25/10/2015

Industry 4.0

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How solar energy can bring advantage to prosumers and distributors

Solar systems on the roofs of residential buildings often produce energy precisely when the residents can’t actually use it. Stationary ...

Imagine a truck tarp that can harvest the energy of sunlight!

With the help of new textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed ...

Best Transport Connections with Quick Algorithms

Relying on public transport as a newcomer or occasional user can be rather stressful. For some years now, apps have ...

Remote Controlled Haptic Vest for Dogs

Dogs can be trained to respond to haptic vibration commands while wearing a modified canine vest developed by an interdisciplinary ...

Record-breaking, high-efficiency single crystals bring perovskite solar cells closer to market

A synthetic approach developed by KAUST researchers generates homogeneous and defect-free crystals that could fast-track the commercialization of perovskite solar ...

Measure, analyze, optimize – digitization offers numerous new starting points for even better quality control in photovoltaics

The Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP presents innovative contributions to quality control in the solar industry at the Intersolar ...

Anti-fingerprint surfaces with nanocoating

Not only are greasy fingerprints on shiny stainless steel surfaces unattractive, they also attack the surface in question. A new ...

A quick assessment of the solar energy potential for large urban areas

TU Delft researchers have developed a new approach for calculating fast and accurate the solar energy potential of surfaces in ...

New record for flexible thin-film solar cells

Never before has such an efficient flexible CIGS solar cell been built. Empa researchers achieve an efficiency of 20.8% for ...

Economical energy storage for the electric car of tomorrow

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden have developed a new production process with ...

A new nanomaterial increase extra efficiency of solar cells

A new nanomaterial made from phosphorus, known as phosphorene, is shaping up as a key ingredient for more sustainable and ...

Record efficiency for a gas engine

At the end of May, the final meeting of the “Horizon 2020” project “GasOn” with the EU Commission took place ...

Drone swarm capable synchronize and reconfigure its flightpath

Specialists from the Academic Laboratory of Industrial Robotics of Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a multi-agent robotic system for flying ...

HAPTIC technology has been called the Holy Grail of robotics

After much anticipation, ANA HOLDINGS INC., HaptX, SynTouch, Shadow Robot Company are set to unveil the next generation of robotics ...

Advanced haptic solutions with the world’s highest performance actuators

TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) announces that its subsidiary TDK Electronics has signed a cooperation agreement with Boréas Technologies Inc., developer of ...