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Vahana's first flight a success

Airbus, A³, and the Vahana team announce their successful first flight. Alpha One, reached a height of 5 meters before descending safely. Its first flight, with a duration of 53 seconds, was fully self-piloted and the vehicle completed a second flight the following day.

A simple new approach to plastic solar cells

Plastic solar cells, based on blends of conducting organic polymers, are of interest for making lightweight and cheap solar cells. The problem with these kinds of solar cells is that their solar power efficiencies are very closely related to the way the different types of materials mix and crystalize in thin films. This means complex and careful processing is usually needed to make efficient polymer solar cells.

3D printing of living cells

Using a new technique they call 'in-air microfluidics', scientists succeed in printing 3D structures with living cells. This special technique enable the fast and 'on-the-fly' production of micro building blocks that are viable and can be used for repairing damaged tissue, for example.

Flexible lithium battery for wearable electronics

The rapid development of flexible and wearable electronics is giving rise to an exciting range of applications, from smart watches and flexible displays—such as smart phones, tablets, and TV—to smart fabrics, smart glass, transdermal patches, sensors, and more. With this rise, demand has increased for high-performance flexible batteries. Up to now, however, researchers have had difficulty obtaining both good flexibility and high energy density concurrently in lithium-ion batteries.

Lightweight robots harvest cucumbers

Automation-intensive sectors such as the automotive industry are not the only ones to rely on robots. In more and more agricultural settings, automation systems are superseding strenuous manual labor. A

Halo Neuroscience

IDTechEx analyst Dr Alexis Karandrea conducted a Q&A session with this company.

Drones: large size means large market

The hobbyist market for drones has turned out to be something of a passing fad. Professional use is enduring and growing with modest numbers and a strong software and services aspect.

Norway aims for all short-haul flights to be 100% electric by 2040

Boeing Co backed startup Zunum has begun building its first electric airplane motor and is working with U.S. agencies to prepare for commercial flights to take off from small U.S. airports in 2022.

Grid security: mounting concerns

Across the world, there is mounting concern about the increasing insecurity of grid electricity in the face of the more violent weather caused by global warming and the new ease with which both cyberattack and physical attack can take place.

Hybrid Power System & Smart Pumps for Distributed Hydraulic Network

Terzo Power Systems is dedicated to the development, commercialization, and manufacture of high performance, compact, and ultra-efficient hydraulic systems and off-road, heavy-duty hybrid system technology.

Hydrogen Not Batteries for Grid Balancing?

A large amount of renewable energy production is turned off when it is being produced at a time of day or the season when it is not needed. Lithium-ion batteries have recently become popular not just for compensating at the house level but even at the power station grid level.

Airport EVs

EVs at airports include terminal vehicles used by workmen and to ferry the disabled and Ground Service Equipment (GSE) serving the aircraft on airside. Airport GSE EVs were the largest industrial/ commercial EV market subsector after forklifts but it was overtaken by buses in numbers around 2016 and in market value much earlier. However, airports remain a growth industry for EVs because the number of aircraft flying is increasing.

Engineers 3D print shape-shifting smart gel

Engineers have invented a "4D printing" method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of "living" structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery.

British Airways using facial recognition

British Airways has become the first airline to trial self-service biometric boarding gates on international flights out of the USA, working in partnership with Los Angeles Airport.

A nanophenomenon that triggers the bone-repair process

Researchers have discovered that bone is flexoelectric. They posit the possible role of flexoelectricity in the regeneration of bone tissue in and around the kind of microfractures incurred in bones on a daily basis.

Stretchable electronics: keeping it simple brings success

Stretchable and conformable electronics will reach $600M by 2027. In this article, we will provide high-level descriptions of the activity taking place for various stretchable and conformable components.

Sandvik

Sandvik AB (publ) operates as an engineering company in the areas of rock excavation, metal-cutting, and materials technology worldwide.

Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc., founded in 1925, is an American corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network.

Arizona fuel cell truck factory announced

The new 500 acre, one million square foot facility will be located on the west side of Phoenix and will bring more than $1 billion in capital investment to the region by 2024.

Tiny scales for medical implants and flexible electronics

Scales are the material of choice for animals from pangolins to fish: They're customizable, water-friendly, strong but flexible, and easy to fix when damaged. Scientists would like to recreate this unique structure—they can imagine uses from medical implants to flexible electronics—but it's proved difficult using non-organic materials.