6 emerging robotics and automation trends May 18, 2021 | City Talk The Rewired investment fund focuses on enabling the new economy by investing in the next generation of smart robotics. Backed by technology investors including Tej Kohli, Rewired invests across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and localisation. Here we reveal six emerging trends that are shaping the robotics and automation industry during 2021. 1. Medium [...]
Addressing wavering public trust in novel new biotechnologies May 18, 2021 | City Talk Biotechnology is now progressing so quickly that it is becoming too complex and fast-changing for the general public to keep abreast with. One of the major problems with the growing deficit in biological literacy is that misinformation fills the vacuum where understanding ought to be, further compounding the problem. The COVID vaccine has been a [...]
Nine technologies imagined in SciFi that actually became a reality May 17, 2021 | City Talk Some say that imagination is a form of prediction. Through deep analysis Rewired seeks to back the deep tech ventures that will unlock an artificial intelligence revolution with the backing of investors such as technologist Tej Kohli. We aim to ‘get in early’ when investing across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and [...]
Solving the efficiency problem at the heart of AI May 13, 2021 | City Talk Our Switzerland-based investment fund focuses on investing in the technologies that can help to unlock an artificial intelligence revolution. Backed by prominent investors such as technologist Tej Kohli*, we invest across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and localization; and we also back frontier applications which combine AI with new innovations such [...]
The human genome project – From then to now May 12, 2021 | City Talk Around 64 years ago, a group of scientists took biology to the next level: the molecular level. This provided us with revelations about the structure of the DNA helix and how genetic information flows through cells. Thus, molecular biology came into being. Following this huge success, the early 1970s marked the emergence of two historical [...]
Are we working more than ever? May 12, 2021 | City Talk Furlough and working-from-home have dispersed workers into a diverse range of new working patterns. Social media is filled with anecdotes from workers who start their day late and finish early but still get more done by virtue of not having to commute to an office. There are those who have already returned to and embraced [...]
The promise of CRISPR for curing congenital eye disorders May 11, 2021 | City Talk Genome editing is emerging as a powerful tool with the potential to eliminate a range of genetic disorders. Now the CRISPR-cas9 gene-editing tool, which is adapted from the bacterial anti-viral defense system, has broken new scientific ground by being directly administered into the body of live patients for the first time, in an attempt to [...]
Do no harm: An interview with David Newns April 29, 2021 | City Talk Are successful entrepreneurs born with it, or made through their circumstances? In David Newns’ case, it was a bit of both. The son of a biscuit factory worker, growing up in a poor part of Blackpool, from an early age Newns had a goal to be financially independent. Now 36, Newns has founded and helmed [...]
How curing cataracts offers a 1,500% socio-economic return April 27, 2021 | City Talk According to the World Health Organisation, 95 million people worldwide are affected by blindness or severe visual impairment due to cataracts. Cataracts are disproportionately prevalent in low-and-middle-income countries, where they account for 50% of blindness, compared to just 5% of blindness within developed countries. The socioeconomic effect of cataract surgery is substantial. It allows people [...]
Developing agile methodologies for algorithm products April 23, 2021 | City Talk Modern software methodologies have some catching up to do to accommodate data science practitioners. It was the early 2000s when The Agile Manifesto marked a step toward a more humane direction for software engineering by placing an emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and rapid feedback. This evolved into prescriptive frameworks like Scrum and Kanban that made [...]