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Israel’s Verobotics (see previously) has just won a $5.4 million contract for its AI-powered vertical robots to clean and inspect the exterior of high-rise buildings in Hong Kong.

Israel’s Inuitive (see previously) has partnered Finland’s Visidon to co-develop and launch a high performing, accurate, and real-time low light enhancement to Inuitive’s NU4100 vision-on-chip processor. It will reduce the cost of systems (e.g., night drones) that relied on powerful sensors.

More details on the pilot projects for autonomous buses reported previously . The first will be a driverless shuttle service managed by Israel’s Nateev Express at the Sheba Medical Center. Israel’s Imagry (see previously) is to deploy its map-less autonomous driving software.

Israel’s Arbe Robotics (see previously) has launched its latest feature – imaging to give a 360° radar-based perception, the first AI based integrated analysis of a complete vehicle surroundings. Arbe won a 2023 CES Innovation Award – for the second year in a row.

Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has signed an agreement with Israel’s Prisma Photonics (see previously). The PrismaFlow system will use optical fibers to monitor 1,000 km of the national transmission grid - some 20% of the total grid. It already monitors gas pipeline segments in Israel.

The Israeli startups receiving funds from the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation include Amarel, Apeiro Motion, , Cielo Inertial, , , , and Xerient (pancreatic cancer).

As reported previously, Israel will be investing NIS 600 million in space technology in the next five years. Here are some more details of Israel’s outer space plans.

The Israeli Export Institute’s pavilion was in the middle of the show floor within CES’s startup pavilion, Eureka Park, and it was buzzing! It contained a dozen startups representing a cross-section of Israeli innovations and was probably the busiest of all the booths. The video features Mobileye.

Technion scientists have discovered another way to obtain energy from plants (see for a previous method). They created a biological solar cell that generated “green” electricity through photosynthesis, collecting electrons that are naturally transported within plant cells, without affecting the plant’s growth.

Israel’s Griiip (see previously) hit a significant milestone at the OTT SportsPro ceremony in November, winning the prestigious award for 'Best Start-Up Tech Company'.  Griiip’s RAMP Racing Media Platform provides real-time data to motorsport fans, the media, gaming industry, and OEMs.