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BioBots (now known as Allevi)

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Biobots CEO and Co-Founder Danny Cabrera on February 14, 2017 for a profile update. Please refer to the previous company profile for more information.

3Dynamic Systems

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed 3Dynamic Systems CEO Daniel Thomas on February 15, 2017. 3Dynamic Systems is investigating 3D bioprinting and 3D composite printing for medical applications.

New IDTechEx report reveals much larger drone opportunity

Just when many investors are running for the exit, having burnt their fingers with toy drones and the like, IDTechEx reveals a much bigger picture with considerable potential for the level-headed.

MC10

IDTechEx caught up with Roozbeh Ghaffari and Ben Schlatka, two of the co-founders at mc10, for an update on their business in the development, licensing and sales of stretchable electronic products, including skin patches.

Chirp

Chirp technology enables point-to-point communication through audible sounds and has found numerous use cases over the last 12 months. David Pugh spoke to Mike Smales, SVP of operations about this innovative communication system.

Webinar Tuesday 21 February - Conductive Inks: Trends to Watch in 2017

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 21 February 2017 titled Conductive Inks: Trends to Watch in 2017.

RFID Sensors: Filling a Real Need or Hoping for the Best?

RFID is booming - it now accounts for the largest number of silicon integrated circuits made of one particular type. But in addition to over 20% growth, there is much more to come. RFID is moving beyond wireless identification alone to wireless sensing of parameters such as temperature, humidity and much more.

Perpetual drones

Nothing lasts forever: things wear out. However, there is a huge pent up demand for "perpetual" autonomous drones for everything from security to surveying, meteorology and even power generation.

Are you a start-up company? Explore the IDTechEx Launchpad Initiative

The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: 3D printing, electric vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, sensors, or wearable technology.

Alan Harper Composites Ltd

Alan Harper Composites are a 6-person company developing reusable silicone vacuum bags. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Alan Harper (CEO and Founder).

Industrial electric vehicles: Rapid change, $350 billion market

IDTechEx finds that the construction, agriculture and mining part alone will be an $81 billion market in 2027 with considerable opportunities for consolidation of players and technological breakthroughs with major market disruption and creation.

Fuel cell on-road vehicles will never be mainstream

A prediction by analysts IDTechEx is turning out to be true.The window of opportunity is closing for fuel cell on-road vehicles to become mainstream.

RFID Sensors: Technology Types, Lessons Learnt and Prospects

In this premium article, analysts Xiaoxi He and Raghu Das describe IDTechEx's latest research in RFID sensors. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags have been deployed in a number of applications such as apparel tagging, logistics, transport, airport luggage tagging, library items, contactless cards, car clickers, etc. for several decades, culminating in a market size of $12Bn market size in 2017. RFID usually involves tags, interrogators and corresponding software to enable wireless communication between the tags and interrogators. Usually, the only data that is sent is the information stored on the tag such as the unique ID. However, now IDTechEx sees an increasing trend of tags incorporating sensors, providing variable sensor information sent to the interrogators.

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.

China tackling the lead scandals: further turn of the screw

In 2017, China has moved further against lead acid batteries and the horrific injuries and deaths they cause in China at the smelting and disposal stages.

Huge bet on hydrogen economy

In January 2017, it was announced that Toyota Motor Corporation and four of its biggest automotive competitors are joining oil and gas giants including Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Total SA with plans to invest a combined 10 billion euros ($10.7 billion) in hydrogen-related products within five years.

Electricity utilities reinvented and bypassed

"Death by a Thousand Cuts" was the brutal appraisal of the power generation goliaths by Jeffrey Eckel of Hannon Armstrong, the leading energy investment house, at the Barclays Future Energy Conference December 2016 in London.

Webinar Tuesday 7 February - Robotic Sensing Technologies

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 7 February 2017 titled Robotic Sensing Technologies: The advent of artificial intelligence in robots.