Global tech firm enters UAE market, unveils smart solutions – Gulf Today

Global tech firm enters UAE market, unveils smart solutions – Gulf Today

XPANCEO team pose for a group photo.

Staff Reporter, Gulf Today

The international Deep tech company XPANCEO officially opened a laboratory in Dubai and publicly presented three intermediate prototypes of a revolutionary smart contact lens for the first time. Ultimately, the company aims to create a device as thin, invisible, and weightless as traditional lenses, seamlessly integrating AR, health monitoring, and supervision features.

Fitting a plethora of components needed for this project such as micro projectors, biosensors, and power electronics into a small, comfortable lens is a challenge. XPANCEO’s R&D team, uniting 40 scientists and engineers from leading universities and research centers worldwide, has moved away from traditional tech, utilizing novel low-dimensional materials as thin as an atom, advanced optics and nanophotonics, and transparent, flexible conductors. XPANCEO’s renowned research has placed it among the top 10 global corporate research institutes making it the top 1 in the UAE, according to the authoritative Nature Index ranking. Founded by entrepreneur Roman Axelrod and physicist Valentyn Volkov in 2021, XPANCEO has created three “first-in-the-world” prototypes in under 3 years.

“We are developing the next generation of computing, the ultimate device that merges all existing gadgets into one. It will allow one to use