XPANCEO

XPANCEO is a deep tech company that develops an invisible and weightless smart contact lens as the ultimate computing platform for the AI era.

XPANCEO is a deep tech company that develops an invisible and weightless smart contact lens as the ultimate interface for AI-powered XR computing. Our contact lens reinvents the whole concept of human-technology interaction and redefines the way we experience both real and digital worlds, including social media, content consumption, and gaming. By merging all your gadgets into one, the smart conta

ct lens transforms the everyday into an infinite XR experience, replete with advanced real-time health monitoring and comprehensive practical recommendations, superpowers like night vision and zoom, and cutting-edge privacy and security measures.

23/06/2026

China, here we come.

XPANCEO is heading to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026, one of the world’s key meeting points for business leaders, policymakers, scientists, and founders shaping what comes next.

On June 24, Roman Axelrod will join two sessions at the Forum. At the “Global Innovation Exchange: Startups Across Borders” roundtable, he’ll discuss what it really takes for deep-tech companies to move from a local breakthrough to global scale when the old playbook no longer works.

Later, on the “When Thought Becomes an Interface” panel, Roman will share how the next wave of computing will reshape the way humans evolve alongside technology.

For XPANCEO, this is more than another event — it’s a chance to put smart contact lenses at the center of a global conversation about innovation, growth, and what comes after today’s devices.

See you in Dalian.

📆 June 23–25, 2026
📍 Dalian, People’s Republic of China

21/05/2026

For many people, health monitoring has become part of daily life. That doesn’t mean it has become comfortable. Needles, blood samples, bulky devices, frequent hospital visits — many monitoring technologies still demand too much effort from the people who rely on them most.

Tear fluid is rarely seen as a source of health data. Yet it carries far more biological information than most people realize, even though concentrations are low enough that reading it accurately remains a real engineering challenge.

Glucose monitoring is one part of the picture. For the 830 million people living with diabetes, and the many more at risk, it remains invasive and uncomfortable.

Tear fluid contains glucose as well, and tear glucose has been shown to reflect blood glucose trends, with a natural physiological delay of around 10–15 minutes. We are developing a smart contact lens that reads glucose from tear fluid — the same way a home glucometer works, using electrochemical sensing.

For medications with serious side effects, knowing whether the previous dose is still active can be critical, and tear fluid can help answer that question too.

The contact lens is worn as usual and at the end of the day, is placed into a standard contact lens container: a compact reading device with a built-in spectrometer. Molecule concentrations in tear fluid are extremely low, which is why the contact lens uses proprietary gold nanoparticles to amplify the signal, so that the spectrometer can identify molecules by the way each one absorbs and reflects light.

This is only the beginning of what tear fluid can reveal. The same approach could be extended to hormones, vitamins, and other biomarkers. We believe the next generation of health technology should work more naturally with the body, rather than demand constant effort from the people using it.

14/05/2026

CNN visited the XPANCEO lab to see where the future of computing may begin.

Roman Axelrod and Valentyn Volkov presented some of our first-in-the-world prototypes and spoke about the next major shift in human-technology interaction: moving away from devices we constantly stare at and toward an intelligent layer that integrates into life much more naturally.

Watch the full interview and lab tour on CNN — link in the comments.

30/04/2026

Smart contact lenses need power, but traditional batteries can leak, swell, or overheat.

That’s why we’re working with ITEN to develop a custom solid-state microbattery built for this challenge. The proof of concept is complete. Now we’re building a battery designed specifically for smart contact lenses because, guess what: you can't buy one on the market. Yet.

10/04/2026

Eye tracking — without power, infrared, or extra hardware

XPANCEO has developed a passive eye-tracking technology for smart contact lenses that achieves ~0.3° precision using standard cameras.

Instead of infrared illumination and complex hardware, the system uses microscopic optical patterns embedded in the lens. As the eye moves, these patterns shift, enabling accurate gaze tracking through simple camera input.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀:

• Clinical applications: early detection of neurological conditions through subtle eye movement patterns
• Human-computer interaction: seamless, hands-free control for XR/AR systems
• Extreme environments: real-time cognitive and fatigue monitoring in aviation, automotive, and industrial settings

Read more in the article published in Advanced Functional Materials. Link in the comments.

02/04/2026

XPANCEO now has its own internal AI toolkit — a secure workspace where the team can experiment with the latest LLM systems from leading providers, including Gemini, Claude, Grok, and ChatGPT, all within our information perimeter.

This system is becoming a core layer of how we work with knowledge, research, and ex*****on.

The toolkit already includes:

• a growing library of prompts and skills
• a searchable knowledge base connected to internal documentation
• agents that accelerate the work of our R&D team
• a smart patent search tool
• an HR assistant

All of it runs inside our information perimeter, meaning that the team can explore ideas with AI without sending sensitive work outside the company. For a deep tech company, this is crucial.

We spend a lot of time thinking about what the AI era of computing will demand — technically, scientifically, structurally. Our R&D team has already published research on using AI to discover new materials. So, as they say, practice what you build for.

31/03/2026

Millions already wear contact lenses. Few dare to imagine their potential. At MWC, we showed how smart contact lenses could unlock real-world use cases across medicine and frontier environments, disrupting billion-dollar industries.

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴
A non-invasive approach to tracking medication activity in the body. The lens is worn during the day, then placed into a compact reader that analyzes the spectral signature of target molecules. This could support treatment adjustment in areas such as cancer care and thrombosis, where therapies can be complex and side effects severe.

𝗔𝗥 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Designed for environments where bulky smart glasses aren’t practical — from aviation and space missions to racing. The system combines a smart contact lens with a helmet-based companion device that projects AR content through a holographic optical setup.

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
A prototype aimed to make glaucoma monitoring much more accessible. The system detects subtle intraocular pressure changes and is designed to work with a simple smartphone selfie, helping move monitoring beyond occasional clinic visits.

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
A vision for seamless, secure identity verification. The prototype demonstrates how a smart contact lens could support authentication for payments, eSIM activation, restricted-access environments, as well as continuous anti-cheat verification in e-sports.

Smart contact lenses aren’t just a new wearable. At XPANCEO, we’re building the ultimate invisible computing platform for the AI era. It’s an entirely new interface layer, one that can bring sensing, display, and identity functions into a form factor already familiar to millions of people.

30/03/2026

MWC 2026 may be behind us, but discussions around the technologies presented are ongoing. XPANCEO continues to be highlighted in industry overviews as one of the most interesting developments from the event.

A recent article by The Gadgeteer perfectly captured the essence of what we aimed to demonstrate at the event:

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐖𝐂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐲."

They are absolutely right. A goal as massive as completely redefining how humanity interacts with technology cannot be anything less than highly ambitious — both in our vision and our timelines. However, it is precisely our deep research and the successful convergence of components that prove we are confidently moving towards this goal and will achieve it.

This perspective is widely shared across the industry. Leading publications like Tom's Guide and Wareable have similarly recognized XPANCEO among the most interesting and standout technologies showcased in Barcelona — links to the roundups are in the comments below.

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