I'm Elise Hew. This is TED Talks Daily. We're about to learn about deep tech and its potential.

In his 2020 talk from TED at BCG, Deep Tech diver Antoine Gorovich explains what is deep tech, why it matters, and its promise all over the globe for space exploration, for engineering,

for biology, and more. As he says, it changes what we once thought of as impossible

to suddenly possible today.

I discovered a story that is swiftly changing our world. A story that has the power to change the way we produce material.

The way we eat and the way we heal.

It is a story of deep tech.

Deep tech is a new chapter in the innovation story, bringing together science, engineering and design thinking.

Imagine if another global pandemic happens and a drug to combat it was developed and approved, not in decades or years, but in months or even in weeks,

deep tech offers this potential.

Emerging technologies like robotics, synthetic biology, nanomaterial, blockchain, quantum computing, and many others,

when combined with each other and blended with engineering and design science,

are making what seemed impossible, possible.

So, what is deep tech?

I spent the last 18 months visiting 100 research labs and startups from Shenzhen in China to Haifa in Israel.

And this is what I learned about deep tech ventures.

They focus on fundamental issues.

Identifying physical constraints of industries not solved for decades.

For example, in energy, nuclear fusion,

in mobility, air robotaxi.

They work at the crossroad of emerging technologies,

like synthetic biology, quantum programming,

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