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How Flexible Integrated Circuits Unlock Their Potential

Flexible hybrid electronic (FHE) promises to combine the functionality of conventional rigid electronics with the flexibility of printed electronics. A prototypical FHE circuit, in which an integrated circuit is combined with multiple other elements, includes (for example) printed sensors, an antenna, a thin film battery and even thin film PV. Not all components need to be included, or even printed, for a circuit to count as FHE, but it must include as a minimum both printed and placed functionality.

Lightricity

Lightricity is a niche photovoltaic start up, spun off from SHARP Laboratories of Europe in the UK. They focus on indoors where their technology has an exceptional 30% efficiency there, particularly under white LED and Fluorescent lighting.

50 MWh of Energy Delivered Wirelessly to Electric Bus Fleet

Link Transit has this month achieved 50 megawatt-hours of energy delivered wirelessly to its electric bus fleet. Link Transit is the first electric bus operator in the Americas to reach this technology milestone, and the first in the world to do so in under two years.

Innovative Energy Storage System for Wind Farm Site

Plans for an innovative new energy storage system which would be located on the site of a South Yorkshire wind farm have been submitted for consideration.

Webinar - Autonomous Driving: Peak Car to Arrive as Early as 2031?

In this webinar, Dr Na Jiao provides an overview of the autonomous car and robotaxi market. Dr Jiao is a technology analyst at IDTechEx focusing on autonomous mobility, electric vehicles and energy storage related areas.

3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor: Faster, Economical Path to Nuclear Energy

Researchers are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the consistency and reliability of its printed components.

Tritium Launches World-First Plug and Charge Technology

The technology enables an electric vehicle and charger to communicate seamlessly and authorise payments directly from the driver's account, without the need for a card or RFID tag.

KYB Corp and REE Automotive to Develop Next-Gen Modular EV Platform

REE Automotive and KYB Corporation announced a strategic partnership to develop suspension capabilities for future electric vehicle platforms.

AMTE Power and Britishvolt sign MoU for UK's Landmark GigaFactory

AMTE Power and Britishvolt announce plans to investigate collaborating to build the UK's first full cycle battery cell GigaPlant, servicing the automotive and energy storage markets.

Mixed Reality in a Time of COVID-19

Recently the versatility of mixed and augmented reality products has come to the forefront of the news, with an Imperial led project at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Doctors have been wearing the Microsoft Hololens headsets whilst working on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, to aid them in their care for their patients.

DpiX

dpiX is both a manufacturer of x-ray image detectors and a foundry for (primarily) backplanes. It has a Gen 4.5 line spanning 239,000 sq ft, which is the largest outside Asia. It has recently extended its capability to make flexible image sensors using amorphous silicon on flexible polyimide substrates.

Precision Makers

A Dutch company that is doing its trials in Australia using off the shelf tractor, a Fendt 936 and even a John Deere 8R, equipped with an autonomic system from PROBOTIQ (a subsidiary of Precision Makers).

FENDT (AGCO)

FENDT has launched small mobile robots for swarm farming. The so—called MARS (mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms) system uses small robots operating in swarms and a cloud-based solution to plan, monitor and accurately document precise planting of corn.

Traptic

Traptic was established in 2016 and has raised some $3.4M according to Crunchbase. They are based on San Francisco.

Dogtooth

Dogtooth: robotic arm on an autonomous platform to pick fresh, grade and pack fresh berries

Carre

Carre: autonomous mechanical in-row weeding

Adigio

Adigio: autonomous weeding machine with precision sprayer and DNN-based weed detection

Octinion

Octinion is a Belgium based R&D firm helping design automated agricultural machinery. They have been accumulating experience since at least 2015.

Augen Robotics

Augen Robotics has raised $1.8million in funding thus far (July 2019). The company's founder previously worked on automation at CNH. At the time, he concluded that autonomy would come from start-ups, and not big companies.

IdaBot

IdaBot is developed at the Idaho-based Northwest Nazarene University. The goal of its first prototype is to autonomously navigate a vineyard using passive radio frequency tag (RFID) markers and demonstrate precision application of chemicals to grapes.