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Scooping up Customers: Startup’s No-Code AI Gains Traction for Industrial Inspection

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Bill Kish founded Ruckus Wireless two decades ago to make Wi-Fi networking easier. Now, he’s doing the same for computer vision in industrial AI. In 2015, Kish started Cogniac, a company that offers a self-service computer vision platform and development support. Like in the early days of Wi-Fi deployment, the rollout of AI is challenging, Read article >

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Scooping up Customers: Startup’s No-Code AI Gains Traction for Industrial Inspection

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Bill Kish founded Ruckus Wireless two decades ago to make Wi-Fi networking easier. Now, he’s doing the same for computer vision in industrial AI. In 2015, Kish started Cogniac, a company that offers a self-service computer vision platform and development support. Like in the early days of Wi-Fi deployment, the rollout of AI is challenging, Read article >

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NVIDIA Builds Isaac AMR Platform to Aid $9 Trillion Logistics Industry

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Manufacturing and fulfillment centers are profoundly complex. Whenever new earbuds or socks land at your doorstep in hours or a vehicle rolls off an assembly line, a maze of magic happens with AI-driven logistics. Massive facilities like these are constantly in flux. Robots travel miles of aisles to roll up millions of products to assist Read article >

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Detect That Defect: Mariner Speeds Up Manufacturing Workflows With AI-Based Visual Inspection

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Imagine picking out a brand new car — only to find a chip in the paint, rip in the seat fabric or mark in the glass. AI can help prevent such moments of disappointment for manufacturers and potential buyers. Mariner, an NVIDIA Metropolis partner based in Charlotte, North Carolina, offers an AI-enabled video analytics system Read article >

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Top 5 Edge AI Trends to Watch in 2022

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2021 saw massive growth in the demand for edge computing — driven by the pandemic, the need for more efficient business processes, as well as key advances in the Internet of Things, 5G and AI. In a study published by IBM in May, for example, 94 percent of surveyed executives said their organizations will implement Read article >

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In Pursuit of Smart City Vision, Startup Two-i Keeps an AI on Worker Safety

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When Julien Trombini and Guillaume Cazenave founded video-analytics startup Two-i four years ago, they had an ambitious goal: improving the quality of urban life by one day being able to monitor a city’s roads, garbage collection and other public services. Along the way, the pair found a wholly different niche. Today, the company’s technology — Read article >

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NVIDIA at the Edge: Metropolis Edge AI-on-5G Platform Delivers Intelligent Video Analytics Over 5G

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Mavenir is announcing MAVedge-AI, a converged intelligent video analytics solution powered by the NVIDIA Metropolis AI-on-5G platform, which is expected to be available for customers in early 2022. Along with Mavenir “construction kit”, a quick-launch platform for small deployments, NVIDIA and Mavenir are delivering innovation in how intelligent edge networks are built. Enterprises and telcos Read article >

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Lights! Camera! Insight! Four Scenes From the Marriage of Computer Vision and Edge Computing

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Whether you’re managing stadiums, cities or global corporations, edge AI is critical to improve  operational efficiency. That’s the message from people drawn from each of these fields who will share their experiences and aspirations in a panel at GTC. They’re using a type of AI called intelligent video analytics (IVA), powered by edge computing. IVA Read article >

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Food for Thought: Startups Harness AI to Nurture the Future of Agriculture

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From counting cows to detecting weeds to pollinating tomatoes, startups around the world are deploying AI technology to solve problems that farmers have struggled with since the dawn of time. Tomorrow’s World Food Day comes as startups are mobilized to change how our food is grown — with potentially wide implications for the economy, public Read article >

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Duos Technologies Uses AI-Powered Inspection to Help Railway Operators Stay on Track

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In March, a 28-car freight train derailment in Gibbons, Neb., forced Union Pacific to shut down three rail lines, delaying shipments nationwide for up to 48 hours and costing it millions as its rail network slowed down substantially. Fortunately, no one was injured. Duos Technologies, based in Jacksonville, Fla., says its NVIDIA GPU-accelerated AI railcar Read article >

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Unstung Heroes: Startup’s AI-Powered Tomato Pollinator Gives Bees a Break

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There are nearly a half million acres of greenhouse tomato crops in the world, an area about 35 times the size of Manhattan. In other words, lots of tomatoes. Growing them requires more than soil, water and sunlight. The plants are self-pollinating, but they need a little help getting the pollen to drop onto the Read article >

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Cattle-ist for the Future: Plainsight Revolutionizes Livestock Management with AI

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Computer vision and edge AI are looking beyond the pasture. Plainsight, a San Francisco-based startup and NVIDIA Metropolis partner, is helping the meat processing industry improve its operations — from farms to forks. By pairing Plainsight’s vision AI platform and NVIDIA GPUs to develop video analytics applications, the company’s system performs precision livestock counting and Read article >

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Startup’s AI Intersects With U.S. Traffic Lights for Better Flow, Safety

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Thousands of U.S. traffic lights may soon be getting the green light on AI for safer streets. That’s because startup CVEDIA has designed better and faster vehicle and pedestrian detections to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety for Cubic Transportation Systems. These new AI capabilities will be integrated into Cubic’s GRIDSMART Solution, a single-camera intersection Read article >

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Startup Green Lights AI Analytics to Improve Traffic, Pedestrian Safety

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For all the attention devoted to self-driving cars, there’s another, often-overlooked, aspect to transportation efficiency and safety: smarter roads. Derq, a startup operating out of Detroit and Dubai, has developed an AI system that can be installed on intersections and highways. Its AI edge appliance uses NVIDIA GPUs to process video and other data from Read article >

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Why Retailers Are Investing in Edge Computing and AI

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AI is a retailer’s automated helper, acting as a smart assistant to suggest the perfect position for products in stores, accurately predict consumer demand, automate order fulfillment in warehouses, and much more. The technology can help retailers grow their top line, potentially improving net profit margins from 2 percent to 6 percent — and adding Read article >

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AI Goes Uptown: A Tour of Smart Cities Around the Globe 

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There are as many ways to define a smart city as there are cities on the road to being smart. From London and Singapore to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, they vary widely. Most share some common characteristics. Every city wants to be smart about being a great place to live. So, many embrace broad initiatives for Read article >

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Non-Stop Shopping: Startup’s AI Let’s Supermarkets Skip the Line

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Eli Gorovici loves to take friends sailing on the Mediterranean. As the new pilot of Trigo, a Tel Aviv-based startup, he’s inviting the whole retail industry on a cruise to a future with AI. “We aim to bring the e-commerce experience into the brick-and-mortar supermarket,” said Gorovici, who joined the company as its chief business Read article >

Heads Up, Down Under: Sydney Suburb Enhances Livability with Traffic Analytics

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With a new university campus nearby and an airport under construction, the city of Liverpool, Australia, 27 kilometers southwest of Sydney, is growing fast. More than 30,000 people are expected to make a daily commute to its central business district. Liverpool needed to know the possible impact to traffic flow and movement of pedestrians, cyclists Read article >

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Sand Safety: Startup’s Lifeguard AI Hits the Beach to Save Lives

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A team in Israel is making a splash with AI. It started as biz school buddies Netanel Eliav and Adam Bismut were looking to solve a problem to change the world. The problem found them: Bismut visited the Dead Sea after a drowning and noticed a lack of tech for lifeguards, who scanned the area Read article >

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