Regional Automated vehicles can reduce CO2 emissions by 60 percent and two regional startups are taking note Not too long ago, Tesla Model S and General Motors Chevy Bolt have been involved in two separate road accidents in California. Tesla bumped... Reine Farhat • 22 February, 2018 Automated Vehicles Derq Careem Pods
Regional Will the growing need for wearables in the MENA push hardware startups forward? The wearables market in the MENA region is quickly evolving. According to figures shared by the International Data Corporation (IDC), a... Rana Freifer • 08 February, 2018 Wearable devices Technology healthtech
U.A.E Unified Inbox is one of three startups selected by Marriott Hotels TestBed Middle East & Africa [Video] With a huge viariety of hotels to choose from, travelers and guests are often provided with many options to choose from. Hotels that are... Staff writer • 10 January, 2018 Marriott TestBed
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... Rana Freifer • 08 November, 2017 lebanon robotics SASHA
Tunisia A new incubation space settles in Sousse, Tunisia Faten Aissi, business developer, Khaireddine Fredj, an entrepreneur, and Daniel Doppler, a French startup mentor, created 777, an incubator... Maya Rahal • 26 October, 2017 Incubator régions hub
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... Rana Freifer • 17 October, 2017 robotics hospitality Marriott TestBED MEA
Jordan Geeks focuses on automation to scale business operations Time flies when you're having fun! Dubai-based startup Geeks, launched in December 2014 by the Jordanian partners Mousa Yassin and... Elias Jabbe • 04 October, 2017 Geeks it b2b
Global New startups on the block: September Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development... Reine Farhat • 04 September, 2017 Startup List news AI
Egypt What I know about fab labs: Sherry Lassiter Despite two-decades in science journalism, Sherry Lassiter has become part of the technology story rather than a storyteller. After... Doaa Farid • 08 May, 2017 Fab Foundation Maker Faire Cairo Fab Lab Egypt
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... Eduard Cousin • 12 April, 2017 ROV Arab Competition remotely operated vehicles Aquaphoton
Jordan Jordan and 3D printers: a battle close to an end After a series of inconsistent government policies, 3D printers are allowed to enter Jordan thanks to a decree issued in November.... Tala El Issa • 06 March, 2017 3d printing Mixed Dimensions 3rd Reality
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... Lilia Blaise • 23 January, 2017 Enova Robotics profile robotics
Global What I know about IoT: Cedric Giorgi The Internet of Things (IoT) is throwing off some new innovations, one of which is the need for something called a ‘low power... Rachel Williamson • 12 December, 2016 IoT Sigfox Spimesense Labs
Saudi Arabia A Saudi startup invents VR glasses that could change books for ever By 2020, the global virtual reality (VR) market is projected to reach $150 billion. It is expected to reach its first billion this year... Abdulghani Kataya • 08 November, 2016 BeThere Saudi Arabia KAUST
U.A.E 3D medical printing finds its footing in Dubai’s future Launched in October 2015, Medativ is a Dubai-based 3D anatomical model printing company. The company name is a play on its products... Archana Menon • 18 October, 2016 MEMakersGE Healthcare 3d printing
U.A.E Could this Dubai startup have produced the world’s thinnest smartphone? A Dubai-based startup claims to have manufactured the thinnest smartphone available worldwide, with a width of 4.6 mm (a little more than... Maysaa Ajjan • 25 September, 2016 carbon works Dubai smartphone
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... Rachel Williamson • 13 September, 2016 STEM junkbot Eureka Tech Academy
Lebanon Powering up your beach experience Growing up in a country that sits along the Mediterranean coast, the beach is staple in the country’s summer activities. For many,... Dana Ballout • 14 September, 2016 Beachill lebanon solar energy
U.A.E Redefining cities, the human touch Marwa al-Sabouni, an architect from Homs, said in her book The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, that “the... Lucy Knight • 05 September, 2016 MIT Media Lab uae urban planning
U.A.E NYUAD Idea Lab rebrands to Start AD Initially created to help students, New York University Abu Dhabi’s Idea Lab will be known as Start AD starting this month.... Archana Menon • 25 September, 2016 NYU Abu Dhabi MEMakersGE Start AD
Regional Five 3D prints making MENA proud Gone are the days where printing was reserved for airline tickets, directions, or a favorite picture of your loved ones. Today,... Dana Ballout • 31 August, 2016 3d printing Hardware Dubai
Lebanon Kids Genius: a young makers heaven in Lebanon [Video] At Kids Genius, the boring connotations of the word ‘education’ is masked by a sense of creativity and fun. This classroom... Dana Ballout • 30 August, 2016 Kids Genius lebanon INDUSTRY
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... Rachel Williamson • 23 August, 2016 Innovo lebanon robotics
Qidni Labs promises to clean out your kidney for an artificial one End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is when kidneys have stopped working well enough for patients to survive without dialysis or a kidney... Bérénice Magistretti • 21 August, 2016 Qidni Labs Healthcare Artificial organs