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woman suffering from gastro intestinal disorder
Opinion

Ending the frustration and suffering of unexplained gastric symptoms

15th Sep 2022

Stomach disorders have remained among the most impenetrable areas for medical diagnostics. Medtech start-up Alimetry aims to improve the diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases with their non-invasive Gastric Alimetry™ solution.

  • AI & Analytics
  • Digital health
  • Human factors
  • Sensing
  • Strategic advice
Child undergoing examination for an ear infection
Opinion

The inspiring personal story behind a game-changing solution to glue ear in children

12th Sep 2022

Singapore company NousQ has created a robotic, automated, sensor-controlled, handheld applicator called CLiXX® that promises to revolutionize ventilation ear tube surgery for children.

  • Human factors
  • Innovation management
  • Product realisation
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
SharpArrow - Improving patient safety with safe surgical lasers and operations
Opinion

Improving patient safety with safe surgical lasers and operations

31st Aug 2022

SharpArrow Medical is an innovator and developer of laser-based medical devices and equipment and is one of a cohort of innovative companies being mentored by CC as part of MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific. Here we highlight why SharpArrow was shortlisted for MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific.

  • Sensing
  • Strategic advice
Stato report
Report

Move over LiDAR, mmWave radar is here

27th May 2022

Multiple industries are increasingly frustrated by the prohibitive cost and excessive timeframes of obtaining real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. Using simulated environments - specifically mmWave radar simulation - to train machine learning models slashes the need for real-world data collection and provides a platform for rare use cases. This innovation briefing further explores the potential of mmWave radar simulation to reduce autonomous machine costs and enable greater levels of autonomy.

  • AI & Analytics
  • Augmented reality & virtual reality
  • Sensing
The Engine venture ecosystem
Opinion

CC and The Engine venture ecosystem: an alignment of ambition

28th Apr 2022

We're ramping up our commitment to The Engine, the ambitious venture capital firm spun out of MIT to support ‘Tough Tech’ companies and solve key challenges in climate change, human health and advanced systems.

  • AI & Analytics
  • Bioinnovation
  • Connectivity & IoT
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
Nanophotonics
Opinion

Collaborating with Cambridge University on a breakthrough in advanced optical sensing

7th Apr 2022

The ability to count and track individual units of light can have an exciting range of applications across medtech and beyond, as a recent collaboration with Cambridge University has proved. Principal electronics engineer Oliver Hicks explains more…

  • Electronics & ASICs
  • Optics
  • Physical sciences
  • Sensing
  • Signal processing
 regenerative agriculture and carbon capture
Opinion

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit gets down to business on regenerative agriculture and carbon capture

30th Mar 2022

The tangible sense of joy in being able to interact with people face-to-face at last week’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit soon switched to a business-like determination to confront the big issues of the day.  I had plenty of lively discussions about forward strategies as the industry comes to grips with the challenges – and vast opportunities – of doing the right thing for both business and the planet.

  • AI & Analytics
  • Sensing
  • Strategic advice
autonomous system development
Opinion

Is highly equivalent simulation the answer to faster autonomous system development?

21st Mar 2022

Simulation is only as good as its approximation to the real world… its ‘equivalence’ in technical terms. We’ve been looking at how using intelligent simulation with a modular framework can deliver results faster to drive autonomous system development forward. 

  • AI & Analytics
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
Autonomous mobile robots
Vlog

Autonomous mobile robots navigating dynamic environments

18th Mar 2022

The world is about to experience significant progress in AI-enabled autonomous mobile systems. Could autonomous mobile robots navigating dynamic environments open up new automation opportunities for industry?

  • AI & Analytics
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
  • Tracking & location
warehouse and logistics automation
Opinion

Facing up the scalability challenge in warehouse and logistics automation

8th Dec 2021

The rate of innovation and adoption of automation & autonomous systems in non-manufacturing segments is growing faster and investments are pouring in. AMR’s (Automated Mobile Robots) are working alongside people in warehouses and helping in improving productivity. But, is this enough?

  • AI & Analytics
  • Product realisation
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
Data analytics is the key to unlocking new revenue streams from carbon farming
Opinion

Data analytics is the key to unlocking new revenue streams from carbon farming

16th Nov 2021

With the Cop26 summit in Glasgow providing a noisy, politically charged backdrop via the mainstream media, there was a real sense of relevance and urgency in the air as I contributed to last week’s virtual REAP Conference, organised by Agri-TechE.

  • AI & Analytics
  • Innovation management
  • Robotics
  • Sensing
  • Sustainability
Unlocking Human-Machine Understanding through real-time emotional state monitoring
Opinion

Unlocking Human-Machine Understanding through real-time emotional state monitoring

7th Nov 2021

The extraordinary potential of what we might term empathic technology promises rich human/machine relationships that are almost unimaginable. 

  • AI & Analytics
  • Digital service innovation
  • Sensing