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PORTUGAL WEB SUMMIT START UPS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS / RoboSculptor / Acrylic Robotics / Hybrid-Airplane Technologies
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Associated Press
Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
1. Various of exterior of Web Summit venue at Altice Arena in Lisbon
2. Videowall screens inside Web Summit
3. People walking inside
4. Close of sign on Hybrid-Airplane Technologies booth
5. Various of Csaba Singer, CEO at Hybrid-Airplane Technologies showing his product on laptop
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Csaba Singer, CEO at Hybrid-Airplane Technologies:
“We invented a new flight concept which is a combination of balloon, helicopter and aeroplane and we used the advantages of each and avoided the disadvantages. So, it’s a new flight concept, a sustainable green one, actually a system that is carrying digital data collecting payloads almost without the usage of high amounts of energy for lifting.”
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7. Various of video showing Hybrid-Airplane flying
Associated Press
Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Csaba Singer, CEO at Hybrid-Airplane Technologies:
“The targeted users are mainly in the field of Earth observation. That means climate, disaster areas, catastrophic areas, task forces, inspections, forestry and agriculture. So, simply seeing from the air, getting data, analysing the data and making the processes more efficient.”
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9. Various of video showing Hybrid-Airplane flying
Associated Press
Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
10. Chloe Ryan, CEO at Acrylic Robotics at laptop
11. Close of pictures in laptop
12. Close of Web Summit badge with Chloe’s name
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Chloe Ryan, CEO at Acrylic Robotics:
“We’re trying to build the world’s first way to make painted art at scale. The problem that we’re solving is that there’s not really anything in between flat IKEA style photo prints and prohibitively expensive artist originals that are fantastic, but that most people can’t afford. We’re trying to fill that middle market. What we do is we train robots to paint for artists, so we’re for artists by artists.”
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14. Various of robot painting
15. Close of picture painted by robot
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Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Chloe Ryan, CEO at Acrylic Robotics:
“How the technology works is, we track our distress strokes on a digital tablet, so you can imagine an artist on an iPad. And then we have actual robotic arms that dip in paint and redo those strokes on canvas, allowing us to work with the artists to create a whole limited edition collection of painted replicas at a higher scale, targeting that middle market.”
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17. Various of robot painting
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Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
18. Close of sign on booth RoboSculptor
19. Dennis Ledenkof, CEO at Robosculptor talking to an attendee
20. Close of tablet screen showing RoboSculptor video
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Ledenkof, CEO at Robosculptor:
“The Robosculptor is a robotic body therapy complex that enables people to get a treatment autonomously. So, we use a method of fibre compression with spheres for body treatment that delivers lymphatic drainage, skin rejuvenation, volume reduction and that without assistance.”
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22. Various of RoboSculptor in action
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Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023A
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Ledenkof, CEO and co-founder at Robosculptor:
“I don’t think that the machine can substitute the warmth of human hands, but I’m assured that the method can help to make massage more affordable for more people and make it more accessible.”
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24. Various of RoboSculptor in action
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Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Ledenkof, CEO and co-founder at Robosculptor:
“We expect that the clients will be households who take care of their privacy because the machine accommodates to the privacy consideration, gender consideration. No one touches you except for the robot. And the main market for this machine may be wellness resorts, hotels, spas, fitness studios, aesthetic clinics.”
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26. Various of RoboSculptor in action
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Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal – 15 November 2023
27. Wide of people next to startup booths
28. Various of robotic garbage composter
29. Wide of booth showing underwater drone
30. Close of small underwater drone
31. Various of startup booths
32. Wide pan of crowded Web Summit pavilion
33. Wide of people walking inside pavilion
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A painting robot and one that can give you a full body massage are among the latest tech on display at the Portugal Web Summit in Lisbon.
The creations are aimed at bringing down the cost of art and wellness services while achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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More than 70,000 visitors have filed into Lisbon to attend talks, network with the industry, and see the latest new technologies at the Portugal Web Summit.
The event’s Impact initiative brings together startups from all over the world looking to advance UN Sustainable Development Goals.
One such is Hybrid-Airplane Technologies – that has combined air balloon, helicopter and aeroplane tech to make a new eco drone.
“We invented a new flight concept which is a combination of balloon, helicopter and aeroplane and we used the advantages of each and avoided the disadvantages. So, it’s a new flight concept, a sustainable green one, actually a system that is carrying digital data collecting payloads almost without the usage of high amounts of energy for lifting,” says Dr. Csaba Singer, the CEO of Hybrid-Airplane Technologies.
“The targeted users are mainly in the field of Earth observation. That means climate disaster areas, catastrophic areas, task forces, inspections, forestry and agriculture. So simply seeing from the air, getting data, analysing the data and making the processes more efficient.”
Back on land, new robots are being put forward as a means to bring down the cost of art and wellness services.
Acrylic Robotics claims their technology will turn everyday homes, offices and public spaces into galleries with the splendour of the Louvre, the MOMA and the Met at a fraction of the cost, all while supporting independent artists.
“We’re trying to build the world’s first way to make painted art at scale.,” says company CEO Chloe Ryan.
“The problem that we’re solving is that there’s not really anything in between flat IKEA style photo prints and prohibitively expensive artist originals that are fantastic, but that most people can’t afford. We’re trying to fill that middle market. What we do is we train robots to paint 4 artists, so we’re four artists by artists.”
From masters of art to masseurs with meticulous precision, startup Robosculptor is presenting
its robotic system designed to bring down the cost of having beauty treatments.
“The Robosculptor is a robotic body therapy complex that enables people to get a treatment autonomously,” explains Dennis Ledenkof, CEO and co-founder of Robosculptor.
“So, we use a method of fibre compression with spheres or body treatment that delivers lymphatic drainage, skin rejuvenation, volume reduction and that without assistance.”
While Ledenkof accepts that the robot’s massage arm may not be as warm as the hands of human masseur, he’s confident that the robot could help make massage more affordable and accessible.
“We expect that the clients will be households who take care of their privacy because the machine accommodates to the privacy consideration, gender consideration. No one touches you except for the robot. And the main market for this machine may be wellness resorts, hotels, spas, fitness studios, aesthetic clinics,” he says.
A record breaking 2,608 startups from 93 countries are showcasing their innovations at the summit.
According to organisers, Web Summit has brought 70,236 attendees from all over the world to
the Altice Arena to discuss and debate ideas for the future.
The cohort of CEOs, startups, investors, media, policymakers and creatives are taking part in nearly 1,200 investor-to-startup meetings, 70 masterclasses, and 17 pitching competition rounds.
The event is taking place following the resignation of its former CEO, Irish entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave.
Cosgrave resigned following a controversy around his tweets on recent events unfolding in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
At the time, Cosgrave tweeted suggesting Israel was committing war crimes following the October 7 attacks by Hamas. Backlash and an Israeli boycott followed.
Faced with a growing boycott from startups and some key sponsors, Cosgrave resigned, saying that his “personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend.”
His resignation came a few days after he released a long message denouncing the Hamas attacks and apologizing for the timing of his initial tweet while defending his overall views on the conflict.
But companies continued withdrawing from the conference, including Google, Meta, German tech conglomerate Siemens, and U.S. chipmaker Intel.
The newly-appointed head of the event Katherine Maher was previously CEO at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Organisers say women make up 43% of attendees and 38% of speakers – the highest proportion of women speakers ever seen at the event.
Women founders make up almost one-third of all exhibiting startup founders.
Web Summit runs until 16 November 2023.
AP Video by Jorge Jeronimo
Production by Filipe Bento
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