Concept: American startup Gardyn has rolled out a fully automated AI-based vertical indoor growing system. The new system is a ‘hybriponic’ indoor gardening system that recirculates water in a closed-loop, thereby reducing water usage considerably. The system incorporates the features of aeroponic and hydroponic technology and leverages AI technology to analyze and optimize plant growth. Nature …

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Concept: Singapore’s startup AirCarbon has launched AirCarbon Exchange, a central marketplace for the trading of carbon credits using AirCarbon Token. It leverages blockchain architecture to create securitized carbon credits. Nature of Disruption: AirCarbon Exchange creates a hybrid, decentralized platform, mirroring the commodity markets. It simplifies and automates manual processes associated with OTC (over-the-counter) carbon trading. …

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Concept: Japanese telecommunications company NTT Docomo (Docomo) has rolled out a new blade-free and blimp-type drone that can fly silently without using propeller blades. The new drone is equipped with a high-resolution video camera that can capture high-quality video. This can be used at events for aerial videography as well as a surrealistic standalone attraction. …

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Concept: American Texas A&M University researchers have developed a technique involving a ‘plug-in’ preconditioning process that uses agriculture byproducts of corn stubble, grasses, and mesquite to produce sustainable bioplastics. This project received funding from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office. Nature of Disruption: The plug-in preconditioning processes of …

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Concept: Lidl Northern Ireland (Lidl) and McCulla Transport (McCulla), a Lisburn logistics company have co-launched a fully green transport fleet powered by waste-to-energy generation. The new sustainable transport fleet aims to deliver better efficiencies and reduces Lidl’s carbon emissions of these vehicles by 93%. Nature of Disruption: The new green transport fleet consists of eight …

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Concept: American enterprise-grade service startup Solo.io (Solo) has introduced an enterprise platform that integrates its cloud-native API gateway, Gloo Edge, with its service mesh named Gloo mesh. The integration eases up the setup of the platform and it configures all services in the cloud that are running on Kubernetes. Nature of Disruption: Gloo Edge is …

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Concept: Salesforce has announced contemporary AI-powered automation and digital channel technologies for Service Cloud to boost features for service agents and customers. The first group of tools attempts to forecast, route, and address customer demands, while the second set — audio, video, and text capabilities for digital contact centers — allows consumers to contact them …

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Concept: Royal Navy of the UK has introduced a robotic boat to quickly survey uncharted waters and gather data. RS Aqua and Maritime Robotics have supplied the USV Otter Pro boat to Royal Navy. The USV was tested on Horsea Lake at the Defence Diving School, Portsmouth, UK. Nature of Disruption: The Otter Pro is …

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Concept: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has developed a project called DeeperSense that combines visual and acoustic sensors with AI to improve the environmental perception of the robotic underwater vehicle. The project aims to improve the perception of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) in three use cases, namely diver monitoring in turbid waters, seabed …

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Concept: Seattle-based agricultural robotics startup Carbon Robotics has developed an autonomous robot that lasers to zap weeds. Integrated with computer vision, the weeders can clear out around 100,000 weeds an hour. The startup aims to aid farmers looking to discard undesired plants without using herbicides. Nature of Disruption: Carbon Robotics provides chemical-free, no-till weed management …

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