What is Deep Tech?

The term #deeptech has been around for a while, but feels recently to be given real life as more startups launch into the market doing things typically reserved for big industry. Its an exciting time to work in the area.

Here I explore, "What is Deep Tech?" and where some example companies fall on the Deep Tech Market spectrum.

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[Sam-gddm]

Your channel is absolutely gold. The other day I started thinking on these two types of tech you mentioned, but had absolutely no clue it was already a named trend. Your channel is really giving me inspiration and new ideas for the future. And hopefully, once I'm done studying engineering I'll put some of these ideas into practice, and I'll remember how on a certain level I owe it to your videos.

[siddyrock]

I appreciate your videos both those which offer your perspective as a postdoc moving out of academia, and those on interesting research topics and applications. They’re thoughtful and well produced, and I hope you continue to find time to share your insight here

[kapileshwarsrikanth]

Hello. I stumbled across this video as I was researching about deep tech. I stand across in the generalist spectrum where I do want to get wide array of knowledge and apply them. Deep tech seems like more of a specialist zone.
I was researching deep tech as I was really fascinated about this concept. I aspire to have a large scale contribution in the future and most of my current ideas are overly focused on shallow tech. I am a 19 year old and I am currently self learning systems thinking, design thinking and will be pursuing mechanical engineering so that I will get a broad understanding of various disciplines. Could you please provide me insights the future industries that I could tap into?

Would be amazing if I could get in touch with you?

[michaeladeleye]

Very insightful. Completely worth the time.

[ShricharanArumugam]

For the quality of videos you make I don’t know how you have such low views. I have subscribed and shared this channel, keep it up!

[lozenges]

thank you very much for your interesting explanation about deep tech. only after you explain now i understand what deep tech is.

[justanotherperson]

This is a well-made video, needs more exposure out here. Space tech is rarely considered in the content creator space (pardon the pun).

[ramkumarr]

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are considered deep tech due to their complex algorithms and underlying technologies.

RPA involves the automation of repetitive, rule-based tasks through software robots or bots. While the concept of automation is not new, RPA employs advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to mimic human actions, making it a deep tech solution.

NLP, on the other hand, deals with the interaction between computers and human (natural) languages. It involves understanding, interpreting, and generating human language in a valuable way. NLP applications range from chatbots and virtual assistants to sentiment analysis and language translation. NLP utilizes deep learning and other advanced techniques to process and understand the complexities of human language.

Both RPA and NLP require sophisticated algorithms, machine learning models, and computational power, placing them firmly within the realm of deep tech.

[tokyorain]

Totally forgot I subbed, but glad I did.

[kuramainfinite]

You're great but underrated. Subscribed!
Loved "future belongs to scientists"

[ramkumarr]

Instead of actually a deep tech construction material we can change our video call background. Is that a good example? Or instead of developing new clothing we can use Gen AI to clothes the person in any clothing we want digitally? Same for cosmetics and photography filters.

[OwenWithAHammer]

Great video! Deep tech is a fun word! I worry students are discouraged from pursuing deep tech as a result of deadlines, risking the entirety of your student loans, education and career on a moonshot paper idea seems stupid. Especially when most of the potential rewards are so far removed from the researcher.

It reminds me of a video on neural nets that I watched, an AI in mario kart was given a -100 penalty for falling off the edge of the track, but not enough of a reward for moving forward, so the AI learned their best bet was to just sit there, or to move extremely slowly, because it was too scared to take any risks, as a result of the penalties far outweighing the potential rewards. Mario learned to drive forward after the penalties where reduced or incentives increased. (Source "MariFlow" & "MariQ")

Your distinction between shallow and deep tech was really spot on, I personally find the difference to be whether or not you can build your invention with parts that are already mass produced, and simply assemble them together, or if new recipes and factories must be designed and built to mass manufacture the components necessary to build your device.

It's easy to buy a bunch of components and assemble them, it's a lot harder to design and build the components to then assemble into a single object. On a software level, this means any program that simply interfaces between preexisting libraries would be shallow, whereas the requirement of brand new untested algorithms would be deep.

The best way to do deep tech in my experience is incrementally. Lets say I need IPMCs for my MMRs, it's in my best interest to mass produce and sell IPMCs to other companies, then start incorporating them into my robots. Don't try to do too many new things at once, go one step at a time and make a profit along the way.

If anyone of your startups ever mass manufacture IPMCs give me a call, I need a lot, so does the rest of the world.

[raulmartins]

Hi Ben, I hope you find well, and thanks for your expertise share. Regarding deep tech, can you go "deeply" into Quantum Computing in the next video? Sy

[yassinebouchoucha]

6:25 I want to believe that's it's much easier to teach phd some business stuff than teaching a serial entrepreneur about Quantum Mechanic, Nano Tech... but the nowadays reality tell the complete opposite.

[GreenLight]

my deep tek idea was before the big the big band was consciousness the point it even made hard matter ie that humans are hard wired like every other living thing into consciousness vibration is on a higher vibration than say a worm. To solve out problems all we need to do is....feel the is tricky! especially as you get older and get more complex ....because as you get more complex you realize that the solution to everything is just love am I just too high right now!

[mayurkanth]

How many deeptech unicorns are there in world????

[Rick-tbo]

this guy is the human version of 🤓 emoji