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STMicroelectronics and ARM have announced the winners of the ARM - ST University Design Contest 2015 in China. The contest, now in its third year, encourages university students in China to design innovative smart applications using STM32 Nucleo boards as hardware platform and the GCC open-source compiler or the MDK-ARM software development environment.

Enabling the fast integration of motion intelligence into any system, a series of highly accurate motion tracking modules has been introduced Fairchild. The FMT1000 series is suited for applications including drones, autonomous vehicles, unmanned systems, heavy industry, construction, agriculture, VR headsets and camera and platform stabilisation.

CES 2016 last week in Las Vegas was a huge success. Over 3800 exhibitors occupied over 2.47 million square feet. Attendances was over 170,000 including 50,000 from outside the U.S. CES was put on by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA, previously the Consumer Electronics Association). The name changes reflect the broadening of high technology consumer goods to include more than electronics - software, systems, advanced materials, etc.

Qualcomm Incorporated and TDK Corporation have announced an agreement to form a joint venture to enable delivery of RF front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters into fully integrated systems for mobile devices and fast-growing business segments, such as IoT, drones, robotics, automotive applications and more, under the name RF360 Holdings Singapore PTE (RF360 Holdings).

January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, will offer attendees a glimpse at the immediate digital future. So, what will be the key focus areas at next year’s event?

Chinese drone maker Ehang has unveiled what it claims is the world's first autonomous helicopter drone.The Ehang 184 is a 440-pound, eight-rotor aircraft which the company claims is able to lift a single person 500 metres into the air and fly them to any point on Google Maps, avoiding objects automatically and safely handling take-off and landing (as long as it can be reached within the 23 minutes battery limit).

The U.S. military’s scientific and technological wing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is essentially tasked with constructing the future. Robotic soldiers and artificial intelligence (AI) have both been indevelopmentfor some time, as have instantaneous language translation systems and advanced contact lenses.

Looking back at the past 10-15 years of the electronic instrumentation industry, it is certainly disappointing to realise that the market for new test equipment in 2015 is about the same size or less. What does this tell us and will the industry perform better in the future?

STMicroelectronics has released its second generation laser ranging sensor based on its FlightSense technology. The new VL53L0 sensor can range faster, over longer distances, and more accurately, thus improving smartphone and tablet camera performance and opening new possibilities and features in robotics, user detection, drones, IoT and wearables.

BioCarbon Engineering, based in the UK, has developed a system of planting trees with drones, at just a fraction of the cost of traditional reforestation methods, and at a speed that manual planting cannot match - up to tens of thousands of trees planted per day - and aims to plant one billion trees per year using the technology.