CU Startup News
Interesting Engineering鈥擳he primary goal of soft robotics is to achieve smooth and complex movement by mimicking the locomotion of soft bodies found in the environment. Researchers at CU Boulder and CU Boulder startup Artimus Robotics are leading innovation with a new type of "artificial muscle" to enable life-like movements.
New Iridium鈥擭ew Iridium was awarded $1M NSF SBIR Phase II grant to advance its photocatalysis platform to produce low-carbon chemicals at a lower cost the today鈥檚 incumbent processes.
In taking its technology from the lab to the streets, Solid Power is changing how electric vehicles run with less expensive, more efficient and safer battery technology.
Say 鈥渉ello鈥 to the robots of the future: They鈥檙e soft and flexible enough to bounce off walls or squeeze into tight spaces. And when you鈥檙e done with them, you can toss these machines into a compost bin to decompose.
Chemical Engineering鈥擳he partnership with New Iridium focuses on CO2聽conversion via photocatalysis, the startup鈥檚 expertise, which is an innovative solution based on the use of light sources (for example, LEDs) and CO2聽from industrial emissions in combination with low-cost raw materials.
What if improving one鈥檚 athletic performance through supplements was simpler and more affordable? What if, instead of producing emissions, airplanes could take carbon out of the air? These ideas and more are realities in the making, thanks to many aspiring entrepreneurs who pitched their products at the 16th annual New Venture Challenge (NVC) finals.
Scientists from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose disease using exhaled breath, reporting that a new laser-based breathalyzer鈥攂orn of Nobel Prize-winning technology from CU鈥攑owered by artificial intelligence (AI) can detect COVID-19 in real-time with excellent accuracy.
Endpoints News鈥擮nKure Therapeutics has lined up $60 million in a new private funding round, adding to the CU Boulder spinout鈥檚 bank account as it works through a Phase II trial. The startup is attempting to create an inhibitor of histone deacetylases, or HDACs, which are DNA-manipulating enzymes that alter how genes get expressed.
US Department of Energy鈥擮MC Hydrogen, a CU Boulder spinout from Professor Alan W. Weimer's lab,聽won first place聽at the US聽Department of Energy's (DOE) Most Epic Cleantech Pitch Competition. The company is developing green hydrogen technology that eliminates the significant carbon emissions found in other hydrogen production methods.
On two exciting nights of pitches and prizes, ten startups brought a broad range of ideas to the stage, including how to live and garden more sustainably, how to deal with the downsides of social media, how to offer practical prosthetics for kids鈥攁nd sustainable water filters and hydroponic produce for all. Across the two events, eight teams took home a total of $20,000 to develop their ideas further.