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Autonomous AI-powered drone tech detects and reports fires, test launched by five-way partnership

As global warming and wildfires intensify, governmental and tech partners race to develop an AI-powered drone system that detects and reports fires within minutes.

Drone integrating VTOL & APUS 25 tech undergoes test flight.
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

The AI singularity may have arrived: Technion expert backs OpenAI's Sam Altman's claim

Professor Yitzhak Apeloig.

Former Technion president Professor Yitzhak Apeloig passes away aged 81

Aerial view of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Technion leads Israel, Europe in AI research in new CSRanking index, ranking 21st worldwide


New technology from Technion removes toxins from drinking water

Exposure to synthetic organo-fluorine chemical compounds is known to cause long-term health issues including cancer, birth defects, and heart disease.

 Water pitcher

Israeli research institute makes great contributions to cancer research

Technologies including artificial intelligence-based diagnostic software may be changing how the disease is detected and treated in the future.

Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Technion team's breakthrough research vacates single oxygen atoms

A study, which was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal 'ACS Nano,' shares findings that are a potential breakthrough in the development of ferroelectric materials.

Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at Technion University.

Technion researchers cure mice of diabetes in novel trial

New research investigates the use of an autograft of muscle cells engineered to take in sugar at increased rates in mice with type 2 diabetes. 

 The implanted construct: the engineered muscle fibers (in red) express the GLUT4 (in green)

Technion to award German Chancellor Merkel honorary doctorate

The ceremony will take place in Jerusalem, as part of Merkel’s visit to Israel, with the award granted for her support of the Jewish state and fight against antisemitism.

 FORMER PRESIDENT Shimon Peres meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his official residence in Jerusalem in 2011.

Technion study finds warmth of AI systems more important than capability

The study featured over 1,600 participants and was published in the Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Artificial intelligence

Technion faculty members win prestigious EU awards

Two professors from the Technion won a total of $3.7 million in grants awarded by the European Research Council.

Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

A Technion student has just smashed the world record for light resonance

Graduate student Jacob Kher-Alden created a floating resonator which exhibits resonant enhancement by 10 million circulations of light, compared to about 300 circulations in previous models.

Jacob Kher-Alden

Cancer patients may not be high-risk for coronavirus, researchers say

The researchers found that the assumption that cancer patients should be considered as at-risk for coronavirus was without any scientific basis.

Lung cells infected with coronavirus

Israeli developed COVID-19 breath test could be used by public

The test is envisioned to be used in the future as a screening tool for airports, shopping centers and other public places or even at home.

Health care workers take test samples to check for coronavirus, Lod, July 5, 2020