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Israel’s Kubiya (see previously) helps software developers by taking away many of the repetitive tasks, allowing the user to focus on strategic tasks. Kubiya’s conversational AI assistant “Teammates” allows software engineers to provide instructions through human-like conversations.

Israel’s Elsight (see previously) has developed a communications system called Halo that allows drone operators to control drones, robots or critical application, even when they are beyond the line of sight. On Oct 8, Elsight provided its system to the IDF free of charge.

Israel’s Airwayz (see previously) has become one of the most commonly used unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems worldwide. At Rotterdam port, the busiest port in the world, Airwayz coordinates 60 drone operators serving 3,000 companies.

The technology of Australian-U.S.-Israeli-based Mobilicom (see previously) has been fitted on search-and-rescue dogs in Gaza. Mobilicom also delivers medical equipment, protects electrical lines, and monitors agricultural fields.

Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that the Eilat sponge Theonella conica contains the bacterium, Entotheonella sp. This acts as a “detoxifying organ” converting poisons and metal pollutants into harmless minerals. It may lead to new water treatment solutions.

The new half-billion-shekels Haarazim transportation hub has opened in Jerusalem on Route 1. It includes 12 bus platforms servicing Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Netanya, Safed, Haifa, Rehovot, and more. It has 215 rapid electric bus charging stations, and a 200,000 sq. ft “green roof".

Following the life-saving innovations developed by female students at Jerusalem College of Technology’s Hack.Her.IT competition (see previously), the men had a go at JCT’s 8th annual Great Minds Hackathon. The winner, Campaign Matcher, built an AI web-based fundraising support platform.

Israel’s Pickommerce (see previously) has developed PickoBot – a robot that can pick and place inventory in a warehouse. It uses a computer vision system powered by machine learning that enables the safe and intelligent packaging of objects of different sizes, weights and textures.

At the UK’s Farnborough Airshow, Elbit Systems displayed its advanced helmets. The modular X-Sight for helicopter pilots delivers a crisp, clear, and precise AI image. The Zero G represents a significant upgrade to the advanced helmet used by F-35 pilots worldwide.

Israel annually produces some 7,000 new engineering graduates, compared to Iran’s 234,000. However, Ami Moyal, President of Tel Aviv’s Afeka Academic College of Engineering is sure that the Israeli focus on innovation and entrepreneurship gives Israel the advantage.