DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

              By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

AI & BLOCKBUSTER DRUGS

                                    Source:  LabGenius & Stock

• AI is revolutionizing virtually every aspect of life, but its biggest near-term impact may be the development of highly impactful new medical therapies
• Here's a powerful example of how it's being deployed:
• London-based biotech LabGenius is using AI powered robotics, computers and algorithms to discover new antibodies, which are the body's 1st defense against disease, and breakthrough drug therapies based on them
• LabGenius has automated the drug discovery process
• They've cut down the time to find promising new antibodies and potential therapies to six weeks instead of years
• The company says they've combined human and machine intelligence to accelerate the discovery of advanced medicines
• In essence they use:

1. Algorithms to design antibodies to attack specific diseases
2. Their AI robotic system EVA grows, builds, tests antibodies, designs experiments & learns from experiments
3. Machine learning model analyzes results and passes what's most promising to human researchers

• Bottom line:  this new system finds high-performing antibodies faster with great potential, according to the company - clearly this is a company to watch.

 

FUTURE OF BMW SHOWCASED IN NEUE KLASSE EV

                                                        Source:  BMW

• In early September, BMW will unveil its Vision Neue Klasse EV
• BMW Chairman Oliver Zippe calls it the future of BMW
• Here's what we know:

1. Neue Klasse is an electric vehicle platform
2. This will be the first of 6 Neue Klasse models over the next 2 years
3. Electric sedan
4. Uses BMW's Gen 6 battery technology
5. 30% longer range
6. 50% less in production costs
7. 60% less carbon emissions
8. Battery capacity between 75 kWh to 150 kWh
9. 268 hp to 1,341 hp
10. Vehicle is production ready

• Second Neue Klasse model will be a compact SUV
• For BMW, the Neue Klasse name goes back 60 years and BMW considers it the future of the brand.

ROBOTIC SEA TURTLES COULD HELP BABY TURTLES

                                                    Source:  University of Notre Dame & Stock

• Seven key species of sea turtles are either threatened or endangered of extinction
• The University of Notre Dame has developed a robotic sea turtle to help save and protect endangered sea turtle hatchlings
• Here's what we know:

1. It is designed to guide turtle hatchlings safely to the ocean
2. The robot emulates real turtles' movement and gait on land
3. The front flippers propel the robot forward and the rear ones steer it
4. The flippers are made of silicone
5. It's battery operated
6. Sea turtles are hatched under beach sand and have to make it from there to the ocean
7. According to the World Wildlife Federation only 1 in 1,000 hatchlings make it to adulthood

• Helping protect them and navigate to the ocean, as this new robot does, could reduce an obstacle to their survival and that of the species itself.

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