{"id":12376,"date":"2024-11-01T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/from-mars-rovers-to-factory-assembly-lines\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:06:39","slug":"from-mars-rovers-to-factory-assembly-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/from-mars-rovers-to-factory-assembly-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mars Rovers to Factory Assembly Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mars Rovers to Factory Assembly Lines<\/h2>\n

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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nEuropean company apetito uses Neurala\u2019s vision inspection software to ensure the quality of its prepared meals, such as green bean portions pictured here. The software evolved from code Neurala was developing more than a decade ago, with NASA funding, for a rover that could independently learn to traverse Martian terrain. <\/div>\n
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Artificial intelligence software initially designed to learn and analyze Martian terrain is now at the heart of a system to monitor assembly lines on Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The vision inspection software from Neurala Inc., an artificial intelligence company in Boston, Massachusetts, works with existing cameras, computers, and even cellphones to monitor the quality of products running along a conveyor belt, for instance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOur software can learn very quickly on a processor with a very small footprint, a skill we learned working with NASA,\u201d said Neurala cofounder and CEO Massimiliano Versace. \u201cBy doing so, we enable vision inspection with whatever components are already available, deploying in minutes. In our exploration of the market, we realized that the manufacturing space had a precise need for this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Versace and Neurala (Spinoff 2018<\/a>) began working with NASA more than a decade ago on a project funded through the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program.\u202fNASA was interested in \u201cadaptive bio-inspired navigation for planetary exploration,\u201d and Versace and his team had been working on neural network AI software modeled on the human brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Focusing on a rover concept that could independently learn to traverse Martian terrain, Neurala went on to win STTR Phase II funding for the project. Additional money from a NASA Center Innovation Fund enabled the Neurala team to adapt its technology to drone navigation and collision avoidance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In both the rover and the drone applications, the Neurala software could run on a small device on the vehicle itself, eliminating the delay of sending signals to a decision maker in another location.\u00a0Since then, the company developed the software to help monitor assembly lines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Onsite computing is an advantage in manufacturing, as well, where an assembly line may have a hundred items passing every minute, making visual inspections for quality control difficult.<\/p>\n

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