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Agriculture: leader in autonomous mobility?

Robots are becoming uncaged, mobile, collaborative and increasingly intelligent and dexterous, moving beyond their traditional strongholds to bring automation to previously inaccessible tasks.

The many downsides of FRPs leaves plenty of room for innovation

Nearly all the advocates of fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) shy away from talking about the many elephants in the room and there are enough of them that is beyond crowded.

Recipe for safer batteries: just add diamonds

Researchers have developed a recipe that can turn electrolyte solution — a key component of most batteries — into a safeguard against the chemical process that leads to battery-related disasters.

Multi-material printed systems poised to shape consumer products

Product developers can print integrated electronics onto plastic, ceramic and metallic structures at extremely fine resolutions.

Porsche trials full electric 40 tonners for logistics

The companies that together have sunk billions into fuel cell vehicles used to argue that the heavy things like buses and trucks could only be electrified with fuel cell. However, China is soon to celebrate 200,000 large pure electric buses in regular use and volume production of fuel cell buses has yet to begin.

Robot to undertake inspection of gas pipelines

A project being led by National Grid will allow a robot to undertake the inspection of gas pipelines at high pressure has been awarded 5.7 million pounds.

Thermoelectrics: Doors Close; Doors Open

This article covers the challenges companies involved in thermoelectric energy harvesting have faced and possible areas of development in the future.

Perovskite fundraising

Greatcell Solar Limited is pleased to advise that it has raised $5.3 million from shareholders.

Autonomous concept car smart vision EQ fortwo

The smart vision EQ fortwo autonomous concept vehicle picks up its passengers directly from their chosen location.

New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct

Engineers have designed an autonomous robot with "socially aware navigation," that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing general codes of pedestrian conduct.

Haptic telecommunication wearable

The Hug Shirt is not meant to replace human contact. It also has some very interesting applications in the medical field with the elderly and children.

Insect eyes inspire perovskite design

Packing tiny solar cells together, like micro-lenses in the compound eye of an insect, could pave the way to a new generation of advanced photovoltaics.

3D printing in full colour

The da Vinci Color is XYZprinting's first FDM desktop 3D printer with true color technology achieved through the combination of inkjet and 3D printing technology.

Better way to create organic bioelectronics

With increasing scientific and medical interest in communication with the nervous system, demand is growing for biomedical devices that can better record and stimulate the nervous system, as well as deliver drugs and biomolecules in precise dosages.

Key enabling technologies for Energy Independent Vehicles Land, Water,

IDTechEx is staging the world's first conference on Energy Independent Electric Vehicles 27-28 September at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, where the most advanced solar racing cars and boats are made and the necessary new forms of wind, solar and elastomer generator energy harvesting are developed.

More solar power thanks to titanium

Earth-abundant, cheap metals are promising photocatalytic electrode materials in artificial photosynthesis.

Royal Mail trialling fully electric commercial vehicles

Royal Mail are currently trialling fully electric commercial vehicles from their Mount Pleasant depot in central London.

Project connects brain science with electric cars

Technology developed to help neurosurgeons control electric currents during noninvasive brain stimulation could also lead to safer, more efficient batteries for electric cars and solar panels.

Machine-learning earthquake prediction in lab shows promise

By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails.

New soft robots really suck

Scientists have created the first functional robot powered entirely by vacuum: made up of soft building blocks, it moves by having air sucked out of them.