CES Innovation Awards: Inside the Winners Circle

Every year, CES announces its Innovation Awards for a whole host of tech categories. Out of the 2021 honorees, here are three that caught our eye.

Epsy Health: Epsy, a digital health app, connects patients and physicians for epilepsy management. Users can create a data “diary” to track seizures, triggers, and medication compliance—then, the platform uses data science to pick out trends and patterns for each patient’s unique situation. Foster told us this startup especially stood out to her.

The AI Captain: IBM teamed up with ProMare, a marine research nonprofit, to build “the AI Captain,” the tech behind the Mayflower Autonomous Ship that’s slated to cross the Atlantic in 2021—sans captain and crew. Its mission: Gather critical data on global warming, micro-plastic pollution, and marine mammal conservation (and serve as a test for future transportation and supply chain models).

Universal Disinfection Robot: “Coro-Bot,” created by an engineering team out of South Korea’s Hanseo University, comes with both an “articulated robot arm” to disinfect uneven surfaces and an air circulator (including a far-infrared ceramic filter) that sterilizes the air of viruses like Covid-19. The autonomous bot runs on a collision prevention algorithm and can “effectively disinfect every venue people use.”