Beijing Apollo Ding Rong Solar developed a solar cell with CIGS sublayers with 13.4% efficiency
Beijing Apollo Ding Rong Solar, located in Santa Clara CA, is developing a solar cell with CIGS absorber sublayers that has a conversion efficiency of at least 13.4% and a minority carrier lifetime below 2 nanoseconds.
Modeling AI on human sleep leads to significant processing benefits.
Researchers in Italy have found that AI benefits from sleep too. The team discovered that modeling an AI's rest and memory clearing phases after human REM and deep sleep cycles lead to a much higher processing efficiency.
Prototype bed from Ford keeps partners on their side of the bed.
Ford isn't well known for its sleep technology, but it is known for keeping your car in its lane. The company is now using its technology to keep bed partners in their lanes through a prototype rolling bed. The bed uses sensors and rollers…
LR Technologies is monitoring health using EEG and ECG
LR Technologies, located in Rockville MD, is monitoring people's health conditions based on electromagnetic field signals emitted from their bodies, such as EEG and ECG.
uBiome to expand microbiome database to Malays
uBiome has awarded a grant to Dr. Maude Phipps at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Malaysia to study the association of health, diet and cultural practices in Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers and indigenous…
Arc Devices is detecting multiple vital signals and storing them in an electronic medical record system
Arc Devices, located in Boca Raton FL, is detecting multiple vital signals from various sensors, such as a digital infrared sensor and a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor, and storing them in an electronic medical record system.
Researchers at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University are developing systems for remote health monitoring
Researchers at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, located in India, are developing systems for remote health monitoring and management by using sensors attached to the patient's body.
Nuance unveiled its Ambient Clinical Intelligence, an AI-based assistant in exam rooms
Nuance Communications, located in Burlington MA, is proactively processing video and audio information of a patient encounter to determine whether medical conditions are present. On 2/11/2019, Nuance unveiled its Ambient Clinical…
Cocoro determining emotions from hormones
Cocoro SB, located in Japan, is determining people's emotions based on the secretion amounts of endocrine substances.
Vision System to Recognize Pedestrian Intention
University of Michigan researchers are interpreting body language to determine a pedestrian's intention. The system processes lidar and stereo camera images to estimate not just a person's trajectory, but their pose and gait. Pose can…
NASA has selected Nevada’s UAS Test Site for its operation
NASA is detecting and localizing power line corona discharges and/or electrical arcs using a UAV with an ultraviolet sensor and a reflective parabolic dish. On 2/15/2019, NASA announced that it has selected Nevada's UAS Test Site for…
RavenOps can flexibly scale drones for industrial inspection
RavenOps, a startup located in San Francisco CA, can flexibly scale drones for industrial inspection to meet many different types of industrial inspections.
Panasonic is detecting and recording the position of a moving UAV
Panasonic is detecting and recording the position of a moving UAV if light emitted is received by a receiver within a fixed time; otherwise commanding the UAV to return to the last recorded position.
Intel files a slew of patents (23)
Intel is developing a wide range of UAV technologies, including systems for preventing collisions between drones, locating vehicles on a 3D map, deploying safety equipment from drones, managing swarms of drones, and more.
Honeywell is developing an apparatus for supplementing sensor data to aircraf
Honeywell is developing an apparatus for supplementing sensor data to aircraft when they are in shadow regions, in which RADAR is unreliable.
GSE Technologies is identifying defects in infrastructure using UAVs
GSE Technologies, located in Houghton MI, is developing a remote scanning and detection system, which can utilize UAVs, for identifying defects in infrastructure such as roadways or bridges.
The US Army awarded FLIR $39.6 million for their Black Hornet PRS
FLIR Systems, located in Wilsonville OR, is developing a torque-dependent and resonant-operating thrust-generating rotor assembly whose blade pitch angles can be controlled. The U.S. Army awarded FLIR Systems a $39.6 million contract…
DJI launches geofencing GEO
DJI is developing a UAV that selects a flight mode based on the state of the UAV. DJI is improving its geofencing technology with the launch of its Geospatial Environment Online (GEO) 2.0 system across Europe, bringing…
UAVs displacing parking Nazis
CloudParc, located in Great Neck NY, is developing a system of using cameras on UAVs to track and toll vehicles, specifically when parking.
Boeing is developing a wide range of UAV technologies
Boeing is developing a system for providing secure data transmission to UAVs using identity-based cryptography. Boeing is also developing an automated detection and avoidance system for vehicles such as UAVs. Furthermore, Boeing is…
Autel Robotics is developing a flight direction display method for UAVs
Autel Robotics, headquartered in China, is developing a flight direction display method for UAVs with camera systems.
AT&T is developing a UAV that can deploy a communication device
AT&T is developing a UAV that can deploy a communication device in proximity to a transmission medium.
TSMC suspects Shin-Etsu and others for contamination due to a defective batch of chemicals
Shin-Etsu Chemical, located in Japan, is developing a photovoltaic generation system that can suppress the degradation of solar cell characteristics due to PID while suppressing increase in manufacturing costs. Last month, TSMC…
Kaneka is developing a crystalline silicon-based solar cell
Kaneka, located in Japan, is developing a crystalline silicon-based solar cell.
Toshiba is developing a semiconductor element with a transparent metal oxide barrier layer
Toshiba is developing a highly efficient, durable, and large-area semiconductor element with a transparent metal oxide barrier layer in between the active layer and an electrode.
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