Techcare Innovation Empowering Stroke Recovery with I4.0 Robotic Technology
Reading Time: 6 minutesBY DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN STROKE is the leading cause of disability worldwide with 14.5 million stroke cases every year (WHO). A STROKE causes damage to our brain cells and robs us of mobility that we take for granted. Bending our fingers is effortless but not for a stroke patient who requires so […]
Biogenes – home-grown diagnostic kit maker hits major milestones
Reading Time: 5 minutesBY DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN THE pandemic changed a company’s playing field from developing aptamers or synthetic antibodies for animal healthcare to biosensors for Covid-19. What is unique is these aptamers are not designed in the wet laboratories but using computer modelling that could be downloaded by anyone and printed for validation in […]
Medika Natura’s Bioactive from Kacip Fatimah gets USFDA nod as a New Dietary Ingredient
Reading Time: 5 minutesBY DR MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI MALAYSIA has one of the oldest rainforests in the world and is globally well renowned as a tropical biodiversity hub. The country hosts hundreds of species of medicinal plants with a trove of indigenous knowledge on how to use these healing greens as a natural panacea. One of Malaysia’s […]
Giving back to the nation
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY JAYASYALINY JAYARAJ SERDANG: Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) conducted their first Industry 4.0 -based corporate social responsibility (CSR) for the year 2019 on 19, 21 and 25 November at the Centre of 9 Pillars (Co9P) as part of its initiative to give back to the nation. The half day CSR programmes involved workshops on […]
Local SMEs to soon be I4.0 competent globally
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY JAYASYALINY JAYARAJ BANGI: The Ministry of Entrepreneur Development (MED) and Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) through a strategic collaboration launched a pioneer project to prepare the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) towards utilisation of digital technology in their business. The launch of the project held on 9 December at Bangi Resort Hotel aims to […]
3D Gens spearheads 3D-printing application for medical sector
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JAYASYALINY JAYARAJ THE 3D-printing revolution is here. From guns and houses to prosthetic limbs and vehicle parts – if you can “think” it, you can print it. In fact any inanimate matter can be 3D-printed. Imagine being able to print a human kidney, or a brand new beating heart! 3D Gens Sdn Bhd, a […]
Peace of mind with Calms Technologies ®
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JAYASYALINY JAYARAJ Tell us about CALMS Technologies and its beginning. Established in 2002, CALMS Technologies—a home-grown company provides a cost effective, smart ID solutions which enables multi applications to function on a single platform. We started as a small company with only 3 staffs and now we hire almost 40 dedicated staffs, a great […]
Do not work in a silo ecosystem
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY JAYASYALINY JAYARAJ THE Chief Executive Officer of the MalaysianTechnology Development Corporation (MTDC), Dato’ Norhalim Yunus told participants at a panel discussion that government agencies and the private sector must quit working in a silo ecosystem. He said, they should instead come together as a united force and jointly pool their talents in order to […]
First D-8 hi-tech park in Malaysia by end-2020
Reading Time: 1 minuteTHE Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8) has proposed the establishment of its very first hightechnology industrial park in Malaysia by the end of 2020. D-8 is a 22-year-old global organisation with its headquarters in Istanbul. It was established for “development cooperation” among eight countries stretching from Southeast Asia to Africa (Malaysia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, […]
Primary school pupils engaged in robotics
Reading Time: 2 minutesIN CONJUNCTION with the MTDC Technology Conference and Exhibition (MTCE) 2019, MTDC co-organised an I4.0 Robotics & Drone Bootcamp and Competition with its partners, Politeknik Kota Kinabalu and Universiti Teknologi MARA. Over 90 participants from 11 primary schools, other educational and organisational institutions took part in the Robotics & Drone Bootcamp and Competition. The two-day […]