Aimed at robot hands and grippers, Tactaxis from Melexis is a soft tactile sensor prototype that outputs a measure of the 3D force vector acting on its surface. “This improves robots’ hands and grippers, making delicate operations such as fruit picking possible,” according to the Belgian company. Uniquely, it said, it’s gradiometric approach makes it ...
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Silicon Catalyst, the incubator focused exclusively on accelerating semiconductor startups, has admitted six more conpanies: They are: ApLife Biotech – Argentina “Becoming World Leaders in Discovery for Biosensors” Lemurian Labs – Canada “Building a next-gen AI Accelerator to enable deep learning on the edge” NanoHydro Chem – USA “Energy Storage Solutions” RAAAM – Israel “Providing ...
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Astrocast has made its bidirectional satellite IoT service commercially available, aimed at connecting IoT devices globally for use outside of cell-based terrestrial networks. The service uses Astrocast’s own recently launched nanosatellite constellation, in Low Earth Orbit, and it is bidding to support low-cost applications in asset tracking and telemetry. Target sectors include agriculture and livestock, ...
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Street lights, bus shelters and traffic lights will be used for deploying 5G equipment, says the DCMS. Eight winning projects will receive a share from the £4 million Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) to explore how digital software can help simplify local authority processes when telecoms operators request access to publicly-owned buildings and curbside infrastructure. ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has made a major innovation to improve robots’ ability to interact with fragile or diverse objects. The company has unveiled Tactaxis, a fully integrated tactile sensor that is compact, soft and provides the 3D force vector acting on its surface. This improves robots’ hands and grippers, making delicate operations ...
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Diodes has released a non-isolated 10W power supply IC that delivers up to 10W or 600mA from universal mains. It has an internal 700V mosfet and works with mains from 85Vac to 300Vac, and typically with peak current up to 1.1A. “A key differentiator of this switcher IC is that it supports conventional off-line non-isolated ...
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The EU president Ursula von der Leyen launched the $48 billion EU Chips Act this afternoon. The Act aims to rival the $52 billion US Chips Act with the goals of quadrupling EU IC output in the next eight years and securing 20% world market share for Europe.. $48 billion in one year, on its ...
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Anritsu has created the MS27201A remote spectrum monitor series, that includes a 43.5GHz version for new satellite downlink bands. A 110MHz measurement bandwidth supports common satellite downlink spans, DANL (displayed average noise level) is -164dBm and the typical TOI (third-order intercept point) is +20dBm. Other MS27201A versions work up to 9GHz or 20GHz. All work down ...
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SoftBank has abandoned its attempt to sell Arm to Nvidia and will now IPO it next year. Arm CEO Simon Segars has been replaced by Rene Haas. Softbank and Nvidia agreed to terminate the deal because of “significant regulatory challenges preventing the consummation of the transaction, despite good faith efforts by the parties,” says SoftBank. ...
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NXP has combined NFC, secure authentication, anti-tamper and a sensor interface into a single battery-free chip family called NTAG 22x. The parts are aimed high-volume tagging applications, for example: authenticating retail products or protecting them from tampering, or battery-free environment sensing. They include ISO/IEC 14443-A communication and function as an NFC Forum Type 2 tag, and ...
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