With groundbreaking innovations in frontier fields such as artificial intelligence, healthtech, and sustainability, three Hong Kong companies each received an annual Innovation Awards at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which wrapped up on Friday.
This year’s CES featured the largest-ever participation from Hong Kong, with 61 technology companies exhibiting. Over a dozen international brands, industry leaders, and investors have visited the Hong Kong Tech Pavilion to explore collaboration opportunities.
“This celebration of Hong Kong’s I&T via the global platform like CES demonstrates our city’s unique convergence of cutting-edge R&D, global talent and capital.” said Terry Wong, CEO of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp.
Widemount Dynamics Tech Ltd’s Smart Firefighting Robot has been named Best of Innovation in Support of Human Security. Using simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, an autonomous vehicle can create a map in a smoke-filled and low-visibility environment while locating the vehicle in the map at the same time without relying on GPS or vision.
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“We are seeing meaningful business leads emerging from CES, including early conversations about pilot deployments,” said Zhang Yuxin, Widemount’s chief information officer. She added that Hong Kong offers a strong environment for tech companies through its applied research capacity, engineering talent, and an ecosystem that facilitates the transition from research to deployment, as well as opportunities for international exposure.
Honored under the Digital Health category, Eieling Technology Ltd showcased its product FattaLab, an intelligence-driven compact fatty-liver diagnostic device. By incorporating the Auto Intra-Focus Fusion algorithm, the product can deliver assessment results with medical-grade accuracy in just 30 seconds.
Yu Ziyao, representative of Eieling Technology’s overseas markets, said that visitors showed great interest in how the product could be applied to primary healthcare and how to integrate diagnostic data into daily health management.
Yu said that FattaLab has already received orders from key overseas markets, including North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Hong Kong provides the company with a world-class research and development ecosystem, liberal market policies, and a trade network that enables global connectivity, Yu said.
PointFit Technology Ltd was also honored with an Innovation Award in the Digital Health category. The company specializes in ultrathin wearable skin patches that use patented biomarker-tracking technology, providing a noninvasive solution for continuous monitoring of vitals and performance for individuals.
“People have reached out to us even before the event,” said Kenny Oktavius, PointFit Technology’s co-founder and CEO. He said he believes the trend in healthcare development is to encourage users to take preventive measures while still in good health.
Oktavius also said that Hong Kong’s influence as an Asian hub and China’s manufacturing capabilities can jointly ensure rapid product iteration. “China’s manufacturing is both fast and high-quality, so if we want to change the design, the next version can be precisely what we need,” he said.
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