14 Jun 2017

Nano fiber feels forces and hears sounds made by cells
Engineers have developed a miniature device that's sensitive enough to feel the forces generated by swimming bacteria and hear the beating of heart muscle cells.
14 Jun 2017

Optomec teams with Lockheed and GE to secure NextFlex contract award
The project, entitled "Conformal Printing of Conductor and Dielectric Materials onto Complex 3D Surfaces" has a total value on $3.1 million.
14 Jun 2017

Corvus Energy wins top industry awards for third consecutive year
This is the third consecutive year that Corvus has received the Supplier of the Year award and a first time win for Innovation of the Year.
14 Jun 2017

Sewbots brings manufacturing closer to home
The company's patented computer vision systems view fabric more accurately than the human eye, tracking exact needle placement to within half a millimeter of accuracy.
14 Jun 2017

Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants
Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for different types of biomarkers, such as proteins that show you may have breast cancer or lung cancer.
14 Jun 2017

100 kW airborne wind energy system
The TU Delft spin-off Kitepower is developing a 100 kW airborne wind energy system to complement diesel generators in remote locations with a cost-competitive green energy solution.
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14 Jun 2017

Fraunhofer IKTS
Fraunhofer IKTS, through the EMBATT project, is working on bipolar stacks of Li-ion batteries that enable an energy density of 450 Wh/L at systems level. The project was lauded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel
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13 Jun 2017

The world's first 3D printer at sub-micron direct metal printing
Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter at the IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2017
13 Jun 2017

Synthetic 'tongue' to sort out whiskies
Whiskies may differ in taste and smell, but they are so similar in chemical composition that most analyses can't tell two closely related brews apart.
13 Jun 2017

NEVS presents InMotion concept
NEVS recently displayed the new InMotion Concept for the very first time in Shanghai. This is not a normal car - it´s a vision on how we in the future can travel safely and efficiently through a big city, without owning the car - and without a driver.
13 Jun 2017

Europe's largest hybrid flywheel battery project
Europe's largest and the UK's first battery flywheel system will be connected to the Irish and UK grids to help respond to energy demand as part of a new project.
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13 Jun 2017

Lithops
Lithops is an Italian business venture focusing on the production of Li-ion batteries. Their expected capacity output is 200 MWh/year.
12 Jun 2017

Higher solar module efficiencies closer with nanowire breakthrough
Sol Voltaics has taken a significant leap towards commercializing its highly anticipated, efficiency-boosting solar technology by completing the manufacture of PV nanowires using its proprietary Aerotaxy process.
12 Jun 2017

Robot ships will be energy independent
IDTechEx reports on electric boats correctly predicted the advent of autonomous electric ships. We even see them becoming energy independent using such things as solar roads as rugged decking and airborne wind energy in the form of tethered drones flying at up to 1000 meters where the winds are consistent and have four times the energy.
12 Jun 2017

Scientists aim to stamp out new horticultural pest
Scientists will pursue cutting-edge microbiology and robotics research in a bid to stop a destructive and abundant pest which is now threatening fruit production around the world.
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12 Jun 2017

Movesense publicly launches software developer kit
Suunto is making it easier to rapidly develop and bring to market new, more accurate motion-sensing solutions with Movesense, a sophisticated sensor and software developer kit that's now publicly available.
9 Jun 2017

RIUM Radioactivity sensor: a powerful gamma spectrometer!
Two French companies on Nouvelle Aquitaine booth at IDTechEx show!
9 Jun 2017

Webinar Tuesday 20 June - Robotic Technology Transforming Agriculture
IDTechEx is hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 20 June 2017 titled How Progress and Innovation in Robotic Technology is Transforming Agriculture.
9 Jun 2017

The Evangelists and Pragmatists in the race to augment the world
At the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2017 last week IDTechEx analyst James Hayward began to subconsciously position each company and individual that he spoke to on a scale between two extremes, as explained in this article.
9 Jun 2017

High-performance Roll-to-Roll processing for flexible electronics
Functionalized and curved surfaces made of glass or plastic, rollable displays, high-quality bended surfaces for architecture or interior design in automotive or luxury furniture sector - flexible materials with integrated functionalities are not just a technological trend but capture markets already.