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Pydro: a water sensor that powers itself from the pipe it measures
A Hamburg startup built a flow meter with a tiny turbine inside, so it runs on the water it monitors and needs no battery, no cable, and no site visit.
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Profiles of deep-tech startups and the software behind them, plus notes from building web applications.
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GreenVisions PH: a soil test that answers in minutes instead of months
A Philippine social enterprise built a field device that reads soil nutrients in seven minutes and prints a crop-specific fertilizer plan on the spot.
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Fortell: teaching a hearing aid to separate voices instead of guessing presets
A four-founder New York startup built a custom chip that runs real-time AI source separation inside a hearing aid, tackling the cocktail-party problem old presets never solved.
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Atomarine: the data center you tow out to sea
AI's real infrastructure bottleneck is the years-long wait to connect to the grid. Atomarine skips the queue entirely by building floating, modular data centers cooled by seawater, with nuclear power on the roadmap.
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Brumby: drones that read a cow's body language
An Australian startup trains drones with reinforcement learning to muster cattle the way an experienced stockman would, backing off the moment an animal shows stress.
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EuQlid: seeing inside a chip without cutting it open
A small Maryland startup uses synthetic diamonds and machine learning to map buried currents inside 3D chips, replacing the slicing and grinding that chip inspection has always required.
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Luum: a stroke-rehab exoskeleton, retrained to apply eyelash extensions
A small startup took the safety engineering behind wearable rehab robots and pointed it at a beauty task done one hair at a time, inside real Ulta and Nordstrom stores.
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Subtle: earbuds trained to hear a whisper over a crowd
A small Stanford-founded startup builds earbuds whose AI model isolates the wearer's own voice instead of blocking noise, catching speech below a whisper or across a loud room.
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DAIMON Robotics: teaching robot fingers to see what they touch
A small Hong Kong robotics startup turns touch into an image its robots already know how to read, packing over 110,000 sensing points into a single fingertip.
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Sonic Fire Tech: putting out fires with sound instead of water
A small Cleveland startup founded by former NASA acoustics engineers uses inaudible low-frequency sound waves to detect and suppress fires in seconds, without water or chemicals.
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Hyper Hyve: a lid that learns the sound of a healthy hive
A small Wisconsin beekeeping company built a solar-powered hive lid that listens for a colony about to swarm, days before a beekeeper would notice.
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Artificial Intelligence and Its Governance: A Brief History and Where Things Stand Today
How AI's technical evolution and the regulation trying to keep up with it actually fit together — from the 2017 Transformer to the EU AI Act's 2026 enforcement.
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RareSum: mining years of clinical notes to catch rare diseases earlier
A Turkiye-based startup runs NLP over messy hospital notes to surface rare-disease clues that no single doctor could ever read at scale.
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The AI Act: a practical guide for people who build and use AI
What's actually in force, what got postponed, and what to do now, updated to the real deadlines as of late August 2026, for developers and businesses alike.
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Shen AI: turning a phone camera into a certified vital-signs monitor
An Estonian-Polish startup reads heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate from a 30-second phone camera scan, and its Medical SDK just earned CE certification as a Class IIa device.
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Workvoice: turning a site walkthrough into a paid invoice
A Poland-based startup built an agentic OS that listens to a technician on site and turns the visit into a priced, compliant, billable job before the van leaves.
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Onescope: giving the two-century-old stethoscope an AI upgrade
A Geneva spinout packs a stethoscope, pulse oximeter and thermometer into one pocket device, then lets an AI model read lung sounds instead of a trained ear.
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Vivodyne: teaching AI models cause and effect by growing human tissue in a lab
A University of Pennsylvania spinout runs modular robotic labs that grow twenty kinds of human tissue, generating the causal biological data that today's AI drug-discovery models are missing.
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Orca AI: teaching cargo ships to see what radar misses
A Tel Aviv startup mounts thermal and day cameras above the bridge so ships can spot small, unlit vessels that radar and AIS miss, and Lloyd's Register just ran a real Mediterranean trial to check the claim.
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Applied Electrodynamics: a camera that reads what's hidden behind a wall
A five-person YC startup built WaveSight, a radio-wave camera that turns hidden pipes, wiring and studs into a millimeter-accurate 3D map, without touching the wall.
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EyeROV: robots that dive so divers don't have to
A Kochi startup's underwater robots inspect dams, ship hulls and pipelines for industry, then survey coral reefs in the Andaman and Lakshadweep islands for marine scientists, using the same AI vision layer.
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Zander Labs: teaching robots from the exact moment a human notices a mistake
A small German-Dutch neuroscience startup builds a brain-wave headset that flags the instant a person registers error or surprise, adding that signal to the training data robots learn from.
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Vaire Computing: chips that recycle their own heat
A London and Cambridge startup is building processors where computation runs both forward and backward, so the energy that would normally leak out as heat gets reused for the next calculation.
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Verdia Diagnostics: a patch that smells a sick plant before it looks sick
A three-person NC State spinout built a leaf sensor that reads the gas a plant emits under stress, catching disease about a week before any visible symptom.
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Atom Touch: a prosthetic arm that learns to move each finger
A small California startup built a prosthetic arm whose AI neural interface reads muscle signals through the skin, giving amputees individual finger control at a fraction of the usual cost.
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Verkor.io: an AI agent designed a CPU core from a 219-word prompt
A chip design startup built an agentic harness that turned one written spec into a working RISC-V CPU core in twelve hours, no human writing the register-transfer code.
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Nyquis: catching the spark before it becomes a fire
A small startup is teaching power grids to recognize the electrical signature of a wildfire before it ignites, not just cut power after it does.
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PaveX: turning road inspections into color-coded data instead of guesswork
A Purdue spinout replaced expensive survey vehicles with a low-cost sensor kit and computer vision that scores every crack and pothole by depth, and has already mapped over 3,400 miles of Indiana roads.
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inSystem.io: catching the battery hiding in your trash before it catches fire
A small Dutch startup built a free-fall sorting machine that pulls loose batteries out of household waste at 96 percent purity, using a camera that tracks each falling object instead of a conveyor belt.
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Bubble Robotics: giving offshore infrastructure a robot that never comes home
A Swiss team of ex-NASA and ETH Zurich engineers built modular underwater robots that dock, recharge, and stay at sea for six months, turning annual ship inspections into a continuous digital twin.
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Talksign: skipping the cloud to translate sign language in real time
A self-funded Nigeria-and-UK team builds a bidirectional ASL translator that runs on hand landmarks instead of raw video, so it keeps working offline and under 100ms.
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RxAll: the pill scanner that learned to work without a data center
A Nigerian startup builds a handheld scanner that spots fake pills in seconds. When the internet failed during a live demo, the fix reshaped the whole product.
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Forge Robotics: the welding robot that measures before it moves
A tiny Irish-founded startup skips the teach pendant entirely. Forge scans each part to sub-millimeter accuracy first, then lets the welding arm plan its own path, closing the gap that leaves 10% of welded parts needing rework.
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Aures AI: listening for the pest that eats a tree from the inside
A six-person Doha team built a phone app that identifies a hidden infestation by sound alone, catching a beetle larva weeks before any leaf shows damage.
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Lunar: a button on a white cane that describes the world
Three Hamburg graduates built LV01, a modular wearable that turns a camera view into a spoken scene description. The trigger sits where a blind person's hand already is: on the cane.
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Kimba: the one sense that can reach you while you sleep
A bedside hub reads live data from your smartwatch and answers with scent, the only sensory channel that can nudge the sleeping brain without waking it.
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Neuronova: a chip that computes before it goes digital
A Milan startup skips the always-on digitizer that drains battery life in smart devices. Its H1 chip processes sound in analog first, cutting power for wake-word detection by up to 1,000x.
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Bylaw: catching the moment an agent trusts the wrong fact
A Waterloo team built the check nobody puts in front of an agent's write: not can it use the tool, but can it trust the evidence behind the decision.
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Red Barn Robotics: a Roomba for the weeds no machine could ever touch
A five-person Seattle startup builds an autonomous robot that pulls weeds growing right next to the crop, the one job herbicide sprayers and tractor cultivators still cannot do.
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Satellites on Fire: beating NASA's wildfire alerts with more satellites, not a bigger model
Three Argentine students turned a school project into a wildfire detection platform that fuses eight satellite feeds and beats NASA's FIRMS alerts by roughly 35 minutes on average.
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Bindwell: designing safer pesticides with AI before the lab
A tiny team built three neural models that predict a pest protein's shape, screen millions of compounds in hours, and flag when a prediction can't be trusted.
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Q.ANT: doing AI math with light instead of transistors
A small Stuttgart team built a processor that runs neural-network math inside optical waveguides, claiming far lower energy because light barely heats up and one optical element replaces hundreds of transistors.
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GodHands: agents that memorize a task instead of re-thinking it every time
A two-person startup goes after the real bottleneck for AI agents: not raw capability but reliability, by recording a workflow once and replaying it deterministically across any app, even legacy software with no API.
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Voxel Energy: powering data centers by never leaving DC
The bottleneck for AI data centers isn't chips, it's a multi-year wait to plug into the grid. Voxel skips the grid entirely with off-grid solar, second-life EV batteries, and a microgrid that stays DC end to end.
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SigmanticAI: an AI agent that writes chips and lets the synthesizer grade it
Most AI coding tools have a soft definition of success. Hardware doesn't: Verilog either passes synthesis or it doesn't. SigmanticAI points fine-tuned models and reinforcement learning at exactly that pass/fail oracle.
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Tornyol: micro-drones that hunt mosquitoes by the sound of their wings
Two founders, 40-gram drones, and a serious idea hiding behind a joke: chemical-free mosquito control that identifies the female by its wingbeat and runs the whole signal chain on board.
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Bucket Robotics: training the AI before the part even exists
Instead of photographing thousands of defective parts, Bucket generates the vision model straight from CAD with synthetic data, so quality control is ready before production starts.
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Visionary.ai: throwing out a chip that's been in every camera for decades
An all-software, AI-based ISP that works on the sensor's RAW signal before it's degraded: +75% object detection and −91% false positives in low light, all at the edge.
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CLIP Energy: reading every appliance from a single number
One non-invasive clip-on sensor plus a neural net that disaggregates the load, turning a single meter reading into appliance-by-appliance insight, and cutting bills ~20%.
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Sarvam AI: the interesting question isn't how big, but how far down
While everyone races for bigger models, an Indian startup is squeezing a voice assistant into a feature phone: offline, a few megabytes, 22 languages. The constraint is the feature.
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WindBorne: a better feedback loop, not just a better model
A team that started by building better weather balloons now out-forecasts agencies that have owned the field for decades, because the balloons and the AI feed each other.
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Aurorin CAD: rewriting the 1980s engine everyone quietly tolerates
Most engineering software runs on a geometry kernel older than the people using it. Aurorin is rebuilding that load-bearing layer from scratch: AI-native, for modern hardware.
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Greyparrot: AI vision for the dirtiest place I could imagine
A London startup puts AI cameras over recycling conveyor belts, turning an opaque plant into a measurable system: proof that the best vision work happens where nobody expected it.
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ALT TEX: the innovation that fits in instead of replacing
A ten-person Toronto team turns food waste into a polyester alternative, and the clever part isn't the chemistry: it's that it runs on the polyester machines that already exist.
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Payload, Sanity, or Strapi: choosing a headless CMS
There's no single best headless CMS — only the right fit for the project. Here's how I decide between Payload, Sanity, and Strapi.
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Welcome to the Fiscet blog
Notes on building fast, scalable web applications with Next.js and headless CMS — the decisions, trade-offs, and lessons from real client work.
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