The company’s research sector is combining computer technology and scientific projects.
Itechpost.com reported that HP Labs appears to be “reinventing the future through transformative technologies”, which are set to unsettle economies and industries globally.
The company’s inkjet printers have been redesigned to enable the printing of living cells, and this is just one of the ongoing projects. The report goes on to talk about HP’s inventions in Silicon Valley, and noted that originally the company talked about atoms and “building electronic transistors on silicon wafers”, which were the transistors that started the “computer evolution”.
The company was also ahead of its time in realising the importance of Google and Facebook, and still remaining innovative, the company is now combining both. Chandrakant Patel, HP Chief Engineer, believes that Silicon Valley will become “a cyber physical valley in the 21st century” due to Google testing “self-piloting stratospheric balloons” to provide internet access, and then there is the driverless car designed by Tesla Motors, as well as Amazon and its delivery drones, so HP Labs is said to have to keep ahead of the game.
In the last 30 years HP and HP Labs have seen huge changes within the company, not least the 1999 split and then again the split last year into HP Inc and HPE. Despite this, HP Labs which was founded 50 years ago, has remained true to its original goal of researching and developing, from physics to prototypes, and not least of these are the new 3D printers and “nanotechnology applications”.