Author Archives: MichaelOrdman

Clean energy

Three Israeli solar panel cleaning startups have been reported previously in this newsletter. Bladeranger, Ecoppia, and NaanDanJain. Now there’s a fourth – Airtouch Solar, which uses an air blower to lift and push the dust forward horizontally along arrays of … Continue reading

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R&D priorities

Israel’s National Council for Research and Development has added food tech, renewables, bioengineering, space tech and blue tech to its 14 civilian R&D priorities for the next five years. They already included AI, data science and quantum computing. It will … Continue reading

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Training for 10,000

Palo Alto Networks, Insight Partners, and executives from across the high-tech industry are establishing PLACE-IL – a new platform for recruiting and training employees. Its goal is to train 10,000 high-tech workers from underrepresented Israeli sectors such as Arabs, ultra-Orthodox, … Continue reading

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The most US patents

With 63 approved US patents, Israel’s Technion Institute is 40th in the world and number one in Europe. It ranks higher than the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and other well-established and well-known universities. Tel Aviv University was ranked at … Continue reading

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Road safety

When a sink hole appeared in Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway, the highway authority called in Israel’s Exodigo (see here previously) to perform an underground scan. The multi-sensing artificial intelligence platform helped identify corrective actions to reinforce the road against further … Continue reading

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Robotic farming

At Calcalist’s Mind the Tech 2022 Conference in New York, Eyal Desheh, of Tevel Aerobotics Technologies (see here previously) explained why automation was essential in front line agriculture. “People just don’t want to do work in agriculture anymore”, he stated. … Continue reading

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Robotics as a service

Israel’s 1MRobotics is developing small, automated, robotic dark stores that can meet the requirements of companies who wish to provide “last mile” delivery and distribution services to customers. 1MRobotics’ storage and retrieval operations require a minimal (often zero) workforce. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj60t0hzj … Continue reading

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Intelligent automated responses

Israel’s Tymely has developed an AI-based outsourced contact center that sends intelligent tailored responses to customer correspondence. It even follows company policies on compensation or discounts when processing customer complaints, freeing employees to focus on new business. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sydvz5r11s https://www.tymely.ai/

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Distance learning for Ukrainian teachers

Israeli-founded Viber (see here previously), owned by Japan’s Rakuten, has developed “Teach the Teachers”- a chatbot to support remote education of Ukrainian teachers and students. The free 10-module course includes organizing homework, motivation, and monitoring attendance. https://nocamels.com/2022/09/israeli-app-ukrainian-teachers-free-course%ef%bf%bc/

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A better meat alternative

Israel’s Meala FoodTech produces “functional proteins” for plant-based meat alternatives. They replace methylcellulose and other hydrocolloid and gums widely used in meat alternatives as binding and gelling agents. The result is a more natural product, but with a better meat-like … Continue reading

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