The Perpetual Motion podcast visits the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition and talks with several of the 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes. 

Timestamps:

• 2:02 - GreenLIB: One-step pre-treatment process that extracts and refines critical battery elements
• 4:25 - Rora: Committed to bettering women’s health at every life stage by creating innovative products for menopause symptom management
• 8:10 - Safe Marine Transfer: Focused on safe subsea chemical injection to economically extend deepwater subsea tiebacks
• 13:01 - Xatoms: using AI and Quantum-Chemistry to discover new materials to clean polluted water
• 16:57 - Pinwheel: Designed for kids and managed by parents, this cool looking, modern phone helps kids grow into independent adults who use technology well
• 23:20 - Watermarked.ai: Disrupts AI model training with undetectable audio watermarks and detects AI-generated deepfakes
• 25:46 - Mito Robotics: AI-powered robotic system designed to automate research-scale cell culture