Artificial Intelligence

Leveraging years of building health and fitness applications, including a popular back pain app, digital therapeutics pioneer Kaia Health has launched Kaia Personal Trainer. According to the company, it is the world’s first full-body virtual personal trainer which tracks exercises, creates personalised fitness plans, counts reps and provides real time audio feedback.

Hampleton Partners, the international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised 2getthere Holding, a manufacturer of driverless electric shuttles for future urban mobility, on its majority acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen, the global automotive supplier.

  Artificial intelligence is changing the world as we know it. Part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, together with nanotechnology, robotics, the IoT, and many other tech trends, AI is the buzzword of the 2010s. 

TomTom (TOM2) and Elektrobit (EB), an award-winning global supplier of embedded and connected software products for the automotive industry, has announced the release of an industry-first High Definition (HD) map horizon for automated driving. An HD map horizon helps vehicles to build a highly accurate virtual picture of the road ahead, enhancing driver safety and comfort. 

  Excelfore has announced that its eSync platform has been selected to provide Over-The-Air (OTA) updates and data gathering for Baidu’s Apollo Project. The Apollo Project provides an open, reliable and secure software platform for its partners to create autonomous driving systems.

Provider of intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, Advantech, has revealed the hardware and software integrated edge AI solutions powered by Intel Vision Accelerator Design with Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU and Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit. According to ABI Research, shipments of devices with edge AI capabilities will grow to 1.2 billion units by 2023. 

Providing tools to evaluate pilots’ fatigue state: this is the aim of the Clean Sky project HIPNOSIS. Coordinated by CSEM and under the guidance of Honeywell, the project will combine artificial intelligence (AI) with aeronautics expertise, contributing to the advent of next-generation cockpits.

In 2018, only robotic vehicles could claim to possess in-car AI. The associated computing market, driven by computers equivalent to what is found in datacenters and associated with rather low volumes, brought the computing market to $156m in 2018. Over the next ten years, with the development of robo-taxis and shuttles, this market will remain the main revenue generator for AI in automotive.

A dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) online resource has been introduced on the Farnell website. The new pages cover a variety of topics ranging from basic explanations of AI, and different types of AI applications, to descriptions of specific AI products including several ranges that are exclusive to Farnell.

Semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest will demonstrate and present a technical paper on its V93000 artificial intelligence (AI) test solution for the diverse and fast-growing AI and high-performance computing markets during SEMICON China in Shanghai (March 20-22) The V93000 Single Scalable Platform is already in widespread use at major AI chip designers around the world including China’s leading AI fabless companies.