nodes deployed, they must cost under two cents each and work on a whisper of electricity. No. We must go even further in redefining the problem.
Full profile interview
24 Feb 2020

KULR Technology
KULR have extensive experience in battery safety for aerospace and defence applications, more recently they have been taking this knowledge and aplying it to the electric vehicle market.
19 Feb 2020

Become the Next IDTechEx Launchpad Start-up Success Story!
Ahead of the IDTechEx Show! Berlin, 13-14 May 2020, IDTechEx looks back at the stories of some companies propelled to success by the IDTechEx Launchpad initiative.
Full profile interview
7 Feb 2020

American Semiconductor Inc
American Semiconductor is a company based in Idaho, USA that has developed a process for thinning silicon chips and packaging them within a polymer. This enables flexible, durable silicon ICs, offering processing capability with a flexible form factor.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020

Airspeq
At CES 2020 IDTechEx met with Tania Sole from Airspeq. The company has developed a MEMS based sensor to detect airborne particulate matter. The technology is based on patent pending MEMS thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology.
22 Jan 2020

Underwater Robot Takes First Known Automated Ocean Sample
A hybrid remotely operated vehicle took the first known automated sample performed by a robotic arm in the ocean.