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Israeli air-quality app BreezoMeter has added a second consecutive Red Herring award to its industry prizes. (see previous ). It was again placed in Red Herring’s European Top 100 in the “cleantech” category. Also, it received a new EU Horizon 2020 grant to work with the Max Planck Institute.

Students from Israel‘s Technion Institute faculty of aerospace engineering conducted a successful maiden test flight of the A3TB (Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Testbed). The aircraft weighs 10 kg., has a 3m flexible wingspan and is printed entirely on a 3D printer.

The media recently announced what it called “Israel’s first 3D-printed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)”. Very impressive, but regular newsletter readers will know that Israel’s Stratasys printed one back in 2015. It was even unveiled at the Dubai Airshow!

Israel’s OneView uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze satellite and aerial images. It can recognize any specific object on the images and will tag them all if required for further investigation.

Scientists at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center have sent into space an experiment into combatting resistant bacteria under micro-gravity. The experiment was included in a micro-lab built by Israel’s SpacePharma and launched on an Arianespace Vega rocket from French Guiana on 18 Jun.

Israel’s Pudding.ai (founded as Nowtecc Technologies) generates insights and answers questions in real-time on companies’ social media accounts. These include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

Israel’s Cobra Group (L.D. Israel Auto Equipment) has launched DOORe, a smart-lock home entrance security system that eliminates the need for house keys. The homeowner uses an app, and previously scanned fingerprints, to authorize anyone to open the front door at a specific time.

Israel’s Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering has teamed up with Milan University and Cambridge University to build the Afeka app. It compares a few sentences and coughs with templates for positive and negative coronavirus patients to identify infected patients.

Israel’s Agrobics (reported previously) purifies wastewater, producing energy to power the process. Its reactor uses anaerobic bacteria Archaea to eat pollutants, clean the water and excrete biogas. It has 3 Israeli test sites and a to build one in California with US firm Bennett & Bennett.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University simulated lightening by exposing two different metals to different levels of humidity. They found that voltage develops when humidity rises above 60%. It opens the possibility for developing renewable energy batteries that can be charged from water vapor in the air.