TopTable (CEO Hyunjoo Yoo) will receive the Best Innovation Award in the Food & AgTech category and the Innovation Award in the Smart Home category at CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9th to January 12th (Friday, local time) next year. He said he had received it.
TopTable is a company established in December 2019 with the goal of developing a 3D food printing system in the food tech field. It has been leading the research and development of hardware, food iink solutions, and dedicated software in the field, and provides a customized food manufacturing production system by liinking DX, IoT, and AI-based big data.
The 4D food printing system ‘iink’ is a personalized nutrition provision system that can create customized foods including texture, size, and nutritional ingredients. A bead print of a composite material that specifies the melting point within the human body forms a dynamic structure that is encapsulated through an interaction mechanism with the liquid in the bottle. It goes beyond existing 3D printing technology and uses advanced software, food iink, structural design, and 4 This is a technology that can set the melting point of customized nutrients in the human body through combination with dimensional stimulants (pH, time, heat, etc.).
Additionally, unlike existing mass-produced, pre-made products, it can provide food tailored to individual tastes, bridging the gap between mass production and individual choice, providing a new level of creativity and dietary customization.
We also developed an AI-based model to predict success rate by building a database of printing process parameters for each material. Unlike other printing sectors, the food printing sector is experiencing difficulties in market acceptance due to the variety of materials and properties. The company explains that it has introduced an AI-based IoT operating system to solve this problem.
A company official said, “The iink strengthens the nutrient design for the stomach or intestines. “Gastro-digestive vitamins interact with stomach acid to release their ingredients, and enterically absorbed nutrients use encapsulation to avoid gastric acid breakdown and optimize the absorption site,” he said. “This customizes nutrient delivery and improves absorption efficiency. Therefore, 4D printing technology will present various application possibilities in the field of customized medicine manufacturing in the future,” he explained.
TopTable received the Innovation Award at CES 2023 for ‘Foodian’, which creates food according to the ingredients, shape, and texture desired by consumers by reflecting food composition and nutritional data based on CAD design. At CES 2024, iink received the ‘Best Innovation Award’, a prestigious award given to only 27 companies worldwide.
Regarding future plans for iink, a company official said, “We have implemented a demonstration project with the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2023 with an iink system that combines customized, health functional food, and household elements, and are conducting additional projects in two nursing homes in Jeonbuk. “We will promote mass production by reinforcing the Life Log System through a combination of quantitative measurement elements and AI in 2024.” “We plan to provide customized nutritional services.”
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The CES 2024 Seoul Unified Hall will be operated at the largest scale in terms of exhibition area, number of participating companies, and number of participating supporters since Seoul City’s first participation in CES in 2020. The Seoul Integration Center, in which 13 organizations collaborate and participate, is an important step in Seoul’s efforts to make Seoul a mecca for startups, and 17 of the companies participating in the Seoul Integration Center proved this by receiving innovation awards. The participating institutions in the Seoul Unification Center are ▲SBA ▲Seoul Bio Hub ▲Campus Town ▲AI Yangjae Hub ▲Gwanak-gu ▲Yonsei University ▲Korea University ▲Chung-Ang University ▲Sogang University ▲Kookmin University ▲Hanyang University ▲Konkuk University ▲Kyunghee University. Not only the Seoul Metropolitan Government, institutions, and companies, but also supporters through industry-academia cooperation are matched 1:1 with companies, and 85 supporters, the largest number, will participate.
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