Trends Identified

Predictive gene-based healthcare
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Kite Pharma/Gilead Sciences (US), 2andMe (US), Phenogen Sciences (US), Regeneron (US), Veritas Genetics (US).
2018
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Automated knowledge discovery
Example of Organizationsactive in the area:2 IBM (US).
2018
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Autonomous robotic surgery
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Intuitive Surgical (US), Verb Surgical/Alphabet/Johnson & Johnson (US), Da Vinci Surgery (US).
2018
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Emotionally aware machines
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: IBM (US), Toyota (Japan), Mimosys (Japan), Persado (US), Joy AI (US).
2018
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Humanoid sex robots
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Realbotix (US), True Companion (US).
2018
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Human bio-hacking
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: BioTeq (UK), Grindhouse Wetwear (US), Dangerous Things (US), see also The Eyeborg Project and the Cyborg Foundation.
2018
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Internet of DNA
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Alphabet/Google Genomics (US), Amazon (US), Illumina (US), Oxford Nanopore Technologies/Metrichor (UK).
2018
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Thought control - machine interfaces
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: CTRL-Labs (US), Emotiv (US), Neuralink (US), maybe Facebook (US).
2018
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Dream reading & recording
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: No example found.
2018
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Whole earth virtualisation
Example of Organizationsactive in the area: Improbable (UK).
2018
Table of disruptive technologies
Imperial College London