What Is Deep Technology?
Deep tech, also known as deep technology, is a type of startup business that creates new offerings based on tangible engineering innovation or scientific discoveries and advances.
Typically, such startups focus on agriculture, life sciences, chemistry, aerospace, and green energy, among other things.
These are a few characteristics deep tech startups tend to have-
- Impact: Deep tech innovations are extremely radical, disrupting existing markets, or creating new ones. Deep-tech innovations frequently alter lives, economies, and societies.
- Time and Scale: Deep technology development takes far longer than shallow technology development to develop technology and reach market-ready maturity (like mobile apps and websites). Artificial intelligence took decades to develop and is still far from perfect.
- Capital: Deep tech frequently necessitates a large amount of early-stage funding for research and development, prototyping, hypothesis validation, and technology development.
A few promising fields of deep tech are blockchain, advanced materials, AI, biotechnology, robotics and drones, photonics and electronics, and quantum computing.
Genrobotics
Genrobotics is a Kerala-based initiative that builds a robot – called Bandicoot – which is a spider-shaped robot that cleans sewage and aims to eliminate the pagan practice of manual manipulation.
This is a 50 kg remote-controlled pneumatic-powered pneumatic robot that descends into the hole, spreads its expanding limbs like a spider, and releases solid, liquid waste that blocks urban sewage. It has a 360-degree moving robot arm that can sweep the floor to collect debris in a 20-minute vacuum cleaner.
Bandicoot is distributed in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, and Gujarat. Genrobotics was introduced by engineers Vimal Govind MK, Arun George, Nikhil NP, and Rashid Abdulla Khan in 2015.
Bandicoot uses artificial intelligence (AI) and mechanical intelligence (ML) to determine the amount of unclogging required and can complete a task in 45 minutes, which requires three or four hours of manual labor if not.
The Manhole Monitoring System (MMS) is also developed by Genrobotics. MMS is a complete sewage solution that monitors the mining network, collects important data, and analyzes it using AI learning technology and technology to provide a complete overview of pit health and provides a warning when it closes/overflows.
The G-Robotic Suit, manufactured by Genrobotics, is a 10-meter-high robot that can be operated by a man by placing it inside. It is a technology model that can be used for defense purposes, space applications, weight lifting, and anything that requires additional power and protection.
Cogknit
Cogknit Semantics Pvt. Ltd is a new ISO-certified product company based in Bangalore. Applied electronic learning in text, speech, and computer perspectives. Nimit of this company is a personal learning platform that uses data science and machine learning algorithms to identify user learning patterns, and user activity to identify user contexts, and deliver content-based content, allowing them to access an extended learning platform.
Cogknit is of the opinion that they will use voice-based transactions that will disrupt the industry. It uses the content of many videos in its stores and wants to make sure that those contain text that can be followed even by a visually impaired customer.
Startup and innovation skills focus on Semantics, Web 3.0, Big Data, system engineering, and related technology to solve various market problems.
Jumper.ai
Nyha Shree co-founded Jumper.ai, an AI-enabled software that assists businesses in connecting with consumers on social media platforms to purchase their products. Customer expectations continue to rise as mobile, social, and cloud technologies proliferate. They expect seamless and hyper-personalized experiences now more than ever.
Customer experience is the new battlefield for many businesses, providing a competitive advantage that attracts and retains loyal customers.
It converts social media posts into shoppable posts, so when customers comment on your post with questions, Jumper will automatically answer them and talk to the customers on the company’s behalf, as well as walk them through the sale right within the platform, saving them from having to go to another website.
Using hashtags and artificial intelligence, the startup hopes to simplify social commerce. With payment gateways, the information provided at the time of payment is secured and tokenized (encrypted by companies such as VISA).
Any company or startup that regularly uses social media as its primary acquisition channel can benefit from the platform.
Photom
Himmant Singh founded Photom Technologies, which was incorporated in 2018. Photom Technologies offers solutions for the operation and maintenance of renewable energy plants, allowing them to run more efficiently. Photom’s goal is to create innovative products and solutions for renewable energy plants.
Their goal is to be a key stakeholder in the development of India’s renewable energy sector. Photom robots provide a completely dry system for cleaning solar panels without the use of chemicals or water, allowing you to save money. It is about two to four meters in length.
They are now planning pilots in Gujarat and hope to go commercial soon. iCreate has already provided equity seed funding to the startup. Himmant Singh, the founder, was one of fifteen Indian entrepreneurs invited by the UK government’s Royal Academy of Engineers for the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship.
Desintox Technologies
Desintox Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a startup based in Kerala that was founded in 2016 by Sooraj Chandran and Don Paul. Desintox Technologies Pvt. Ltd is a company that designs, manufactures, and sells rehabilitation and health equipment. They currently have four products: EasyMover, Hoist, Smartmotive, and an Electric Wheelchair.
He began his career as a design engineer at Crabwrist Technologies. Sooraj became aware of the need for paraplegic patients’ support machines after one of his friends was involved in an accident.
Desintox Technologies was founded in Kochi’s Maker Village. The ‘Hoist’ device transfers the patient from bed, chairs, and toilets; it has a leg spreader feature and high-quality imported motors controlled by a display and safety switch.
Smartmotive is a standing wheelchair that can assist paraplegic patients in standing by assisting in muscle development and combining the benefits of a wheelchair and a tilting table.
The Electric Wheelchair allows the paraplegic to travel independently and is controlled by a joystick switch with speed options.
Streamoid
Nvidia, Manthani, Rajesh Kumar, and Haricharan Lakshman founded Streamoid in 2014 as an AI – Artificial Intelligence Stylist.
Streamoid Technologies uses its image recognition expertise to extract product and style information from images and process it through its AI engine to provide trendy or contextual and personalized fashion shopping results.
The startup is primarily concerned with the fashion and retail industries. Streamoid comprehends the user’s fashion query in natural language, images, voice, and context. Users can interact with it as if it were a highly knowledgeable fashion sales assistant.
With the fashion and clothing industries booming more than ever, Streamoid is bound to become a household name very soon.
Streamoid provides you with your own style bot that you designed, developed, hosted, and maintained. Streamoid enables you to provide personalized style advice to your customers through a natural conversational interface.
Style bots outperform human agents in many ways thanks to advanced NLP and deep integration. Style bots are available 24 hours a day, can respond instantly to concurrent conversations, provide personalized support, and offer cost savings.
Nautilus Hearing
Nautilus Hearing Health Care is an accessible and affordable startup founded by audiologist T. Uday Raga Kiran.
By providing revolutionary technology that opens up new possibilities in audiometric testing, the startup creates a new type of hearing care company product using the best technologies to make hearing care simple, accessible, and reliable.
People frequently use their hearing aids for short periods of time and discontinue use as soon as they become unsatisfactory.
The company has developed a booth-less, portable audiometer that is helping doctors conduct ear tests with ease. There are two versions of Nautilus Hearing.
A diagnostic product for certified healthcare practitioners as well as a screening device for use in schools, colleges, non-profit organisations, and industries with loud machinery and devices.
Nautilus Hearing was selected for the Karnataka Government’s ELEVATE 100 Program, which resulted in an undisclosed round of funding. The company has finished preliminary tests and will soon begin clinical trials. The device was tested at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing in Mysore by the team.
Cognitifai
Kanishka Nithin founded Cognitifai, a startup that uses a video intelligence platform to index physical world phenomena to retrieve precise information using cameras. They have specialized in urban monitoring for smart cities and retail enterprises, such as surveillance, healthcare, and hyper-local intelligence discovery.
Cognitifai’s computer vision can detect even one bottle from the store’s inventory, allowing the store to replenish the shelf much faster than relying on a manual store worker to check and fill the stock. As a result, real-time intervention is possible to help with inventory management.
Cognitifai has created the following products:
- Visionapi.ai is an open marketplace for cutting-edge video intelligence use cases and algorithms, allowing businesses of all sizes to easily discover, access, and consumer use cases and algorithms. Instead of spending all of your time researching, concentrate on solving your business problem.
- DevSuite.ai is a collection of no-code visual modeling tools that support the entire AI algorithm or AI product development lifecycle, from research to production.
- HPCOS.ai is a fully managed, highly parallel, and distributed operating system designed for AI training, inference, and continuous learning at scale. Automating and optimizing the end-to-end operations lifecycle for large-scale AI deployment.
- Dataplatform.ai is a framework for secure distributed storage, governance and processing of large, multi-source data sets.
CONCLUSION
The world is constantly changing, and thanks to technological advancements, it has become nothing short of a sci-fi film. Deep tech startups are also playing an important role in the startup ecosystem. Some of these startups are already quite popular in India, and they are doing their best to provide innovative products and services to people while also solving their problems.
FAQ
What are examples of Deep-tech?
A few promising fields of Deep-tech are blockchain, advanced materials, AI, biotechnology, robotics and drones, photonics and electronics, and quantum computing.
What is meant by Deep-tech?
Deep tech, also known as deep technology, is a type of startup business that creates new offerings based on tangible engineering innovation or scientific discoveries and advances.
Is virtual reality Deep-tech?
Yes, it can be considered a part of deep tech.
