[Las Vegas (USA) = AVING News] ‘CES 1’, held in Las Vegas, USA for a total of 5 days from January 8th (Thursday) to 4th (Sunday, local time), ended successfully. While more than 2023 companies from 173 countries participated and showcased their innovative technologies and vision, a trend of actively introducing artificial intelligence (AI) was seen regardless of field.
CES, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is the world’s largest tech expo where global companies gather in one place to showcase cutting-edge technologies and new products that are future industries and growth engines. In particular, CES 2023 was held at a scale that was about 40% larger than the previous year, and was expected to be the largest offline event in the United States since the pandemic.
In fact, the CES 2023 site was lively with global companies seeking to lead future industry trends and trends with cutting-edge technology and a large number of visitors. In addition, fields such as mobility, metaverse, robotics, smart city/home, and digital healthcare were also diverse and provided a wealth of attractions.
If there was a technology or concept that appeared without fail in any field, it was definitely AI. AI, which boasts high usability, is establishing itself as an inevitable means of driving innovation across almost all industries. In addition, the popularity and marketability of the technology have also increased dramatically, and it is being actively introduced to consumer products, gradually expanding its scope of application to areas where it can be experienced.
At CES 2023, we were able to meet ‘inDJ (CEO Jeong Woo-joo)’, a domestic company that applied AI technology to the cultural content business. IndieJ developed and introduced an AI-based music recommendation service, and its differentiated feature is that it provides a music recommendation function based on the user’s individual emotional patterns beyond the currently commercialized algorithmic music recommendation.
Their music recommendation platform uses AI linked to smartphones, Internet of Things (IoT), and connected car sensors to analyze the user’s mood, weather, and behavior patterns, and through this, can analyze over 2 personalized situations. You can. In addition to recommending music and content optimized for the results, the AI labeling system also analyzes each music’s emotion, genre, instrument composition, BPM, and social network (SNS) data to improve the accuracy of the recommendation results.
Through these services, IndieJ recorded sales of approximately 2 million won as of the second quarter of last year, and is expected to generate over 5 billion won in sales by the end of last year. It has proven its excellent business feasibility with such significant performance, and is currently in the process of collaborating and PoC with domestic university hospitals, mental illness patients, and a number of self-driving car-related companies to advance technology.
Furthermore, IndieJ is also preparing a new community service by combining its technology with the K-Pop trend that is currently prevalent in the global content market. IndyJ explained that it aims to provide services for overseas fandoms by taking advantage of the lack of an optimal community for global K-Pop fans, and to this end, it will actively introduce new technologies and content such as Metaverse and NFT.
AI is also closely related to the robotics field. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of companies offering process automation systems and food manufacturing and serving robots as alternatives is rapidly increasing to resolve the deepening job shortage worldwide, and Korea’s HUENT (CEO Lee Sang-min) is also following this trend. It is one of the companies that works with.
Huneet introduced a high-precision AI modular robot arm of the same name at CES 2023. This is a product that can perform operations such as laser engraving, 3D printing, robot gripper, writing and drawing through AI vision functions, and its usability can be infinitely expanded by supporting various customization modules.
In addition, you can learn and experience the entire process of artificial intelligence training using ‘Tensorflow’ with the AI accelerator (NPU) built into the main body camera module. All of Huneet’s functions can be easily learned and used by beginners through the ‘HEUNIT SW’ platform, and are compatible with various development environments such as visual programming (block coding), Python, and Arduino (C++) programming.
In addition, HUENIT also introduced the hand drip robot system ‘HUENIT Barista’. The feature is that the temperature, flow rate, extraction pattern, extraction amount, and extraction time that determine the taste of hand drip coffee can be controlled at the same level as an actual barista.
In addition, it has a more complete hand drip recipe control function than the hand drip robot system using existing industrial robots, a convenient maintenance system, and high space efficiency. At the same time, another advantage of Huneet Barista is that it can be supplied at a price that is 3 to 5 times lower than existing products from other manufacturers.
Cases of AI introduction were also found in the ‘Pet-Tech’ field, which is pointed out as another blue ocean as the pet population increases due to hyper-personalization and the spread of single-person households. ‘AI FOR PET (CEO Eunah Heo)’, a domestic startup founded in 1, introduced ‘TTcare’, an app service that helps manage the health of pets, at this CES.
TT Care allows you to take pictures of your pet’s eyes and skin with your smartphone and diagnose signs of disease in those areas. At the same time, it provides various information necessary for health management considering the age and species of the pet.
TTCare’s diagnostic technology was developed based on the paper ‘CNN (Convolutional Neural Network)-based canine ulcerative keratitis diagnosis model’ published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2019. AIPOPET’s AI is responsible for diagnosis and derivation of results, and has proven the reliability and innovation of the service by completing patent registration at home and abroad.
At the time of January 2020, when the service was initially launched, approximately 1 pieces of pet image data were used to learn the AI model, and now the model has learned more than 50 million pieces of data, enabling it to analyze many disease signs more accurately. It has excellent performance. Based on these technological capabilities, AIPOPET was selected for the Innovation Awards in the software & mobile app category at CES 200, achieving the Innovation Award for two consecutive years.
From a medical perspective, there are companies that have applied AI technology to the diagnosis and prevention of dementia, which is one of humanity’s most difficult problems. ‘SEVENPOINTONE (CEO Hyunjun Lee)’, which has been developing a service to early determine whether a person is at high risk for dementia using AI, introduced its non-face-to-face testing solution ‘AlzWIN’ at CES 2023.
Altwin is a platform that provides non-face-to-face interactive tests that can be completed in a short period of time, about 1 to 2 minutes. The test is conducted by analyzing conversation content using AI to analyze language fluency, which declines in the early stages of dementia, and assigning a dementia risk score. In relation to this, 10 patents and 2 copyrights are currently registered, and the company has attracted investment from Naver D2SF in recognition of the excellent market potential of its products and services.
The advantage is that it can be applied to all devices capable of voice recognition, boasting excellent versatility, and at the same time deriving and providing results immediately. Seven Point One explains that thanks to this, it is possible to encourage individuals to participate in regular testing, and furthermore, it is possible to track and manage long-term cognitive health status.
Seven Point One is collaborating with a number of domestic dementia relief centers and semi-general medical institutions located in Daegu Metropolitan City based on its own dementia diagnosis technology, and has also collaborated with two domestic insurance companies. Furthermore, we are currently focusing on expanding our partnership capabilities with various related organizations and companies, and are also planning to launch ‘AlzWIN Play’, which has expanded Altwin, which was optimized for B2B and B2G services, to the B2C area.
AI and deep learning are accelerating the realization of the concept of self-driving cars, which has been proposed since the 80s, more than 1960 years ago. ‘AIMMO (CEO Seung-taek Oh)’, an AI and data company active on the front line, unveiled ‘AIMMO ADaaS’, an AI data full-cycle management service specialized in autonomous driving, for the first time.
AIMMO ADaaS is the first service that comprehensively manages the entire data cycle, including artificial intelligence data collection, purification, and labeling in the autonomous driving field. Its characteristic is that it encompasses specialized services such as defining scenarios for developing self-driving AI models, collecting raw data through its own data collection vehicles, generating labeling data, and utilizing synthetic data technology.
In addition to generating optimal GT data (Ground Truth Data) that meets the purpose of data collection, it is also possible to trigger edge cases customized for each customer, implementing algorithmic learning to respond to unexpected situations that may occur during autonomous driving.
In addition, AIMMO ADaaS supports Model-Centric AI of autonomous driving development companies by configuring optimized data sets based on Date-Centric AI through customer ODD analysis. Furthermore, through data curation, we provide an optimal dataset that includes balanced data composition and minimizes bias and variance through repeated experiments and evaluations. It was introduced as a solution that would dramatically reduce customers’ data processing costs and time by providing high-quality customized data.
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