The World Economic Forum's 2026 list highlights technologies moving from lab to scale in energy, health, materials, and security, including grid flexibility, lithium extraction, cooling coatings, PFAS breakdown, fermentation proteins, exosome delivery, mRNA vaccines, quantum drug modeling, world-model AI, and lattice cryptography. Recent trials and plants show early commercial traction across several entries.
Berkeley Lab has developed a first-of-its-kind AI-powered spectral sensor that identifies targets simultaneously as it captures images, embedding neural network classification directly into optical hardware to enable real-time detection without downstream computing, with applications spanning agriculture, defense, healthcare, and environmental monitoring.
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