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The Robot That Ate the Pool Boy
A cable-free pool robot turned into a global category leader, a Fluidra check, and a plan to automate the entire backyard. Here is how Aiper got the pool boy out of the pool.
Apollon
Apollon is a Korean-American medtech company building MOGLU, a needle-free continuous glucose monitor that reads blood sugar through the skin using Raman spectroscopy instead of a subcutaneous filament. Founded in Seoul in 2021 by Aram Hong and researchers tied to MIT and Asan Medical Center, the company is developing a compact wearable that reported accuracy comparable to leading CGMs in early MIT clinical testing, has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device designation, and won a 2025 CES Innovation Award.
lululab Inc.
lululab Inc. is a South Korean beauty-and-healthcare AI company spun off from Samsung Electronics' C-Lab incubator in 2017. Its Lumini platform uses deep-learning computer vision to analyze a person's facial skin across seven categories - wrinkles, pores, acne, sebum, melasma, redness, and oil/moisture balance - from a single photo in about ten seconds, then recommends tailored products and routines. Built on a database of more than five million skin data points with claimed accuracy above 90%, lululab sells AI kiosks (Lumini Kiosk), a home device (Lumini Home), and an embeddable mobile SDK (Lumini SDK) to retailers, clinics, and brands worldwide.
WHILL
WHILL designs and manufactures intelligent personal electric vehicles - sleek power chairs and an autonomous mobility service - that reframe the wheelchair as a piece of consumer technology. Founded in 2012 by three Japanese engineers from Nissan, Sony and Olympus, the company sells the Model C2 and Model F directly to consumers and operates an autonomous fleet service at airports including Haneda, Narita and Winnipeg.