Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benefits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
Xerox and global partners reveal unexpected projects during Inside Innovation event at PARC
Xerox Corporation Press Release, April 29, 2008
Excerpts from the release:
From adding intelligence and automation to documents to breaking new frontiers in clean tech and biomedical domains, Xerox Corporation and its global innovation partners today lifted the curtain on a diverse set of innovative projects being nurtured in laboratories around the world.
“Our mission is to deliver innovations that solve the problems our customers face today while creating visionary technologies for tomorrow and beyond,” said Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group. “Technology touches our lives in major ways and is core to sustainable global growth. Scientists and engineers at Xerox are inspired by the significant impact their work will continue to have on our customers and our company and on society.”
The 2008 “Inside Innovation at Xerox” held here at the Palo Alto Research Center featured scientists from research centers in New York, Toronto, France, Palo Alto and Oregon as well as from partner labs in Tokyo at Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., and in Israel from XMPie, a Xerox software company. They showcased 10 new technologies including:
- Clean Tech. PARC scientists have designed better solar collectors and an innovative water filtration system as part of a comprehensive portfolio of clean tech projects that could be as revolutionary for the environment as PARC’s technologies were for the workplace.
- Biomedical/Rare Cell Detection. PARC is exploring innovations in biology and healthcare, including detection of rare cancer cells and molecular characterization of them to predict effective therapies.
- Greener Plastics...
- Advances in print heads...
- Intelligent redaction [.pdf]. Xerox and PARC scientists are developing easier ways to access and sort through content from massive amounts of documents, for what can or can’t be seen, printed or copied.
- Next generation categorization...
- Seamless documents...
- One-to-one communications technology...
- Higher dimensions of documents...
The projects reflect Xerox’s focus to make documents and document-intensive processes smarter and easier while leveraging its know-how to make a difference for its customers and communities.
Last year, Xerox was awarded 584 U.S. utility patents. Xerox holds about 8600 active U.S. patents and with its partner, Fuji Xerox, invests $1.4 billion a year in research and development...
Making a Difference in the World
Clean tech research is one of many projects resulting from Xerox’s collaborative approach to innovation. PARC researchers are applying their expertise in particle manipulation, honed through years of manipulating toner particles for Xerox printers, to develop novel methods for creating a sustainable environment, including less expensive solar energy; a membrane-free method of purifying water; and surprising ideas for new fuel sources...
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