Medtronic's acquisition of Mazor ranks among the largest deals in Israel completed in 2018.

Early-stage startups to take part in Xcelerator, launched by the Shin Bet and TAU Ventures, each earning a $50,000 grant and mentoring by security experts.

January 11, 2018 | OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, announced on Thursday that it was launching a new, global $100 million fund for early-stage startups that specialize in artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, and digital manufacturing. The fund, Cognitiv Ventures, will give investors access to roughly 20 companies, with initial investments in EquityX, an online […]

If you think robots are designed by engineers only, think again. Dr. Guy Hoffman is variously a musician, academic, animator and teacher. And his TED talk on robots in October 2013 in Jaffa, possibly turned him into the world's only roboticist superstar.

Once, talking to machines was considered madness or science fiction. Then, speech recognition came along and made it commonplace. Now, Israeli robot Kip 1 is another step forward – it can understand the tone of the speaker's voice – and react accordingly.

In the outskirts of Caesarea, once a jewel in the Roman-empire's crown and now a posh town in Israel, stands Mazor Robotics' factory. There, the future of surgery is being built, with the Revolutionary Renaissance surgical robot.

Israeli researchers from Ben Gurion University are the only non-Americans to take part in DARPA's project of designing next-generation rescue robots. The Israeli team will be in charge of designing the software for the humanoid robot.