6 Jan 2020

Off-Road Vehicle Makers Can Beat Car Makers
Car giants are in difficulty.
The leading car makers have sales larger than the economies of many countries. Toyota and Volkswagen Group are up at the $300 billion level
Update
6 Jan 2020

Scanogen
Scanogen (formally Twistnostics) are working on a way to eliminate the need for amplifying genetic material by increasing the sensitivity of detection to the point that amplification is no longer needed.
6 Jan 2020

Bioelectric Stimulation to Clear Skin Lesions
The delivery of ultrashort pulses of electrical energy represents a promising nonthermal, nonscarring method of inducing regulated cell death in common skin lesions.
6 Jan 2020

Aquatic Rover Goes for a Drive Under the Ice
BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
6 Jan 2020

Largest Photovoltaic Plant in Europe Finalized Within One Year
Europe's biggest photovoltaic plant has already been finalized. Iberdrola has completed in record time, in just one year, construction of the Núñez de Balboa project, which recently obtained its commissioning permit.
3 Jan 2020

Robot Shuttles: Major New Form of Transportation
IDTechEx has issued the first in-depth report on this called, "Robot Shuttles and Autonomous Buses 2020-2040". Robot shuttles are an important new, reconfigurable form of transportation for goods and people that may even function as mobile offices, workshops, restaurants and more.
Update
3 Jan 2020

Illumina
Illumina dominants the DNA sequencing market at the moment. It shares 67% of the current market.
Update
3 Jan 2020

Affymetrix
Affymetrix provides a line of products for the parallel analysis of biological systems at the gene, RNA, protein and cell level.
Update
3 Jan 2020

Pacific Biosciences
Pacific biosciences develops single molecule real time sequencing (SMRT), based on the properties of zero-mode waveguides, to provide real-time analysis of biomolecules with single-molecule resolution.
3 Jan 2020

Harnessing Hot Carriers for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way to extract more energy from sunlight. By tuning the structure of a 2D perovskite solar material, researchers have shown they can prolong the lifetime of highly energetic hot carriers generated by light striking the material. The approach could offer a way to capture solar energy more efficiently.
Youtube interview
3 Jan 2020

Classic Stripes Demonstrate Printed Electronic Graphics
Classic Stripes Private Limited (part of Astarc Group) is an Indian company headquartered in Mumbai.
External press release
3 Jan 2020

Award-Winning Glove is First Affordable All-Day Wireless VR/AR Haptic
BeBop Sensors will announce the first VR haptic glove integrated and exclusively designed for Oculus Quest, Oculus Link, Oculus Rift S, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive Pro, HTC Focus Plus, and Varjo VR headset technology.
3 Jan 2020

Hyundai to Operate 44 Electric Vehicles by 2025 Including 11 BEVs
Hyundai Motor Group held its 2020 New Year ceremony at its headquarters in Seoul, outlining its innovation priorities and strategic direction.
3 Jan 2020

Study Evaluates Effects of Race, Age, Sex on Face Recognition Software
How accurately do face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background? According to a new study the answer depends on the algorithm at the heart of the system, the application that uses it and the data it's fed — but the majority of face recognition algorithms exhibit demographic differentials.
3 Jan 2020

Aqueous Lithium-Ion Battery Improves Safety, Performance
As the lithium-ion batteries that power most phones, laptops, and electric vehicles become increasingly fast-charging and high-performing, they also grow increasingly expensive and flammable.
Full profile interview
2 Jan 2020

Ampcera Inc.
Ampcera Inc. is a U.S.-based company in the development and commercialisation of solid-state electrolyte materials for high performance lithium batteries and their upstream & downstream industries.
Full profile interview
2 Jan 2020

InvertedPower Pty Ltd
InvertedPower is a research and development company focused
on power conversion technologies for electric vehicle
charging stations and onboard traction drives.
Background
2 Jan 2020

Dexerials
IDTechEx caught up with Dexerials at the IDTechEx Show! USA 2019. Dexerials were showcasing their thermal interface materials (TIM), in particular those utilising carbon fiber for high through-plane thermal conductivity.
Background
2 Jan 2020

Infarm
Infarm is a Berlin-based start-up that creates urban farms to grow vegetables inside supermarkets, schools and offices. Using its hydroponics-based growing technology, Infarm brings fresh, local produce to people living in some of the world's biggest cities. Having raised over $130 million in funding and deployed over 500 farming units, Infarm is one of the world's largest urban farming platforms.
Background
2 Jan 2020

Bando
IDTechEx caught up with Bando at the IDTechEx Show! USA 2019