An ethical framework on how human attitudes towards artificial intelligence and robotic beings should be guided from a moral point of view as a means to achieve a balance between both sides.
The SMR provides a reliable and sustainable energy source, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions as manufacturers seek cleaner and more energy-efficient operations in response to environmental concerns and stricter regulations.
A clean-up technique for the remediation of pollutants through biosynthetic nanoparticles. It can transform and detoxify pollutants by capturing metal ions and turning them into elementary compounds through enzymes generated by cells.
To create urban environments that are inclusive and supportive of both human and non-human life, this emerging framework integrates the legal and ethical recognition of the rights of animals, plants, and ecosystems.
Also known as autonomous cybersecurity, this approach employs advanced algorithms, machine learning, and AI to identify, analyse, and respond to threats at a speed and efficiency unattainable by human operators. As AI-powered threats grow, the rise of AI-driven defence strategies is critical.
Metamaterials that can react to changes in their physical environment. This unique behavior makes it useful for applications such as impact-resistant and shock-absorbing materials, protective clothing, and medical implants. There is also the potential for use in smart materials and sensors.
The collaborative robot is designed to perform tasks alongside its human counterpart, whether it's in assembly, material handling, or quality control. Cobots offer the possibility to adapt to changing production requirements quickly, allowing manufacturers to pivot their operations with ease.
Also known as power scavenging, this solution addresses the problem of reliance on finite energy sources like batteries and external power supplies. This technology aims to capture ambient energy from sources such as solar, thermal gradients, vibrations, and radiofrequency waves.
Also known as Cloud Robotics, this business model consists of renting machinery's time instead of buying the machine itself. Users can rent the machines in shared factory facilities; several companies in a subscription-based system can use each machine.
Also known as nanorobots or nanites, these microscopic robots operate at the nanoscale to perform tasks with unprecedented precision and efficiency. They aim to perform tasks such as targeted drug delivery in healthcare and enhancing environmental monitoring and remediation
Bioengineering solutions that involve hacking the dairy, leather and meat industries by using bacteria to "grow" synthetic versions of those commodities. Manufacturers could produce sustainable, animal-free versions of meat patties, milk, and other dairy products.
Passive and active sensors mounted on crewless aerial vehicles to capture data about Earth systems through electromagnetic spectrums. It allows the detection, visualization, and analysis of objects and elements on the Earth’s surface. This technology could be used for more efficient land use.
A real-time, panoramic view of enterprise operations and a project's life cycle. It can be formatted to consider different segments, scales, and challenges to deliver automation, visualization, and operational management, improving production quality and efficiency.
By achieving processing speeds of a quintillion operations per second, this innovation solves the limitation of processing massive, complex datasets and simulations with speed and accuracy. Exascale computing offers unparalleled processing power, handling the enormous computational demands.
Palm-sized drones that send high-resolution photos or videos directly to mobile devices in almost real-time. Serving as devices for monitoring, managing, and exploring both urban and rural areas, these drones can be easily controlled by smartphones.
A software that computationally understands human speech in text or audio format by evaluating the meaning and significance of words while completing tasks involving syntax, semantics, and discourse.
This approach harnesses the genius of nature to solve complex problems. By emulating nature's ingenious designs, biomimetics paves the way for innovative, eco-friendly materials, structures, mechanisms and processes, reducing the industry's environmental footprint.
By tracking consumption patterns through embedded sensors or blockchain nodes, connected appliances use algorithms to monitor and calculate operational needs.
This technology operates by leveraging complex machine learning models to generate new, unique data that mimics the characteristics of its training data. This includes text, images, videos, and even complex simulations.
This solution fosters innovation, efficiency and sustainability by reducing material waste, enabling rapid prototyping and enhancing customisation capabilities. This process involves building three-dimensional objects layer by layer instead of traditional subtractive manufacturing methods.
Artificially intelligent software used for data processing to tackle issues on sustainability, both in terms of natural resource protection and improvement of industrial and agricultural practices.
This solution, which includes various technical methods and approaches, directly addresses the critical problem of excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial activities and power generation.
A molecular printing technique able to inscribe or print in less than 100-nanometer resolution patterns onto surfaces, assisting with microfabrication applications.
This advanced remote sensing method uses laser pulses to measure distances and create highly accurate three-dimensional maps of the environment. These maps provide detailed spatial data that are invaluable for urban planning, transportation systems, and environmental management.
A computing system that enables local processing of data. It provides safer, latency-free responses to automated devices, such as factory machines, autonomous vehicles, and overall IoT ecosystems.
An essential approach to creating accessible and inclusive urban and digital environments. It aims to solve the problem of exclusion faced by individuals with disabilities, the elderly, and others with varying physical abilities, ensuring they can fully participate in urban and digital life.
By promoting the reuse, repurposing, and recycling of battery components, circular batteries aim to reduce electronic waste, decrease reliance on finite resources, and enhance the efficiency of resource use. Especially relevant in the electric vehicle and electronics sector.
Software powered by an AI algorithm capable of autonomously generating design solutions based on specific goals and restrains.
This chip-sized device mimics the dynamics of a living organ for safe and effective tests and improves the physiology of in-vitro models. It enables more efficient research approaches in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and chemicals.
Subatomic particles can exist in more than one state at any given time. Quantum computing takes advantage of this ability, allowing operations to be carried out significantly faster than with regular computers while also being able to store more information.
Powered by artificial intelligence, personal assistant software could provide instant 24/7 support autonomously based on the preferences and habits of their users. It could be a game changer for the hospitality sector to optimize customer experience since this software could speak many languages.
A diverse class of ultraporous and solid materials with extremely low densities, and thermal insulating properties, employed in biomimetic and biosensor applications, construction, water distillation, and fashion.
A blood-repellent titanium-based material that can repel virtually any liquid by roughening its surface with nanotubes. With potential medical implant applications, this material could reduce the risk of forming clots.
Augmented Reality (AR) models applied in workforce environments allowing professionals to interact with 1:1 scale 3D models of spaces, and pieces of materials in real-time. This solution helps lower on-site trip and maintenance costs while increasing operations accuracy.
Hollow carbon cylindrical tubes thinner than a strand of human hair that could be significantly stronger than steel. Great conductors of electricity and heat, nanotubes are compact, lightweight materials that have proven to provide a myriad of potential uses.
Interfaces based on conversational, natural language that allow users to talk to conversational robots in the same way they would with customer care employees. This protocol is cost-effective, time-efficient and could help businesses take customer engagement to the next level.
A mixed reality headset that allows different degrees of immersive reality experiences, from wholly inserted in a virtual space to digital content overlaid in the physical world.
A wearable machine that enhances human movement to perform repetitive motions or carry heavy objects. Powered by a system of electric motors, pneumatics, levers, and hydraulics, an exoskeleton allows limb movement with increased precision, strength, and endurance.
Cryptographically secure identification records allow users to control third-party transmissions and visibility of personal data. Based on the blockchain, this solution could help individuals to regain ownership of their own data, as it would serve as a single personal identity.
By using unique processes of encoding and decoding binary data to and from synthesized genetic code, it is possible to store enormous amounts of information in tiny volumes of DNA strands which can be kept in small, stable containers such as test tubes.
Remanufacturing is the circular process that involves restoring used or end-of-life products to a like-new condition. This strategy aims to extend a product's useful life while reducing waste and conserving resources.
A graphene-like material with unique electronic and optical properties, making it promising for applications such as field-effect transistors, sensors, and energy storage devices.
Potentially the world's most robust material, carbyne is a linear acetylenic carbon molecule: an infinitely long carbon chain. Its tensile strength is up to three times that of diamond and almost twice that of carbon nanotubes. It is also highly conductive, both thermally and electrically.
The use of a combination of ad-targeting, behavior tracking, natural language processing, and adaptive engagement scripts to target content specific to users. This type of software can aid brands to increase ad relevance and improve return on investment while amplifying customer loyalty.
An alternative to synthetic pesticides composed of active ingredients diluted into nanoemulsions and existing biopesticides. It controls insects, fungi, weeds, and other pests in an eco-friendly and economical approach.
Real-time monitoring combining IoT communication devices, and automatic parameter adjustments to remotely control, and maintain large and complex facilities. It provides an efficient solution to resource management, keeps track of costs, predicts flows, and increases decision-making efficiency.
Also known as metamaterial modeling, 4D Printing is a process similar to 3D Printing that precisely fabricates metamaterial objects that are able to change their shape in response to stimuli such as heat, moisture, or light.
Energy can be transmitted wirelessly through electromagnetic waves, reaching remote facilities and hard-to-reach areas such as islands or farms. It provides network resilience, even after natural disasters.
A nano-scale barcode system is used both to track cells in the human organism and to monitor commercial items along production and distribution chains. It is also being used in nature to supervise wildlife on land, in the air or water.
An alternative consensus algorithm to the Proof-of-Work model. It relies on market incentives instead of computing power to verify transactions, thus reducing energy consumption and improving safety in a more accessible and decentralized blockchain.
By creating a dynamic 3D model of a city's physical and functional characteristics, CIM integrates data from geographic information systems (GIS), building information modelling (BIM) and other sources. This unified digital representation provides an in-depth, real-time view of urban infrastructure.
An expansive technological framework that extends beyond the traditional Internet of Things (IoT) by integrating people, processes, data, and things into a comprehensive, interconnected network.
Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is a genome-editing technique generated through precise editing of an organism's native genome. It has relevant applications in biotechnology, medical research and therapies, and agricultural and livestock improvement.
Robots used in warehouses to assist humans in sorting and delivering items in the shortest amount of time possible. Further, this solution relieves workers from repetitive manual tasks, increasing efficiency.
A device embedded with sensors designed to physically interact with virtual objects and environments. It allows users to tactilely explore virtual data, enabling them to manage and change the properties of a virtual object through the movement of their fingers and hands.
A technology which could possibly reach human-level average capabilities in all imaginable areas, including social skills and creativity. It would act like a general-purpose agent with an artificial mind, comparable to that of a person.
Artificial data, often generated with the support of deep neural networks, allow the creation of highly realistic data sets based on existing data. This solution makes it possible to rely on Big Data while protecting the identity of people in a database and avoiding their reidentification.
By merging AI techniques and protein design, this technology accelerates the creation of tailored proteins with desired properties, addressing specific challenges in domains such as medicine and agriculture, and opening up new possibilities for drug discovery, materials science, and other fields.
To address resource depletion and waste management in urban environments, this approach focuses on the recovery of valuable materials from waste streams, including electronic waste (e-waste), construction and demolition debris, and end-of-life vehicles, among others.
A communication protocol for wireless communications technologies that support cellular data networks, expected to be around 1,000 times faster than 5G. Seamless interoperability with satellite, Wi-Fi, and fiber optics ensures consistent connectivity and broader coverage, especially in remote areas.
A device that uses optical absorption and emission lines to identify substances invisible to the naked eye. Applications range from surveillance to chemical analysis in laboratories, as well as soil conservation, food composition, water quality, and skin health maintenance.
Software that facilitates IT tasks for individuals with no or low coding literacy simplifying the app-building process with techniques like drag-and-drop functionality and visual guidance tools. It makes businesses more productive and agile, freeing IT teams to focus on more complex projects.
By combining computational fluid dynamics with machine learning and meteorological data-sources, this system steadily improves the ability and accuracy to forecast both weather and natural incidents with far-reaching results for individuals and businesses.
A computational method that optimizes crop growth. It collects data from real crops in the field and creates a mathematical model to simulate how yields perform under any given circumstance. This solution helps crops grow more efficiently.
A software providing a bridge between the digital and physical world by mirroring in the digital realm human interaction in the physical world. Spatial computing can include IoT, digital twins, and robotics to improve machines’ spatial understanding, or even a user's augmented reality experience.
Fully autonomous cars combining cameras and sensors that are in constant contact with the cloud which would replace current human-driven vehicles.
Structures used as urban gardens or greenhouses for in-city farming. Data acquired from sensors is fed back to the software, which determines with a high level of precision how to increase crop yields while using no pesticides and less water and lower transportation emissions and costs.
A wireless earbud that translates Arabic, Mandarin, Finnish, and many other languages in real-time, presenting a unique opportunity to help achieve universal accessibility for people with disabilities and also overcome communication barriers in the tourism and hospitality industries.
An easy-to-program multi-disciplinary robot designed to perform a wide range of tasks in a given environment. Its versatility, adaptability and ability to work collaboratively alongside humans make it a promising technology for the future of work.
Distributed social networks offer a decentralised approach to social media, addressing key issues prevalent in traditional, centralised platforms, such as privacy concerns, data control, and the monopolisation of digital communication spaces.
This neural implant is a surgically introduced device made up of advanced microelectrodes that can capture and translate brain stimuli. It could enhance the treatment of nervous-system injuries, diseases, or psychiatric conditions and be used for brain-computer interfaces.
An advanced version of graphene, graphyne could conduct electrons to travel faster; a property that could possibly make the substance much more directly applicable to electronics than graphene itself.
Biometric technologies that recognize the identity and emotional state of a human face through facial features by measuring individual characteristics. For many sectors, this software can enable more security through authentication procedures, prevent fraud and speed up check-in procedures.
Smart appliances secured by blockchain-based protocols implemented to improve decentralization, security, and privacy gaps found within the systems of the Internet of Things. It could enable applications in supply chain management, smart homes, smart cities, energy, agriculture, and healthcare.
A movement that aims to incorporate technology into data acquisition, taking into account every aspect of daily life. The data inputs range from the amount of food consumed, quality of surrounding air to physical states such as mood, arousal, blood oxygen levels, and mental and physical health.
AMS integrates advanced sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) to automate the monitoring, diagnosis, and repair of essential urban infrastructure such as water systems, transportation networks, and energy grids.
A category of materials derived from renewable biological sources, such as plants, fungi, and micro-organisms, as an alternative to those derived from fossil fuels.
This solution addresses the vulnerability of current cryptographic systems — such as those protecting online banking, emails, healthcare, smart cities and sensitive government communications — by developing encryption algorithms that quantum computers cannot easily crack.
Electronic devices designed with advanced flexible substrates that allow for bending, stretching, rolling, folding, and conforming to different shapes without losing functionality.
The next frontier on the human-machine interface, BCI involves hardware and software communication systems such as electrodes, implants, or unique headbands that allow external devices to be controlled through brain activity.
Carbon credits implemented as a currency or tokens stored in the blockchain that create economic benefit, capital, and demand for emissions reductions. It brings transparency, trust, and scalability to carbon markets.
This interdisciplinary field of medicine is focused on stimulating the body's own repair mechanisms to functionally heal previously irreparable tissues or organs.
A cognitive twin is a digital entity mounted with decision-making faculties. Beyond simulating physical objects through digital replicas similar to digital twins, a cognitive twin can self-improve and operate autonomously.
While bias is inherently present in data used by algorithms already deeply embedded in our lives, bias detection algorithms, equipped with metrics related to fairness, can help mitigate this issue. Overall, this algorithm detects unfair coded bias.
A cyber-secured, digitally controlled system that communicates and shares information between producers, distributors, and customers, in order to organize and provide ultra-high efficiency supply-demand energy transmission to end consumers while increasing reliability and reducing cost.
This solution requires collaborative efforts with Indigenous communities and the integration of ancestral knowledge, insights, and lived experiences into modern living. By leveraging centuries-old practices and ecological knowledge, this solution offers sustainable resource management techniques.
Made from lightweight, flexible, or biocompatible material, these morphological robots can bend and stretch. They are made to navigate in complex environments such as the human body or hazardous territory.
Artificially or synthetically created substances with the ability to automatically repair damage without an external diagnosis or any human intervention.
A large number of unified robots, working together by sensing, communicating, and reacting to each other's actions in real-time.
Essentially miniature chips, this solution addresses a critical bottleneck in computational efficiency and power consumption. Chiplets are a novel approach to semiconductor design that eschews the traditional monolithic chip architecture.
Also known as Sustainable or Circular Chemistry, Green Chemistry is a multidisciplinary approach that promotes the development of environmentally friendly alternatives to existing chemical processes, fostering a more sustainable and circular economy.
A complex digital immersive environment accessed by people using avatars that react in real-time to the user's motion and expressions. People could use it for work, entertainment, social interaction or creative purposes.
Nano-sealing material in which nanostructures build a consistent network of molecules on a surface to make it super-hydrophobic or super-hydrophilic to block out any substance and to protect the surface.
A torus-shaped vacuum chamber containing hydrogen atoms can produce a virtually unlimited amount of low-carbon energy when placed under extreme pressure and high temperatures.
