10 Feb 2017

Rehab robotics to return mobility to ageing population
Researchers predict that in the next five years, older people and others with mobility problems will be able to rent robotic exoskeletons that make dream vacations — as well as mundane tasks — a possibility.
31 Jan 2017

Drones and starlings
As I sat in the sunshine in Poole Harbour UK finishing my new IDTechEx report, "Electric UAV Drones: Autonomous, Energy Independent 2017-2027", I was mentioning software that endows drones with curiosity and with the ability to swarm as demonstrated with multiple drones dropped from US aircraft recently.
18 Jan 2017

Project to supply solar power to UK trains
Imperial College London and 10:10 have announced the Renewable Traction Power project to investigate using track-side solar panels to power trains.
23 Dec 2016

Solved: mystery holding back development of next-gen solar cells
Scientists have identified an unexpected cause of poor performance in a new class of flexible and cheap solar cells, bringing them closer to market.
5 Dec 2016

Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE 2017)
A key event for the large-area electronics community, bringing industry and academia together and providing valuable opportunities to share the latest research results and discuss new projects and collaborations.
Full profile interview: SWOT
31 Oct 2016

Plume Labs
4 Oct 2016

Robot specifically designed to support research
At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a five-year-old child. It can crawl on all fours, walk and sit up to manipulate objects.
16 Jun 2016

Extend life and improved performance of fuel cell electrodes
Researchers have developed a practical and physically-based way of treating the surface of materials called perovskite oxides, to make them more durable and improve their performance. These materials are promising candidates to serve as electrodes in energy-conversion devices such as fuel cells and electrolyzers.
25 Mar 2016

£6.8 million grant to develop next-generation lithium batteries
A new research consortium involving Professor Saiful Islam from the University of Bath's Department of Chemistry has been awarded £6.8 million by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council to explore and develop next-generation lithium batteries.
7 Mar 2016

Future Powertrain Conference 2016 National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull
The third Future Powertrain conference was a great event with about 400 delegates and a total of 35 table exhibitors. The summary of the presentations given during the FPC2016 are discussed here.
Event summary
29 Feb 2016

Highlights of Future Powertrain Conference UK 24-25 Feb
IDTechEx attended the Future Powertrain Conference which took place in Soilhull, UK on 24-25 February.
12 Feb 2016

Wearable sleeve to aid stroke recovery
Scientists are to develop and trial a new wearable technology to help people who have had a stroke recover use of their arm and hand.
11 Feb 2016

Energy harvesting change of emphasis to be explored in Berlin
The IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, 27-28 April has over 40 companies exhibiting that are involved in energy harvesting from the materials to the chips.
Event summary
8 Feb 2016

Event report: Innovations in Large Area Electronics
IDTechEx attended the second innoLAE conference, which took place on the 1st and 2nd of February 2016 in Cambridge (UK). It was organised by the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics.
1 Feb 2016

Wearable help for Parkinson's tremors
A team of engineers, designers and medics are hoping their tremor-reducing glove will vastly improve the lives of millions of people living with Parkinson's disease.
20 Nov 2015

New 3D printing tech empowers surgeons at a nano scale
A 3D printer that can produce detailed models narrower than a human hair is helping experts in medical robotics.
30 Oct 2015

New biomimetic structural electronics
Biomimetics - usefully copying nature - is alive and well.
Full profile interview
15 Oct 2015

APDM
APDM develop and sell high end wearable sensor for high performance motion tracking. Their packages are build around a sensor called the opal, which includes inertial measurement unit components in a small rigid package. These sensors, usually used several at a time, feed into their software platforms which enable high level motion analysis of subjects, used in areas such as research, medical diagnosis and elite sports analysis.
External press release
14 Oct 2015

FlexEnable spearheads another breakthrough in flexible electronics
FlexEnable has successfully validated a new class of high performance organic semiconductors in a million pound project funded by Innovate UK.