2023 Innovation Showcase Participants

* denotes 2023 Innovation Award Winner

• Showcase Participants with Industry Area: Manufacturing, Instrumentation and Maturity: Prototype

• GEM

  Los Angeles, CA

  gotothegem.com/

  Allow the user to perform over 300 functional exercises with only one small peice of equipment.

  The Gem is a omni-idirectional, low profile board that with a switch of a latch can become a stable non-movable platform for incorporation a completely different set of movements along with bands.

• Hong Kong Industrial Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Centre (FLAIR)

  Hong Kong, /

  www.hkflair.org/

  AI-Based Quality Prediction and Root Cause Analysis System

  The invention pertains to an AI-based system for analyzing various data obtained in previously executed manufacturing operations for performing product quality prediction and root cause analysis to determine possible root causes for production deviation resulted in a manufacturing process.

• Hong Kong Industrial Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Centre (FLAIR)

  Hong Kong, /

  www.hkflair.org/

  Interactive Control System for Robot Manipulation with AR Technology

  With intuitive interaction through AR glass, the human operator can monitor as well as control the industrial robot arm both on-site and remotely. Robotic tasks can be demonstrated by human in the augmented reality environment and the skill can be transferred directly to the robot arm for task execution.

• Oregon State University

  CORVALLIS, OR

  engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/chih-hung-alex-chang

  Nanomand

  Nanomand is a nanomaterial enabler; we produce functional nanobuilding blocks on demand using our novel microreactor-assisted printhead to enable our customers to manufacture nanomaterial-enhanced functional components and devices for a clean future.

• Quantica GmbH

  Berlin, Berlin

  www.quantica3d.com/

  NovoJet Printhead Technology

  NovoJet Printhead Technology is categorized by its ability to print industrial-grade, high-performance materials together in a single process for a wide range of 2D and 3D printed applications. Multi-material dentures being one of the first applications currently being developed with this technology.

• RVmagnetics, a.s.

  Kosice, .

  www.rvmagnetics.com

  passive contacless MicroWire sensor (based on bistable magnetic microwires)

  sensing technology based on bistable magnetic microwires utilising proprietary sensing method (patent application 4/22) allowing to overcome sensing obstacles in challenging environments (chemically aggressive environments, strong electric and magnetic fields, sensing in rotary equipment, design limitations). allowing contactless, realtime sensing of temperature, pressure, postion, vibration when (micro)size matters.

• Stanford University - Office of Technology Licensing

  Redwood City, CA

  otl.stanford.edu/

  Steerable Spherical Wheel Based Dexterous Hand for Object Grasping and Within-Hand Manipulation

  The Salisbury lab has developed a dexterous robotic hand with active fingertip surfaces for grasping and manipulation.

• Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers, Inc.

  Tampa, FL

  www.tampadeepsea.com

  Compact subsea lidar for micro/mini ROVs and AUVs

  We are developing a low cost underwater lidar system for use on small ROVs and AUVs. The lidar being developed is an RGB lidar which can produce a 3D color image of the ocean bottom. This is useful for subsea mapping, exploration, and conservation.

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  www.polyu.edu.hk

  Mutual cognitive human-robot collaborative manufacturing system

  This innovation provides a reliable and efficient intelligent system for intuitive human-robot collaboration in many flexible manufacturing applications. It can achieve: 1) accurate holistic scene understanding of human intention, robot status, object and working environment; 2) safe human-robot interactions with adaptive strategies, and 3) vision-based cognitive human-robot planning.

• University of Minnesota

  Minneapolis, MN

  license.umn.edu/

  Low temperature coating of metals and their oxides

  Depositing noble metals like platinum on surfaces is a costly and complex step for industries manufacturing catalytic products. This technology allows thin-film deposition of refractory, noble metals or their metal-oxides at temperatures below 100 C in a simple and controlled manner, while current techniques require over 2000 C.

• University of Pennsylvania-Penn Center for Innovation

  Philadelpjia, PA

  pci.upenn.edu

  Simultaneous Imaging and Friction Measurement with In-Situ Tribometer

  This new device combines a tribometer’s ability to measure coefficient of friction with an AFM probe’s ability to directly image the topology of surfaces with nanometer resolution with minimum exposure of samples to the environment. See US patent #10,908,069.