Tech News #20

Nvidia and Construction Giant Komatsu Now Use AI to Make Construction Sites Accident Free

          Accidents at constructions sites cause thousands of mortalities worldwide every year and to reduce such incident, Nvidia is teaming up with Komatsu, one of the largest manufacturers of heavy equipment for construction and mining in the world. By deploying AI at worksites across these industries in order to increase safety and efficiency. 

          Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO announced the partnership, which is currently limited to Japan, and explained how it’ll make use of Nvidia GPU hardware to provide virtual ‘brains’ to heavy machinery at work sites, with AI powered by Nvidia’s Jetson platform.

          This team-up builds on work done by Komatsu previously, as it originally rolled out its SMARTCONSTRUCTION program to build connected, smart worksites starting in 2015. Now, Nvidia’s tech will help Komatsu build 3D visualizations of entire construction sites, with a real-time representation of people and machinery working on the ground.

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