Ocular

Optiark 2025 Update

IDTechEx attended an SPIE hosted webinar in December 2024, in which Optiark gave a business update.

Ocular Therapeutix

Ocular Therapeutix is a US-based biopharmaceutical company focusing on ophthalmic therapies.

AbbVie

AbbVie is a biopharmaceutical company, spun out of Abbott Laboratories in 2013.

Polaris Program Aims to Advance Human Spaceflight

The Polaris Program is a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities, while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes here on Earth. The program will consist of up to three human spaceflight missions that will demonstrate new technologies, conduct extensive research, and ultimately culminate in the first flight of SpaceX's Starship with humans on board.

3D Printing of Prosthetic Eyes

Not only is a 3D-printed prosthetic eye produced in a fraction of the time taken by the conventional process, but the resulting prosthesis also looks more realistic. This is made possible by the algorithms of Cuttlefish:Eye, a software solution from the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD.

Ocular Implant Delivering Glaucoma Treatment Over Six-Month Period

PolyActiva Pty Ltd, a clinical-stage Australian ophthalmology biopharmaceutical company, announced it has successfully completed its Phase I clinical study for its lead candidate, the Latanoprost FA SR Ocular Implant.

Impending Technological Innovations of AI in Medical Diagnostics

This article discusses key technological issues that AI image diagnostics companies face and provides a roadmap describing when and how they are likely to be overcome over the next decade, based on research conducted by IDTechEx in the report "AI in Medical Diagnostics 2020-2030: Image Recognition, Players, Clinical Applications, Forecasts".

Pr3vent

A spin-off of Stanford University based in Palo Alto, California, Pr3vent was founded in 2017 and has secured $1.5M in funding.

VUNO

VUNO provides a diverse array of services that quantifies and analyses data to diagnose diseases. These include imaging modalities such as X-rays and CT scans, as well as biosignal monitoring systems.

Eye Blinking on-a-Chip

A new approach could lead to 'cornea-on-a-chip' devices that more accurately test the effects of drugs on the human eye.

IDTechEx Attends Autosens: Latest Trends in Automotive Radars, Cameras

IDTechEx attended AutoSens 2019 in Brussels. The event took place at the car museum in Brussels. This event is focused on all future vehicle perception technologies including lidar, radar, and camera. It focuses on the hardware side as well as on the software and data processing side.

Phasya

Phasya: software to make judgements about physiological and cognitive state of drivers. Phasya is a firm specialized in offering a software portfolio aimed at monitoring several physiological and cognitive states.

AI for Quality Control of Stem Cell-Derived Tissues

Researchers used artificial intelligence to evaluate stem cell-derived "patches" of retinal pigment epithelium tissue for implanting into the eyes of patients with age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Ocular Robotics

Ocular Robotics offer lidar modules. The first RobotEye lidar product (REO5) was launched in 2012.

Optical sensor that detects very low glucose concentrations

The tool could be integrated into a smartphone and prevent people with diabetes from having to prick themselves to measure their glucose level.