Israel Active

At Israel's 2024 Infrastructure, Energy, and Transportation Conference, Israel’s Gadfin (see previously) exhibited its hydrogen-powered long-range UAVs / drones which transports medical supplies up to 150kg to hospitals. In Croatia, Gadfin’s delivery network connects the country’s 50 islands.

Israel’s Sentrycs & Israel’s Third Eye are jointly developing a next-generation drone identification solution. It combines Sentrycs’ cutting-edge passive drone detection technology with Third Eye’s advanced Electro-Optic imaging systems. It can also detect if a drone has a payload..

After Oct 7, Israel’s National Drone Initiative had to change direction and start registering active drones on a live network. The 11 drone companies involved have run more than 24,000 test flights in experiments of increasing difficulty to learn how a drone delivery network could be feasible.

US rideshare firm Lyft is teaming up with Jerusalem-based self-driving tech Mobileye, and Israeli smart dashcam startup Nexar (see previously) to pilot Toyota Sienna robotaxis in Atlanta in 2025. Nexar’s video telematics aims to detect dangers on the road in real time.

Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a software package that enables computers to perform processing operations directly in memory, bypassing the CPU.

Intel has just launched its Israeli-developed Arrow Lake –codename for Intel’s 15th generation Core Ultra Series 2 microprocessors.  They are successors to Lunar Lake (see previously), Meteor Lake, and Raptor Lake (13th & 14th generations). Desktop AI computers are now planned.  (Deep tech review of Arrow Lake)

NASA is to integrate cameras from Israel’s Odysight.ai (see previously) into its hypersonic aerospace vehicles. Odysight’s systems will monitor any damage to the aerospace vehicles parts during flight trials. E.g. the Mach 5 X-43A hypersonic research aircraft.

It’s hard to keep up with Technion Professor Marcelle Machluf. Back in 2022 she was developing the NanoGhost anti-cancer therapy (see previously). Now she has launched Meatafora - a startup that cultivates vegan meat from plant-based cells.

The technology of Israel’s TextRe transforms mixed synthetic polymers (e.g. nylon and polyester) found in textile waste into ecofriendly recycled raw material that manufacturers can use to make high-value and cost-effective sustainable products. TextRe is representing Israel at COP29 Azerbaijan.

Dr. Yossi Rabinovitch of Israel’s Ariel University has developed patented technology to help identify the origin of a diamond and help stabilize the gemstone industry. Using advanced spectroscopy and imaging, his method quickly analyzes fluorescence patterns under UV or laser light.