Artificial Intelligence

Seven Bank and NEC Corporation have announced the development of a next-generation ATM, which has a facial recognition engine with what claims to be world leading certification accuracy. The ATM is to be installed and to replace old machines from this September.

The newly-released BeagleBoneAI is in stock at Mouser Electronics. Created by the BeagleBoard.org Foundation, it is a powerful open hardware computer that makes it easy to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in a variety of applications, such as automation in industrial, commercial, and home designs.

The Qt Company has announced that high performance hypercar manufacturer, Koenigsegg Automotive AB has selected Qt’s cross-platform framework for the development of its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems and instrument clusters. Qt supports software development of Koenigsegg’s SmartCenter, SmartWheel and SmartCluster products. SmartCenter and SmartWheel are used in the Jesko hypercar, whereas SmartCenter and SmartClu...

TomTom has revealed that its navigation has been integrated with the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform. Navigation usage and diagnostics data can be sent from vehicles to Microsoft Azure where the data can be used by automakers to generate data-driven insights to deliver tailored services and to make better informed design and engineering decisions.

Yohann Tschudi, PhD. Technology & Market Analyst at Yole Développement (Yole), said “AI has completely disrupted hardware in vision systems, and has had an impact on entire segments.” A good example, is the penetration of Mobileye within the automotive market segment. 

Siemens has extended its Industrial Edge offerings for the machine-oriented Sinumerik Edge to include more new applications. With the new software, the company is helping machine tool users to improve workpiece and process quality, increase machine availability, and further optimise machine processes. With Edge Computing, large volumes of data can be processed locally on the machine tool. 

  A future of self-driving vehicles enabled by the latest high speed 5G mobile technology is to be investigated by the University of Warwick thanks to the installation of state of the art test equipment. The first over-the-air 5G New Radio standard-compliant test user equipment in Europe has been homed at WMG, University of Warwick. 

A new survey of 2,000 UK adults, commissioned by Studio Graphene, has uncovered the public’s perception towards different modern technologies. Biometrics, 5G and wearable tech came out as top of the list of modern technologies the UK consumers are most excited about, in the survey which was asked to 2,000 UK adults. Conversely, 43% of UK adults are worried about the problems that may arise from driverless cars, which is significan...

ACEINNA has announced the new ACEINNA OpenIMU330B, a MEMS based, small form factor high-performance 6-DOF inertial measurement unit that enables autonomous vehicles to accurately stay on track during turns and complicated manoeuvres. Measuring only 11x15x3mm, it is designed for use in automotive ADAS and autonomous systems as well as for electronic stability control and Lane Keep Assist functions.

  TomTom has announced that the number of Level 1 and Level 2-enabled vehicles powered by TomTom’s maps for automated driving has doubled. Over 1m vehicles - both private and commercial - and from multiple vehicle manufacturers, are now on the roads.