Israel Active

Israel’s UBQ Materials has won an innovation award in the Speculative Design category at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event. Its recycled waste-derived thermoplastic can be used in the 3D printing industry, which currently relies on non-recycled oil-based thermoplastic.

Israel’s Bright Data (see previously) helps companies gather commercial information on the internet. Its product enables customers to see the internet how they choose. So, a farmer can monitor customers, analyze weather conditions and view consumer sentiment about its products.

Israel’s Brain.Space will test its electroencephalogram (EEG) enabled helmet on astronauts (including Israel’s Eytan Stibbe) on the 3rd April SpaceX shuttle flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It will be the world’s first test of the effect of microgravity on the brain.

Israel’s TankU uses AI and computer vision to monitor vehicles and enable refueling, charging, and washing. At Israel’s Sonol's gas stations, a customer selects to pay through the app, is identified next to the pump or charge point, confirms the operation with a click and then begins refueling. Totally self-service.

On International Day of Forests (21st Mar) Israel’s Technion Institute reported on Israel’s Blue White Robotics (see previously), founded by two graduates of the Technion. The latest article explains how its tractors use sensor technology to operate autonomously.

Israel’s PLANETech and KKL-JNF are launching the Climate Solutions Prize, aiming to identify technologies that tackle extreme weather events. Israeli companies can present their solutions to predict, prevent, manage & recover from wildfires, floods, storms, extreme heat, etc.

On 13th Apr (at noon ET) Ben Gurion University is hosting a Zoom webinar entitled “How Israel is Leading the Way in Water Renewal” featuring BGU’s Professor Edo Bar-Zeev. He will share his latest research on desalination and the aquatic environment.

Israel’s Ayala Water & Ecology (see previously) has 26 years of experience in the field of phytoremediation - the use of plants to extract and remove elemental pollutants from water. Ayala received an EU Horizon 2020 innovation award to adapt its technology for the EU market.

Two Israelis (out of 15 worldwide) have been selected as Apple Scholars in AI / Machine Learning for 2022. Moshe Shenfeld is studying privacy-preserving machine learning at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also, Noam Razin of Tel Aviv University for fundamentals of machine learning

PepsiCo has partnered Israeli low-cost irrigation tech company N-Drip (see previously) to help farmers worldwide adopt water efficiency technology.  N-Drip is currently being used in farms in 17 countries around the world, including several in the crops of PepsiCo suppliers.