Hey all,

So I was kinda loathed to start "another new thread", but I felt this was reasonably significant and thought there could be a few opinions to follow.

Rob Telson liked an EDGE IMPULSE post of an article on LinkedIn recently about COVARIANT ROBOTICS. (For those that aren't aware EDGE IMPULSE was a guest on the BRN podcast this year)

Here is the article posted by Edge Impulse - https://www.verdict.co.uk/covariant-ceo-on-the-companys-unicorn-sauce-a-computer-vision-ai-brain-that-really-works/

AI AND AUTOMATION

Covariant CEO on the company’s unicorn sauce: A computer vision AI brain that really works

“Covariant’s AI-powered robotics solutions in particular are designed to see, learn, and interact with the world around them so they can handle complex and ever-changing operations in a warehouse setting,” Chen explains when asked about the AI brain powering Covariant’s robotic arms. “That means they can autonomously handle, whether it’s pick, pack or ship, millions of different types of items that can exist in a modern warehouse.”

A type of machine learning, deep RL sees neural networks learning from experience, or reinforcement learning, rather than as usual from historical data. Such networks are “deep” in that they have more layers of “neural” gates, making them more like the human brain than conventional computing architecture.

This proprietary vision system combines cameras and software to provide perception capabilities to robots. With AI at the core of the system, this allows the Covariant Brain to distinctly ‘see’ a wide variety of objects regardless of the packaging type: transparent, poly-wrapped, overlapping, deformed, partially obscured, reflective and more.

“And that’s one part of our secret sauce  – our system’s ability to see and immediately understand how to pick up these items accurately and quickly, even if it’s never seen that specific product before.”

(About the COVARIANT founders - The foursome met in 2016 while conducting AI research at UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and at OpenAI (Aphabet ), the non-profit whose founders include Tesla CEO Elon Musk().






I went digging around the website and came up with a few nuggets, interested to here some educated opinions..............

https://covariant.ai/