Dalhousie University’s Emera IdeaHUB has announced the latest cohort of its BUILD accelerator, with artificial intelligence playing a role in the underlying technology behind at least four of the 10 companies.
BUILD, previously called Design2Build, is a 10-month accelerator meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.
The program is split into three modules. The first module focuses on product design, the second on building a product and the third on scaling manufacturing.
Here’s a look at the latest cohort:
Bio Lab Mate
Sarika Kumari and Sanjay Dubey
St. John’s
Bio Lab Mate is developing recyclable and biodegradable plastic products for use in university laboratories and private research centres as replacements for conventional plastic lab equipment.
Dri-Print
Sam Fisher and Cameron Jantzen
Halifax
Dri-Print is developing a “highly interactive” digital whiteboard for use by teachers.
Hamid Mandi
Mexico City, Mexico
Avisyna is developing brain-computer interface technology meant to allow people to control electronic devices and interact with computers using only their brain activity.
XO Technology
Zheng (John) Wang and Jason Gu
Halifax
XO Technology is working on human-computer interface devices with health monitoring capabilities for use in augmented and virtual reality systems. Gu is also the Canadian president of the IEEE — the organization that sets computer networking standards.
Salar Salahi, Amir Kolahdouz and Seyed Nabavi
St. John’s
Nditive3D is developing a digital twin system for monitoring gas leaks in maritime settings.
Ocean Sights Technology
Artorix de la Cruz and Shaun Slade
Halifax
Ocean Sights is developing an artificial intelligence-based system for monitoring the contents of lobster traps, saving fisherman the time and cost of checking traps manually.
Maxwell and Brigham Poole
Yarmouth, NS
Oxebow is developing an on-board conveyor system for fishing boats to scan and track their shellfish catches
Safe Harbour Research & Technologies
Samira Khodadoost
Halifax
Safe Harbour is working on a self-powered buoy for monitoring the speeds of marine vessels in harbours.
Masoud Aali
Halifax
Scient is developing an artificial intelligence system for identifying the minerals in drilling cores taken during mining exploration.
Smart Bin
Aneesh Raghupathy and Niraj Shukla
St. John’s
Smart Bin has designed sensors that can be placed in commercial garbage bins to track how full they are, before an artificial intelligence system suggests optimized routing for garbage trucks.
