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Israel’s Wisesight uses AI to help parking system subscribers avoid fines for not activating their payment service. It also helps cities reduce traffic jams, remove parking meters and optimize parking spots.

Another Israeli startup Yoran Imaging uses military thermal imaging technology and Artificial Intelligence to ensure products are packaged flawlessly. It is used by Nestle, PepsiCo and soon Colgate. Yoran has also received a $1 million grant from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 initiative.

Israel’s Plastopil based on Kibbutz Hazorea has been manufacturing 100% recyclable thin, flexible packaging for the chilled food industry since 1960. It now has a presence in more than 20 countries.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have engineered the thinnest piece of technology - layers of Boron and Nitrogen just two atoms thick. Electricity causes the layers to slide and can be used to control advanced electronic devices.

Israel’s AutoBrains (formerly ) is partnering vehicle products maker Continental AG to bring its “unsupervised learning” technology to market. AutoBrains develops Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that process signals from the car's environment and learn in a similar way to human drivers.

This article focuses on some of the 50 Israeli startups that have been developing practical uses for AR - Augmented Reality. Applications include repairing a patient’s eye socket (see ); personal shopping (Mixed Place - see ) and Lumus (see ) who manufacture the AR glasses themselves.

Israel’s CyberMDX (see previously) has finished its 18-month project to protect the systems at Michigan Medicine. It is now being deployed at the 26 hospitals of Michigan’s MetroHealth. CyberMDX now protects millions of medical devices and IoT devices around the world.

Israel National Drone Network Initiative has entered its second phase (see previously). Unmanned aircraft will fly across the skies of Hadera, delivering goods to the city’s residents. The project’s aim is eventually to relieve road congestion and deliver urgent supplies quickly.

A consortium including Israel’s ECOncrete (see previously) has won European funding for a large-scale “Living Ports” project at the Port of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. ECOncrete will build a sea wall, support for the observation deck, and units for coastal stabilization and habitat creation.

Israel’s Soroka Medical Center and Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary Elta have set up a joint innovation center to take defense technologies and convert them into new medical technologies. During the coronavirus pandemic, IAI built ventilators and patient monitors.