Seeing Machines has launched a “Physical AI” platform that applies the technology behind its driver-monitoring systems to robotics, as the company pushes deeper into the fast-growing market for humanoid and industrial robots.
In the days since the UK Investor Magazine said Seeing Machines is ‘certainly a company to keep a close eye on’ after result were released, the computer vision company has delivered with a move into robotics and today’s launch of a Physical AI platform.
Seeing Machines said on Monday the new platform extends its “human-centred AI” approach, used in the driver and occupant monitoring systems fitted in more than eight million vehicles, to give robots a richer understanding of the people and environments around them.
It works by building a dynamic three-dimensional map of people, objects and surroundings, allowing a robot to interpret human behaviour, anticipate risk and make decisions in real time, rather than simply recognising individual objects.
Chief executive Paul McGlone said the launch was a natural evolution of the company’s long-standing work in human-machine interaction, and that understanding people and their environment would become as important as the task a robot is performing as robots move out of research labs and into factories, hospitals, homes and public spaces.
The company said it sees multiple potential applications across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, aged care, warehousing, mining and industrial automation, where robots are increasingly expected to work alongside people.