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Gentex takes stake in Israeli thermal digital camera corporate

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Adasky used to be based in Israel in 2016. Piersma mentioned it’s conceivable that Gentex may just build the cameras in elevated quantity. The Gentex and Adasky groups will perform engineering paintings in Israel. Gentex, headquartered in Zeeland, Mich., used to be Negative.

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Toyota Research Institute launches Toyota AI Ventures with $100M investment

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TRI participated in Nauto’s $12M Series A financing in August 2016. SLAMcore, based in Britain, develops advanced algorithms designed to help technology platforms such as autonomous cars, drones and AR/VR systems simultaneously to build a map of their surroundings and position themselves within it.

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Alstom Enters Solar Market With Up to $55M Investment in BrightSource Energy

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BrightSource is a specialist in designing, building and operating tower based solar thermal power plants with operations in the USA, Israel and Australia. We welcome Alstom and we look forward to building on this relationship as we continue to grow the US solar market and expand internationally.

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AC Transit Board greenlights a $108M, 9.5-mile infrastructure project for first Bus Rapid Transit line; diesel-hybrid buses

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miles) is slated to begin in May 2016 with service expected to begin in November 2017. Bus Rapid Transit offers the benefits of a light rail train system without the exorbitant cost of building light rail. Construction of the 150 block transit service (that spans 9.5 million people who call Curitiba home.

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HARMAN acquiring Red Bend Software and Symphony Teleca for growth in connected vehicle space

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HARMAN International announced the acquisition of Israel-based Red Bend Software, a leading provider of software management technology for connected devices, and over-the-air (OTA) software and firmware upgrading services. The transaction is subject to customer closing adjustments.

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Better Place Debuts EV Services Platform and Partners at Frankfurt Motor Show

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Better Place introduced its electric vehicle (EV) services platform at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in conjunction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with Quickdrop (switchable) battery system and an expanded agreement with Renault, committing both companies to a volume of at least 100,000 electric cars in Israel and Denmark by 2016.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas. The next step was to actually build it. Yet another experimental controller uses two hormones—insulin, to lower blood-glucose levels, and glucagon, to raise it. But such testing is time consuming and costly.

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