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‘EmbarkVet’ – dog DNA testing services.

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Embark is a canine genomics and biotechnology company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company offers dog DNA testing services to consumers, breeders, and veterinarians.  Embark's test was developed by veterinarians in partnership with Cornell University.  Embark can sniff out breeds that make up as little as 5% of your dog's overall DNA breed mix.  An Embark Breed + Health dog DNA test enables a dog owner to learn about their pup’s breed, ancestry, health, relatives, and mo...
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‘Genomelink’ – personal discovery tool to help you understand who you are genetically.

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Genomelink is raw DNA data upload site that provides reports of potential of genomics and the role it will play in our lives over the coming years. Genomelink uses your existing raw DNA data from services like AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, and 23andMe to give you additional insights into your DNA. The list of genetic traits that Genomelink examines is constantly expanding and is based on the latest scientific research.  Genomelink analyzes your genetic traits by connecting your raw DNA data...
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‘Cheetah Talk’ – Portable Instant Language Translator Device

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Smart translator that delivers two-way translation through a simple, one-button design. Just press and hold while you talk. There’s no need to switch languages or change settings to interrupt your conversation. One device that supports 42 most spoken languages with one-button. Developed with Microsoft Azure AI technology to support smarter, faster, and accurate translations. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software enables it to speak like a real person — shaping your conversations to ...
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OrionStar – Robotic Coffee Maker

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OrionStar, a subsidiary of Chinese tech company Cheetah Mobile has launched a robot coffee maker. Humanoid robot barista that simulates master-level brewing techniques and guarantees a refined taste in every cup. The robot, which can also prepare and serve tea, reportedly combines dual 6-axis robotic arms and 3,000 hours of AI learning. Cheetah Mobile Inc is a Chinese mobile Internet company headquartered in Beijing. The creator of some of the most popular global mobile apps, it h...
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GraphCore – Intelligence Processing Unit – new era of machine intelligence.

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IPU is a parallel processor to accelerate machine intelligence inside the processor. Graphcore's "Intelligence processing unit" (IPU) aims to do for AI what the graphics processing unit did for computing. Graphcore first chip, called the Colossus GC2, was a "16 nm massively parallel, mixed-precision floating point processor",packaged with two chips on a single PCI Express card called the Graphcore C2 IPU, it is stated to perform the same role as a GPU in conjunction with standard machine ...
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‘Apeel’ – edible coating to increase the shelf life of fruits & vegetables.

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Apeel uses materials that exist in the peels, seeds, and pulp of all fruits and vegetables to create a protective extra peel that seals moisture in and keeps oxygen out. That means our produce stays fresh, nutritious, and delicious twice as long. It also means less produce goes to waste throughout the supply chain—from grower to retailer to consumers at home. According to Apeel - Every piece of produce is a living, breathing thing, [and] it needs its own optimized little microclimate in ...
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‘Boarding Glasses’ -Motion Sickness Prevention Glasses

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Eyeglasses designed to prevent motion sickness. They claim to create a false horizon with liquid-filled tubes in the rims of the glasses, or with strobing lights embedded in the lenses. The glasses don't have lenses, so anyone can wear them and even wear them outside the regular glasses. Motion sickness, or kinetosis, occurs when there is sensory conflict between our visual and vestibular systems. This mismatch in sensory information may result in an array of symptoms ranging from...
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MUSE – is a multi-sensor meditation device that provides real-time feedback on your brain activity, heartbeat, breathing, and movement to improve focus.

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Muse is a brain-sensing headband that helps you refocus during the day and recover overnight. EEG-powered sleep tracking insights including sleep stage visualization, sleep position tracking, and a personalized sleep efficiency score. Muse S helps you understand and track how well you focus, sleep, and recharge so you can refocus during the day and recover each night. Muse connects to your mobile device via Bluetooth. Once connected, simply start the Muse Meditation app, put on you...
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Apollo Neuro – wearable wellness device for stress management that uses gentle vibrations to help the body destress naturally.

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Wearable wellness device for stress management that uses gentle vibrations to help the body destress naturally. Apollo Neuroscience is a wearable that uses low-frequency inaudible sound waves (vibrations) to help reduce stress, speed up recovery, and positively influence your nervous system by changing your heart rate variability (HRV). Apollo was developed by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh. Apollo is a wearable wellness device that uses gentle vibrations to he...
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‘Eat Just’ – Develops Plant-based alternatives and Lab Grown Meat

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'Eat Just' is a food technology company, and it believe everyone deserves to eat well. 'JUST EGG' - Tastes like eggs. Plant Based with similar flavor, texture and color to chicken eggs. JUST Egg is made from mung beans, which contain a protein that tastes and scrambles like eggs. The mung bean is a protein-rich legume that has been cultivated around the world for thousands of years and is a staple in many global cuisines. Cholesterol-free, antibiotic-free, and always non-GMO. T...
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Fudan University in Shanghai, China – COVID-19 diagnosis using machine-learning model based on ocular surface features

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The standard practices for screening patients with COVID-19 are the CT imaging or RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction) for testing viral nucleic acid, which is expensive and in need of professional equipment and waiting time. Fudan University in Shanghai, China has suggested a method that have shown that the COVID-19 patients are usually accompanied by ocular manifestations and constructed a machine-learning model based on ocular surface features and proposed a new screening method ...
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Vessel Health home wellness tracker

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Vessel in-home wellness tracker that instantly and accurately uncovers what your body really needs. Nutrition coach in your pocket.  With Vessel, users can test 10 different health metrics in less than 10 minutes Today's technology provides people with unprecedented data on their bodies, with many people relying on devices that help to track sleep, steps, and recovery, among other wellness indicators. Vessel represents the continuation of this trend, tracking what's going on inside you...
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GutBiome – Analyzes microorganisms in your gut and provide you with a full probiotics profile.

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GutBiome+ is an excellent tool for those interested in improving their digestive health and overall well-being. When you provide a stool sample for the gut health test, we use whole metagenome sequencing to: Analyze the microorganisms in your gutTell you about your microbe profile, metabolism, nutrition utility, lifestyle status, and gut typeProvide you with a full probiotics profileOffer custom dietary suggestions to implement based on your metabolism and microbiome Your health is he...
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Hapbee – for happiness, relaxation, focus. Using low-energy magnetic fields, it mimics signals that your brain already understands.

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Hapbee smart health connected headband is able to instantly make you feel the emotions you desire. Hapbee is powered by patented ultra-low radio frequency energy (ulRFE®) technology invented by EMulate Therapeutics, Inc., a technology company based in Seattle, WA. Hapbee - for happiness, relaxation, focus. Using low-energy magnetic fields, it mimics signals that your brain already understands. Hapbee imagines a world where every human can unleash thepotential they're born with — the p...
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Plant consciousness & Biocommunication

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Research is being conducted to understand Plant consciousness & Biocommunication. Research still is in progress, but some suggest - Plants may not have feelings but they are indeed alive and have been described as sentient life forms that have “tropic” and “nastic” responses to stimuli.  Plants can sense water, light, and gravity — they can even defend themselves and send signals to other plants to warn that danger is here, or near. ...
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Precision medicine

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Precision medicine is an approach to patient care that allows doctors to select treatments that are most likely to help patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease. This may also be called personalized medicine. PrecisionMed, Inc PrecisionMed, Inc. offers vital products and services facilitating breakthroughs in genetics, drug discovery, biomarker research, and molecular diagnostics. They offer high quality, accurately annotated human biological material and are the largest...
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Diagnosing Disease by Voice – using digital Bio-Markers to tell If You have a chronic disease

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Speech is a complex process that requires coordination with our brain, muscles, and respiratory system. Diagnosing Disease by Voice - using digital Bio-Markers to tell If You Have a Chronic Disease Biomarkers are patterns in your voice like pitch, tone, volume, rhythm and rate that can reveal a variety of health conditions. Many companies have started research to develop Biomarkers for early diagnosing. Research on - Automated assessment of psychiatric disorders usi...
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Serum Institute of India – world’s largest maker of vaccines

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Serum Institute of India is a manufacturer of immunobiological drugs including vaccines in the city of Pune, India. Serum Institute of India is ranked as India's No. 1 biotechnology company, manufacturing highly specialized life saving biologicals like vaccines using cutting edge genetic and cell based technologies, antisera and other medical specialties. Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. is now the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally (m...
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Amazon – DeepLens – a fully programmable video camera.

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AWS DeepLens - fully programmable video camera that allows - Developers to get started with deep learning through sample projects with practical, hands-on examples which can start running with a single click.Models trained in Amazon SageMaker can be sent to AWS DeepLens with just a few clicks from the AWS Management Console.AWS developers can run any deep-learning framework, including TensorFlow and Caffe. AWS DeepLens comes preinstalled with a high performance, efficient and optimised infe...
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Nano Dimension – Additively Manufactured Electronics. (3D printing technology for electronics components)

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Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) - 3D printing technology for electronics components Additive manufacturing machines can produce conductor, resistor, dielectric and semiconductor inks which can be processed to create both active and inert components. Shielding, antennas and sensors are just some of the types of electronic components which can be created. https://youtu.be/MDfSrb7FQ7w AME system adds more polymer and more conductive material layer-by-layer to create a 3D objec...
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The Aga Khan University’s Innovation Lab – 3D printed nasal swab

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Pakistan now has the ability to locally produce nasal swabs, the essential tool that collects samples for COVID-19 tests, after Aga Khan University successfully completed clinical trials on a 3D printed swab. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global surge in demand for diagnostic test kits and components, including the cotton bud-shaped nasal swabs, as countries around the world ramped up testing facilities. Pakistan was no different and has had to import all nasal swabs to date. ...
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‘Pillo Health’ – healthcare companion Robot

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Pillo is a healthcare companion. Pillo Health makes even the most complex health routines simple. Using a combination of adaptive AI and thoughtfully designed hardware, our proactive and secure digital health companion offers enterprise solutions that Bring Healthcare into the Home. Using the latest in voice and facial recognition technologies, Pillo can hear, see and understand you. This enables Pillio to adapt users functionalities to serve specific needs. e.g.: ensure that your medica...
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Sensely – Virtual Avatar Conversational AI Chat Bots

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Sensely is a developer of avatar and chatbot-based platform designed to assist insurance plan members and patients. Sensely's avatar and chatbot-based platforms assist insurance plan members and patients with the insurance services and healthcare resources they need, when they need it. With offices in London and San Francisco, Sensely's global teams provide virtual assistant solutions to insurance companies, pharmaceutical clients, and hospital systems worldwide. Using Sensely's platf...
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AKKIO – simple, visual, easy-to-use platform that enables anyone to build and deploy AI in minutes

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The promise of the AI Revolution is to tackle numerous, intractable problems across business, healthcare, science, education, government, transportation, and logistics to name just a few. Akkio makes it so that everyone has access to the same state-of-the-art AI capabilities, formerly only available to the largest corporations and most well funded research groups. No coding or data science neededFrom spreadsheet to AI in less than 5 minutes. Building and deploying AI models has ne...
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Infermedica – pre-diagnose, triage over smartphone to connect patients with the appropriate medical services.

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Infermedica, the Poland-founded health tech startup that offers an AI-driven platform for preliminary diagnosis and triage. Symptom Checker is a tool to assist patients in preliminary diagnosis. Using artificial intelligence to check symptoms, it then guides patients to the appropriate medical services. Infermedica tackles the problem of inappropriate use of medical services and misdiagnosis, providing insurance companies, hospitals, and health systems with a set of advanced prelimina...
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ResApp is developing smartphone applications for the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease.

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It will Instantly diagnose and manage respiratory disease using only a smartphone. It's machine learning algorithms use sound to diagnose and measure the severity of respiratory conditions without the need for additional hardware. Respiratory disease diagnosis using only the sound of a patient’s cough It will provide point of care diagnostic solutions for telehealth that will be easily integrated into existing platforms. ResApp Health Limited , a leading digital health company ...
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Binah.ai – SmartPhone Video-based Vital Signs Monitoring

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Binah.ai - Video Camera based Real-time, vital signs measurements using only a smartphone, laptop or tablet camera. From remote or on-premises. Just by looking at the device's camera. In less than two minutes. Binah.ai’ vital signs monitoring solutions remove the need for wearables to allow users to take more control of their personal wellbeing just by using a device they already have and constantly use – a smartphone camera. The unique mix of signal processing and AI technologies al...
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Google’s Dialogflow – natural language understanding platform for conversational user interface & interactive voice response system

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Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy to design and integrate a conversational user interface into your mobile app, web application, device, bot, interactive voice response system, and so on. Using Dialogflow, you can provide new and engaging ways for users to interact with your product. Dialogflow can analyze multiple types of input from your customers, including text or audio inputs (like from a phone or voice recording). It can also respond to your cus...
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Locusrobotics – Warehouse robots

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Locus Robotics’ innovative autonomous mobile robots make it easy to optimize your warehouse operation, respond to e-commerce volume growth and seasonal peaks while giving you control over your labor costs. LocusBots operate safely alongside people, making them more efficient and effective compared to traditional order fulfillment systems. Workers are able to fulfill more orders with less labor without the need to reconfigure or disrupt your warehouse. Complete, end-to-end syste...
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Kiwibot – robotics delivery

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Kiwibot provides a turnkey robotic delivery service for Restaurant chains, delivery apps & Governments. Last-mile delivery is incredibly expensive; we reduce cost of last mile delivery by 40% YoY, kiwibot team continue to work with the customers until we get to <$1. Cutting-edge behavioral neural network, Kiwibots are able to seamlessly mesh into the fabric of urban landscapes. https://youtu.be/iyO9TJHEQ7E Technology used by kiwibots, like Smart Brake and Street Crossing Mo...
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