Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws
Manufacturing

Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws

Computer vision has been learning how to spot manufacturing flaws. The pandemic is accelerating that education. Companies like Instrumental and Elementary are making AI-powered cameras that automate the spotting of damaged or badly assembled products on factory assembly lines.

July 15, 20201 min read
Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws
Manufacturing

Assembly Line AI: How companies are using AI to spot manufacturing flaws

Computer vision has been learning how to spot manufacturing flaws. The pandemic is accelerating that education. Companies like Instrumental and Elementary are making AI-powered cameras that automate the spotting of damaged or badly assembled products on factory assembly lines.

July 15, 20201 min read
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Manufacturing

Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.

Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.

April 22, 20201 min read
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Manufacturing

Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.

Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.

April 22, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Manufacturing

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Manufacturing

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.
Manufacturing

Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.

AI may not steal your job, but it can tell the boss when you’re slacking. Drishti, a startup based in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, tracks the productivity of industrial workers by recognizing their actions on the assembly line.

March 4, 20201 min read
Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.
Manufacturing

Eyes on the Assembly Line: Computer vision tracks worker efficiency in warehouses.

AI may not steal your job, but it can tell the boss when you’re slacking. Drishti, a startup based in Palo Alto and Bengaluru, tracks the productivity of industrial workers by recognizing their actions on the assembly line.

March 4, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Manufacturing

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Manufacturing

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Manufacturing

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Manufacturing

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Machines Take Everyone’s Job
Manufacturing

Machines Take Everyone’s Job

From blue collar laborers to lab coated professionals, is any job safe from AI? AI will exceed human performance at a wide range of activities. Huge populations will become jobless.

October 30, 20192 min read
Machines Take Everyone’s Job
Manufacturing

Machines Take Everyone’s Job

From blue collar laborers to lab coated professionals, is any job safe from AI? AI will exceed human performance at a wide range of activities. Huge populations will become jobless.

October 30, 20192 min read
AI Startups in Demand
Manufacturing

AI Startups in Demand

AI startups are being scooped up at an accelerating pace, many by companies outside the tech sphere. A report by CB Insights shows that, as of August, 2019 was on track to surpass last year’s record number of AI startup acquisitions.

October 9, 20191 min read

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