The post title refers to Lightmatter's photonic computing [the use of light instead of electricity for computing, like the use of optical fibre instead of copper wire for data transmission] while the video shows an Endeavour Robotics police robot taking on a K9. Lightmatter and Endeavour are among our pick of startups from Boston and Tokyo:
Boston
- Lightmatter - Photonic computing because silicon is down to 10 atoms
- Endeavour - After swords & guns, next are robots (and drones) at the front
- Inrupt - Tim Berners-Lee's new web to replace the siloed, data slurping one
- PA - Avoid jerky autonomous drive caused by unpredictable pedestrians
- Dust Identity - Security tag items by sprinkling them with nano diamonds
- Lendbuzz - Second chance for borrowers turned away by banks
- Gradifi - Help your staff pay his/her study loan as a perk
Tokyo
- Ozon - Smart ring that does gesture input, alerts, e-keys and e-wallet
- Aeronext - Radical new drone design that is vertical and gravity oriented
- BaseTrack - Russian self-driving that is much simpler, uses virtual tracks
- Pireco - Iris recognition for animals, like thumbprints for humans
- Mui - Display that looks like natural wood vs the standard black panel
- EnviRate - Rate the environment instead of restaurants, eco mapping
- GPU Eater - Cloud that runs on GPUs instead of CPUs, for faster ML