15 Mar 2018

Miami airport introduces facial recognition facility
The facility is the first in the country completely dedicated to providing expedited passport screening via facial recognition. The new technology verifies a travelers' identity by matching a traveler to the document they are presenting.
External press release
6 Mar 2018

enModus helps Virgin Media get smart about energy consumption
enModus, the smart building technology company, has successfully implemented a project with Virgin Media to radically reduce energy consumption at one of the telecom giant's major UK technical facilities.
7 Feb 2018

YASA opens new 100,000 unit Oxford production facility
YASA's new Oxford production facility was officially opened by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP.
24 Jan 2018

Partnership in $55m investment into off-grid energy access fund
The African Development Bank's Board approved a US $30-million investment in the Facility for Energy Inclusion Off-Grid Energy Access Fund. This follows the approval of additional investments of US $10 million from Calvert Impact Capital, US $8.5 million from the Global Environment Facility and €6 million from the Nordic Development Fund.
15 Sep 2017

New spin on 3D printing with build rates 30 times faster
Titomic Kinetic Fusion puts a new spin on 3D printing with build rates 30 times faster than the largest commercial 3D printing equipment available.
13 Sep 2017

Mobile robotics: forklifts will never be the same again?
Robotic technology will transform the forklift industry, causing a colossal transfer of value from human-provided driving services, towards spending on autonomous industrial material handling machines, thus fuelling an industry revenue boom far exceeding recent growth trends.
Background
8 Aug 2017

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)
Mobile Industrial Robots, (MiR) is a Danish mobile robotics start-up. It has around 30 employees and has raised some $1.4m in 2016. It has a range of autonomous mobile robots, mostly aimed at the low payload level end of the market
Background
8 Aug 2017

Omron Adpet Mobile Robotics
Omron acquired Adept Technologies for $200m in Sept 2015. Prior to this, Adept was a public company specialized in robotics. The Adept mobile robot has infrastructure-free navigation.
13 Jul 2017

Teaching care robots about human poses
Expectations for care robots are growing against the backdrop of declining birthrates, an aging population, and a lack of care staff.
10 Jul 2017

CPI has been selected as a support partner for SmartKem
The Centre for Process Innovation has been selected as a support partner to SmartKem for the accelerated pre-production of a new generation of low power, flexible display-based products through a new EU-funded project called FLEXTRANS.
Full profile interview
23 Mar 2017

Talga Resources Ltd
Talga Resources is an Australian public company possessing mines in Sweden that yield highly graphitic and conductive ores that can be directed exfoliated into graphene.
Full profile interview
13 Mar 2017

Aerosense
Aerosense is a joint venture between Sony and ZMP. The company focuses on UAVs for industrial applications like soil monitoring, facility management, and wind turbine blade inspection.
13 Mar 2017

First 3D-printed aircraft component takes to skies
Some teams have begun printing parts for race cars. However, the process for an aircraft demands a bit more caution because the plane most likely won't be on the ground if a part fails.
1 Feb 2017

LG Chem starts operation of carbon nanotube plant
LG Chem Ltd said they have begun mass-production of carbon nanotubes from the new factory in Yeosu, South Korea.
External press release
10 Oct 2016

Thinfilm secures state-of-the-art fabrication facility
Thin Film Electronics ASA announced that it has leased a former Qualcomm-owned manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley and will relocate its current US headquarters and NFC Innovation Center in the first quarter of 2017.
12 Sep 2016

Nano Dimension to open new ink production facility
Nano Dimension Technologies Ltd will open a production facility for the company's unique nano-ink products.
22 Aug 2016

A flexible future for today's technologies
Building highly complex flexible displays and X-ray detectors requires expertise in many areas.
10 Aug 2016

New lithium-ion battery technology for electric forklift trucks
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has launched a new highly efficient, emissions-free lithium-ion battery technology for its 5-9 ton electric forklift truck range.
11 Jul 2016

3D printing metal powder plant opens
Alcoa has opened its state-of-the-art, 3D printing metal powder production facility where the Company will produce proprietary titanium, nickel and aluminum powders optimized for 3D printed aerospace parts.
24 Jun 2016

Self-driving, 3D-printed smart bus hits the streets
Local Motors has introduced the first self-driving vehicle to integrate the advanced cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson.