Wamda

U.A.E

e& capital invests $5 million in Maxbyte’s Series A round

UAE-based robotics solutions provider Maxbyte has raised a $5 million Series A from e& capital. Founded in 2016 by...

Regional

Do robots create or destroy jobs?

Eugene Kovalenko is the chief commercial officer of Rozum Robotics, the company behind the first robot cafe in the UAE. When it...

robotics

Global

Can artificial intelligence eradicate death?

Ben Goertzel is one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) architects in the world. He is the founder of SingularityNET and the...

Artificial intelligence AI robot

U.A.E

From rubbish to robot

When Abdus Samad was a child, he would prise open electrical items at home to see the components inside and then put them back together. It...

robots robotics DIY

Tunisia

For every human need comes a robot

Robots may not rule the world (anytime soon) but they are gradually excelling at a number of human tasks such as helping human resources...

robots robotics AI

U.A.E

Robots can help socialize autistic children and UAE’s Atlab is a practical example

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are both revolutionizing all industries, and healthcare has been at the core of their activities....

Autism robotics Atlab

Global

Today’s toys, tomorrow’s school books

The hundreds of toys kids used to receive on their special occasions (many of which remain unused) might get replaced one day with...

robotics Education online education

Lebanon

The MENA embraces more healthtech advancements

The global healthcare expenditure will be growing from $7.7 trillion in 2013 to $9.6 trillion in 2018. Digital transformation is...

lebanon robotics SASHA

Global

Robotics are set to revolutionise hospitality and guest servicing

On Thursday March 10, 2016 the special guest at the ITB Berlin Hospitality Day, one of the world’s leading travel trade shows, was...

robotics hospitality Marriott TestBED MEA

Regional

AI is taking roots in the MENA

Even though Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a blistering pace, outside academia and engineering, it remains a bit of a...

AI Investment Technology

Regional

New startups on the block: August

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

Startup List startups ecommerce

Global

Startup Watch: Naughty Google, ATM anniversary and the joy of saying 'no'

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch Google Facebook

Egypt

California calls for 8 ROV robot winners

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) skimmed underneath the surface of a swimming pool, surrounded by students with joysticks and controllers...

ROV Arab Competition remotely operated vehicles Aquaphoton

Lebanon

How to organise a robotics competition

On a drizzly Sunday afternoon in a Beirut sports hall, 18 teams of students competed for the title of ‘best self-driving...

AUB robotics club self-driving car aub

Global

Startup Watch: the real robot danger

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

Startup Watch robotics Women

Tunisia

Tunisia startup makes robots, not human substitutes

When Anis Sahbani left his job as a university lecturer in France to start a robot-making startup in Tunisia, half of his friends thought...

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Lebanon

Beirut’s southern suburbs home to robotics education

Electronics and hardware education is gaining traction across Lebanon as maker schools and workshops are popping up across the...

Kalimat lebanon robotics

Regional

AUB Robotics Club presents Engineering Design Challenge 2.0: Drive Smarter

The AUB Robotics Club's Engineering Design Challenge (EDC) is a regional university-level engineering competition, launched...

robotics aub driverless cars

Regional

Sparks fly when girls meet tech [WamdaTV]

It’s not up to young women to be interested in technology, but up to their teachers to find ways to make the subject appealing to...

STEM junkbot Eureka Tech Academy

$A fractal view of event technology$

U.A.E

A fractal view of event technology

Fractal Systems is a Dubai based company loading up exhibitions, airports, and event venues with samplings of holograms, drones, sliding...

MEMakersGE fractel robotics

Lebanon

Lebanon's droid-maker: Innovo breaks into hi-tech manufacturing [Wamda TV]

Innovo is one of the few independent precision manufacturing workshops in the region - this means robots, high tech circuit boards, and 3D...

Innovo lebanon robotics

Regional

Meet the makers: GE Garages and the future of industrial entrepreneurship

As the MENA region grapples with non-hydrocarbon diversification in the aftermath of the oil price shock, a slew of strategic announcements...

MEMakersGE GEMS robotics

Regional

What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in...

Adasi pal robotics robotics

U.A.E

GITEX Technology Week 2016

This year's GITEX Technology Week aims to be bigger than ever, bringing designers, developers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and...

Icities Smart wearables 400 startups

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