Sony Corporation

ACEO Launches Hard/Soft Multi-Material 3D Printing

WACKER's ACEO team launches another new-to-the-world material combination that allows silicone elastomers and epoxy thermoset materials to be printed in one single print. The resulting combination of hard and soft materials enables designers and engineers to develop new, highly functional applications.

CVD Graphene for Electronic Applications: 2021 Status and Outlook

Given the exciting properties, graphene has always been linked as a revolutionary material for the electronics industry. CVD graphene is cited as the ideal solution in providing a perfect single layer produced in a low cost continuous R2R process, but the manufacturing and commercial reality have proved very different. After a long period of research, and with players regularly exiting and entering the field, we are only now starting to see this technology mature and the dawn of the commercial reality.

Haptics at CES 2021

Of all the topics represented at CES, none suffer more fundamentally from the move to a virtual conference than haptics. This said, CES remains an important event in the calendar for this technology area, and there were a good cross section of different companies discussing and presenting new ideas and products at the event. This article reviews some of the company highlights.

Join the Upcoming Webinar - The Beginning of a New Era for Haptics

Tuesday 26 January 2021 - Competitive landscape amongst leading actuator manufacturers; comparison of various emerging technology options and their commercial potential; broader themes in haptic feedback and go-to-market approaches and a review from recent industry events (including CES 2021)

IDTechEx Report Documents Turning Point in the $3.6bn Haptics Industry

IDTechEx have released their latest report on haptics, projecting that the industry will grow from $3.6bn in 2020 to nearly $5bn per year by 2025.

AR VR Technology: The Defining Technology of 2020-2030

Virtual, augmented and mixed reality products have continued to receive high levels of funding and investment during the 2010 decade. IDTechEx predicts that this technology will grow to over $30bn by 2030. This article aims to explain the growth in demand behind this exciting technology.

General Vibration - Update

IDTechEx caught up with John Houston, Founder and CEO of General Vibration, about their latest progress. Our conversation came shortly after the launch of the PS5 from Sony and around the time of their filing of another key patent.

Nanoport

IDTechEx interviewed Tim Szeto, CEO of Nanoport to discuss their latest technical and commercial progress with their Tachammer / LMR haptic actuators.

Miraisens, Inc.

IDTechEx interviewed Hiroyuki Ikushima, Masatoshi Miyakawa and Norio Nakamura from Miraisens. They are a haptics company based in Japan which was acquired by Murata in December 2019. IDTechEx spoke to them about their 3DHaptics technology and business objectives.

Micro-LED - Lighting the Way for Display Technologies?

Micro-LED is exciting the markets and commentators, but the question of whether, and how, it will become the natural replacement for other LED technologies, including the currently dominant LCD and OLED, is somewhat complex.

Immersion Corporation

Immersion are the most prominent patentholder within the haptics space. They were founded in 1993, went public in 1999, and maintain a critical position as a technology licensing player in haptics today. This profile provides a comprehensive overview of their history and their position in 2020.

Agrowing

Agrowing Ltd. is a world leading provider of high resolution, high-quality multispectral sensing solutions. IDTechEx Interviewed Ira Dvir.

AAC Technologies

AAC Technologies are a leading manufacturer of electromagnetic haptic actuators such as ERM motors and LRAs.

Advanced Technology Labs Americas, a Yuneec Company

Advanced Technology Labs Americas is a Yuneec company designing and manufacturing world-leading commercial UAV's focused on providing precision aerial platforms that are reliable, plug and play, and easy to use across multiple mobile sensor needs. They attended Commercial UAV EXPO Americas Conference 2020.

Cutting Surgical Robots Down to Size

Recently, surgical robots have started to appear in operating rooms to further assist surgeons by allowing them to manipulate multiple tools at once with greater precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with traditional techniques. However, these robotic systems are extremely large, often taking up an entire room, and their tools can be much larger than the delicate tissues and structures on which they operate.

MicroLED Displays: Getting Ready for the Future?

MicroLED, believed by many to be the next generation of display technology, has been pursued by players of LED, display, OEM, materials and so on. Differentiated from LCD and OLED, microLED is considered to be the only display technology that has no size limitation. What are the potential applications?

VCSEL and SPAD solid-state lidars: how far can they go?

The 3D lidar story is becoming ever more interesting. The focus at first was on autonomous driving, but, given the timelines and the potential of the technology, it is now migrating into consumer, ADAS, security, autonomous robots, and beyond.