CERADROP (Limoges, France), a MGI Group company, has supplied LAAS-CNRS with one of its state-of-the-art lines, the CeraPrinter F-Serie. The French Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems concentrates its efforts on major scientific orientations for emerging systems and services of the future. To anticipate the major challenges of applications, LAAS-CNRS is oriented on the main scientific axis, based on four disciplines in Computer Science, Robotics, Automatic Control & Micro and Nanosystems. CERADROP has provided this prestigious and innovative laboratory with its cutting-edge equipment for advanced R&D to address the most challenging R&D goals. The business model of CERADROP is based on the design and manufacturing of advanced CeraPrinter platforms for printed electronics and smart 3D printing.

Merck (Darmstadt, Germany), a leading science and technology company, announced the winners of the third annual Displaying Futures Award. This year, 97 applicants from around the globe submitted their smart medical ideas. The top ten teams, who have devoted themselves to topics such as wearables, artificial intelligence for real time data, smart devices for diagnostics, and sensors for disease prediction, were invited to the new Merck Innovation Center at the company headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany on 4-6 June where they pitched their ideas for a chance to be one of the three winning teams.