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2016

Soft robots that mimic human muscles

Researchers are developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human muscles and may be used in physical rehabilitation. They are made of low-cost materials and could easily be produced on a large scale.

A drone with insect-inspired folding wings

When designing robots to help in the search for victims after a natural disaster, a number of features are important, robustness, long battery life and ease of transport. With this latest constraint in mind, a team present their new drone with insect-inspired folding wings.

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.

3D-nanoprinting to turbocharge microscopes

Researchers have printed nanometric-scale sensors capable of improving the performance of atomic force microscopes.

Printing energy producing photographs

Researchers wanted to take the idea of printed solar cells further, and see if their materials could be inkjet-printed as pictures and text like traditional printing inks.

Breakthrough towards perovskite solar cell industrialisation

Perovskite solar modules were produced using simple and ubiquitous printing techniques, avoiding otherwise commonly used and expensive methods such as chemical vapor deposition or metal evaporation.

Autonomous shuttles start giving rides in Sion

The smart vehicles will be run by PostBus, Switzerland's leading public bus operator. They will carry up to 11 passengers at a time, at a maximum speed of 20 kilometers per hour. They will be monitored and controlled by a remote operator using a software program developed by the EPFL startup BestMile.

Perovskite solar cells surpass 20% efficiency

Researchers are pushing the limits of perovskite solar cell performance by exploring the best way to grow these crystals.

Amputee feels texture with a bionic fingertip

An amputee was able to feel smoothness and roughness in real-time with an artificial fingertip that was surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm.

Gait Up

Gait Up are a small Swiss company developing and selling high value physiological analysis and characterisation sensors. They were founded in 2013 following 15 years of work at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. IDTechEx interviewed Alex Russell at a conference in early 2016.

Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length

Researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors.

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.

Producing electrical power with cardboard, tape, and a pencil

A small device made from everyday materials can generate enough energy to power several diodes.

Cheaper solar cells with 20.2 percent efficiency

Scientists have developed a solar-panel material that can cut down on photovoltaic costs while achieving competitive power-conversion efficiency of 20.2%.

2015

Processed perovskite has superior stability

A new perovskite solar cell with 16% efficiency has been developed by researchers from Switzerland and China.

Charging an electric vehicle in five minutes in the future

The UFCEV (Ultrafast Charging of Electric Vehicles) station, developed by Empa, ETh Zurich, EPF Lausanne and Bern University of Applied Sciences, is said to charge an electric vehicle in just 5 minutes.

A graphene‐based sensor that is tunable and highly sensitive

Researchers at have developed a sensor made from graphene to detect molecules such as proteins and drugs.

Dyesol

Dyesol was established in 2004 to commercialise a third generation photovoltaic nanotechnology called Dye Solar Cells (DSC) or Dye Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC). The company is now working on perovskite PV cells--one of the emerging PV technologies with rapid efficiency growth.

Advanced R&D inkjet printer with in-line integrated photonic curing

Ceradrop MGI Group announces CeraPrinter equipment placement with integrated NovaCentrix PulseForge photonic curing at The Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry LEPA at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL in Switzerland.

Electronic circuits with reconfigurable pathways closer to reality

Multitasking circuits capable of reconfiguring themselves in real time and switching functions as the need arises.

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