30 Aug 2017

Highly flexible, wearable displays
A research team has presented wearable displays for various applications including fashion, IT, and healthcare.
21 Jun 2017

Face recognition system 'K-Eye'
Artificial intelligence is one of the key emerging technologies. Global IT companies are competitively launching the newest technologies and competition is heating up more than ever.
7 Jun 2017

Solar and wind power reinvented: latest news
Virtually all of the new grid capacity being added in the world is renewable or nuclear nowadays.
23 May 2017

Parasitic robot system
The research team took an animal's locomotive abilities to apply the theory of using a robot as a parasite. The robot is attached to its host animal in a way similar to an actual parasite, and it interacts with the host through particular devices and algorithms.
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.
7 Sep 2016

Continuous roll-process technology for flexible LSI
A research team has jointly developed a continuous roll-processing technology that transfers and packages flexible large-scale integrated circuits, the key element in constructing the computer's brain such as CPU, on plastics to realize flexible electronics.
1 Aug 2016

Ultrathin, transparent oxide thin-film transistors for wearables
With the advent of the Internet of Things era, strong demand has grown for wearable and transparent displays that can be applied to various fields such as augmented reality and skin-like thin flexible devices.
5 Jul 2016

Energy harvesting: The place of triboelectrics
Triboelectrics will only be a small part of the energy harvesting EH market projected by IDTechEx to be over $7 billion in global market value in 2027.
28 Jun 2016

Accelerating the commercialization of DSSC technology
A team of Korean scientists has revealed a potential counter electrode material, which can help reduce the cost of Dye Sensitised Solar Cells and thereby accelerating the commercialization of DSSC technology.
23 Jun 2016

Accelerating the commercialization of DSSC technology
A team of Korean scientists has revealed a potential counter electrode material, which can help reduce the cost of Dye Sensitised Solar Cells and thereby accelerating the commercialization of DSSC technology.
20 Jun 2016

Turnable, twistable robots
Forget steel and aluminum. The robots of tomorrow may be able to squish, stretch and squeeze.
6 Jun 2016

Graphene-based transparent electrodes for flexible OLEDs
The arrival of a thin and lightweight computer that even rolls up like a piece of paper will not be in the far distant future.
6 Apr 2016

Potential for capturing waste heat via nanotubes
A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat.
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17 Mar 2016

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16 Mar 2016

Orchestration of systems of mobile robots
Modern mobile robots have increasingly practical capabilities. Yet, while the capabilities of such mobile robots are impressive, how useful is a single mobile robot?
16 Nov 2015

Membrane nano-fasteners key to next-generation fuel cells
Scientists have developed a new way of making fuel cell membranes using nanoscale fasteners, paving the way for lower-cost, higher-efficiency and more easily manufactured fuel cells.
19 Oct 2015

Stretchable far-field communication antenna for wearables
Due to the complex structuring, asymmetric surface of human body and atypical motion such as stretching in elbow, finger joints, wrist, knee, ankle, etc. electronics integrated to body need to be physically flexible, conforming and stretchable.
9 Oct 2015

See the Future of EV Technology
Formula One racing gave us the disk brake and more recently led to 60,000 rpm energy harvesting flywheels on London Buses. No one planned to make a London bus look like a Formula One racing car but the bus people saw their future in racing technology.
14 Aug 2015

Fiber-like light-emitting diodes for wearable displays
Researchers have developed fiber-like light-emitting diodes which can be applied in wearable displays.
11 Aug 2015

Piezoelectric elastic energy harvesting arrives
Elastic piezoelectric generators are being developed with microwatts demonstrated and watts in prospect for large formats.