Tag: industry 4.0

On May 17th on the main Estonian startup conference Latitude59 we announced the winners of Prototron springround at the main-stage of Latitude59. 4 teams got 60 000 € to turn their ideas into reality.

The biggest grant – 25 000€ was given to Lumebot – a self-driving snow removal robots are more than 10x cheaper to make than snow plows. This allows each parking lot to have a dedicated snow removal robot(s). Through continuous work, it is able to keep the parking lot clean 24/7. Autonomous snow removal robots that start working as soon as it starts snowing.

10 000€ was worth the idea of Futuclass – an educational virtual reality game that brings awesome science experiences to classrooms. A game where players solve interesting and fun pre-made science puzzles and learn by doing. Science experiments in VR are cheap, safe and easily accessible. Like Rakett69, but in VR.

Team Unsinkable Robotics got 20 000 to build an underwater robot that could perform several tasks underwater without an operator. The robots reduce the need for divers to perform dangerous and time consuming tasks such as mine detection.

Kibu.energy wants to empower the inhabitants of the smart city in the usage of renewable energy by offering a foldable solar panel that can be deployed in balconies, terraces or gardens. It integrates storage and can be plugged in directly to a wall socket.

Autumnround is less than 5 months from now. Get inspired and apply before October 15th.

Prototyping foundation Prototron’s 19th application round was focused on digitalisation. About 200 ideas were submitted, and the most useful ones for people and industry made it to the final top. Four teams received funding, the total sum was 30 000 EUR.

“All the teams competing for Prototron’s funding come from different areas. Still, they have something very important in common – their ideas and solutions are really surprising. The teams managed to make technology useful for people and industries, solving problems in unexpected areas”, said Prototron CEO Jana Pavlenkova.

FoodDocs team is working on a cloud-based self-check plan for restaurants, cafes and other companies dealing with food. This makes document management easier and gives a better overview. Funding received: 5 000 EUR.

VirtualFX received 10 000 EUR from Prototron, in order to develop a VR-based cognitive rehabilitation solution. This could help patients with brain trauma to experience different situations in virtual reality, instead of going through current situations “in theory”. The solution will raise effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation method.

Eziil team received 5 000 EUR, in order to develop a production intellect – a desktop for industry director, which helps make visual work plans and spread the information to all workers’ smart devices. This artificial intelligence could learn from the user’s previous actions and in the future would automatically suggest the best possible action plans.

Prototron’s sponsoring partner Elering awarded 10 000 EUR to the FuseBox team, so they could test their solution for helping electric networks. From the environmental point of view, producing reneqable energy is becoming more important, but is unstable and overloading the energy networks. A more flexible energy use could be the solution, with temporary switching off systems that use too much energy (e.g. heating or cooling systems). And FuseBox team is now developing this very solution.

Prototyping foundation Prototron has supported teams who develop smart solutions for the 19th time. The awarding took place today at sTARTUp Day in Tartu. So far in total, 56 idea prototypes have been supported in total amount more than 700 000 EUR.

Prototron’s partners are Utilitas, Hedman Partners and Elering.
Applications for the next round can be submitted up to March 15th online at www.prototron.ee/en.