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Amazing drones for inaccessible places

Location:  Paudex, CH Launch date: 2014 Total funding received: $17M Specialties: Robotics, Drones, and Engineering Flyability is a Swiss company that builds safe drones for the inspection and the exploration of indoor, complex, inaccessible, and confined spaces. By allowing drones to be used safely inside buildings, and in contact with people it enables industrial companies and inspection professionals to reduce downtime, inspection costs, increase workers safety and prevent risks of larger catastrophes. With hundreds of customers in…
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Skydio – Impossible Video, Now Possible

Skydio is an autonomous drone technology company that designs and develops GPS enabled software to navigate drones. Location:Redwood City, California Launch date: 2014 Total funding received:  < $3.5M Specialties: Aviation & Aerospace What Skydio does? Since 2014, Skydio has established its company which specializes in artificial intelligence, robotics and computer vision. Not until 2018 they launched R1 which was considered as a breakthrough in autonomous drones for customers and as a platform for commercial development. Nowadays,…
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AI helps blind and low vision people

With use of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality, US company Aira makes lifes of blind people easier. Aira is a service that makes the world instantly more accessible for visually impaired people. They are passionate about transforming daily life of people who are blind or low vision so they can fully Engage, Explore and Experience their world. Through an app on your smartphone, or through an optional pair of Horizon Smart Glasses, Aira delivers instant…
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#007 Top 5 Benefits of Self-Driving Cars

Who can benefit from self-driving cars? In general, there is no doubt that everyone will benefit from self-driving cars. First, society, from a safety standpoint, benefits from eliminating most of 30.000 fatal accidents per year. The elderly and disabled can enhance independence. Also, commuters can benefit by turning their boring drive to work into a relaxing time. They could safely pursue more productive or entertaining activities, like responding to emails or watching a movie. Not…
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#006 The moral dilemma of self-driving cars

How should autonomous vehicles decide who to sacrifice? Almost 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year. One of the most compelling reasons in favor of the introduction of autonomous vehicles is to enhance driving safety and reduce road casualties. However, this prompts the question of whether these cars will be able to make decisions in a split second, and respond just as well as experienced human drivers. And most importantly, how an AI-powered…
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