How AI Revolutionizes Robotics and Automotive Industries
Shohei Hido Chief Research Officer
Preferred Networks, Inc.
l Founded: March 2014
l Headquarter: Tokyo, Japan
l Subsidiary: San Mateo, California
l Company size: 30 engineers & researchers
l Investors: NTT (Oct. 2014), FANUC (Sep. 2015), Toyota (Dec. 2015)
Company profile: Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN)
Deep Learning (AI technologies)
Industrial IoT
AutomotiveHumanoid Robot
Preferred Networks’ positioning in AI: Industrial IoT
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Consumer Industrial
Cloud
Device
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Speech
Infrastructure
Factory Robot
Automotive
Healthcare
Smart City
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Industrial IoT �
DeepMindFacebook
Microsoft
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How AI revolutionizes Industrial IoT: Manufacturing and AI companies joining forces l AI-based intelligence is the key success factor in many industries l Manufacturers reach to AI technologies for help l PFN is partnering with the world-leading companies in each industry
– Toyota
– FANUC
– NTT
– Panasonic
– NVIDIA
– Cisco
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Cloud
Local network
Unsupported vehicle
detection
Optical NW
detection
Mobile NW
Traffic infrastructure
Automotive: Intelligent Connected-car Platform
l Providing different intelligence applications on cars and across infrastructure l Architecture using road infrastructure and network devices as a Fog layer
5 Intelligent vehicle Intelligent vehicle
Intelligent vehicle
Edge
Fog
Cloud
Automotive Demo: Toyota Self-learning Cars @ CES’16
6 Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A9UwxvgcV0
Silver cars autonomously learned how to avoid obstacles and cars, including manually controlled red car.
Presented at the Toyota booth in the main venue of CES this year
Robotics: Optimized Factory Machines & Zero Downtime l Integrated intelligence platform from factory level to edge machines level l AI can help further improve the utility and efficiency of factories
Robotics demo: Intelligent bin-picking robots @ International Robot Exhibition ’15
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Predict success possibility for each candidate point with 3D sensors
8 hours training reaches 90% success rate, the same accuracy with human-guided case
Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydh_AdWZflA
l Robot tries to pick up cylinders as fast and as accurate as possible l Deep learning automatically learns which picking point is most likely to
succeed.
Deep IntelligenceTM in-Motion (DIMo): Horizontal AI platform across industries
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Automotive
Fog devices Cloud Edge devices
SensorBee™: Intelligent Streaming ETL for IoT
Manufacturing Medical/healthcare
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Self-driving
ADAS/Map
Connected car
Robot behavior optimization
Factory automation
Predictive maintenance
Diagnosis
Drug discovery
Personalized medicine
Machine learning Deep Learning Statistics
Computer vision
Detect/Track/Recognize
Reinforcement learning
Distributed/Curriculum
Time-series RNN /
Representation
Sensor fusion
Multi-modal
Feedback/Action …
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Summary l Artificial Intelligence increasingly creating tremendous opportunities
not only for consumer products/services but also in industrial applications
l PFN is collaborating with Toyota, FANUC, and others to integrate
deep learning capabilities into automotive and robotics systems
l PFN is looking for partnership in Europe – Joint R&D or OEM collaborations w/ solid business plan
l PFN is looking for top talent (https://www.preferred-networks.jp/job) – Researchers: Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, Bio-healthcare
– Engineers: Distributed Systems, Embedded Device, Data Analytics
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