Opteran moves beyond today’s deep learning AI to re-engineer 600 million years of evolution in insect brains onto a silicon chip. This breakthrough enables machines to see, sense, navigate and make autonomous decisions with a smaller, lighter and more efficient solution that operates off-network without training. This is a different approach to autonomy, which doesn’t succumb to the problems of machine learning. We reverse engineer real brains to produce autonomous systems that are robust and hyper-efficient; we call this approach ‘natural intelligence’.
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Reflections from RSS: Three Reasons DL Fails at Autonomy
July 21, 2023
This blog post was originally published by Opteran Technologies. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. Last week I had the pleasure of attending, and presenting at, the annual Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in Daegu, South Korea. RSS ranks amongst the most prestigious of the international robotics conferences, and brings together …
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Bee Decisions Inform a New Approach to Developing Machine Autonomy
June 29, 2023
This blog post was originally published by Opteran Technologies. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. We have just published more of the fundamental research into honeybee brains that led to the formation of Opteran, the Natural Intelligence company that reverse-engineers algorithms for autonomy from the brains of insects. In this work …
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“Are Neuromorphic Vision Technologies Ready for Commercial Use?,” An Embedded Vision Summit Expert Panel Discussion
August 10, 2022
Sally Ward-Foxton, European Correspondent for EE Times, moderates the “Are Neuromorphic Vision Technologies Ready for Commercial Use?” Expert Panel at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Other panelists include Garrick Orchard, Research Scientist at Intel Labs, James Marshall, Chief Scientific Officer at Opteran, Ryad Benosman, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor at …
“Natural Intelligence Outperforms Artificial Intelligence for Autonomy and Vision,” a Presentation from Opteran Technologies
July 21, 2022
James Marshall, Chief Scientific Officer at Opteran Technologies, presents the “Natural Intelligence Outperforms Artificial Intelligence for Autonomy and Vision” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Mainstream approaches to AI for autonomy and computer vision make use of data-, energy- and compute-intensive techniques such as deep learning, which struggle to generalize and are fragile …
Opteran Secures $12 Million to Create a New Standard for Autonomous Machines
June 23, 2022
Join Capital leads Seed+ as Opteran delivers genuine brain biomimicry inspired by insects London, June 23 2022 – Opteran, the Natural Intelligence company, has secured $12 million in funding led by Join Capital, with additional funding from IQ Capital, Northern Gritstone, Seraphim, Episode 1 and Schauenburg Ventures. In the next two years, Opteran will expand …
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Wired Magazine: Opteran Features in Six Trends Shaping the Future
May 2, 2022
This blog post was originally published at Opteran Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. Report for Qinetiq singles out Opteran Natural Intelligence as biomimicry identified as a major disruptor. In a report written by Wired Magazine and commissioned by Qinetiq, a global integrated defense and security company, Opteran has …
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What Do Headphones and Insect Brains Have in Common?
January 19, 2022
This blog post was originally published at Opteran Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. When I interviewed at Beats by Dr. Dre in 2012, I had a long conversation with Jimmy Iovine about how he and Dr. Dre founded Beats. He started by teaching me that a music producer’s …
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Ready for Air: Welcome to a New Dawn for Aerial Autonomy
December 13, 2021
This blog post was originally published at Opteran Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. Opteran enables robust, fast, GPS free, verifiable autonomy for aerial systems, at previously unimaginable size, weight (~30g), power (~3W) and hardware costs using consumer 2D cameras Today we’re happy to share a first glance at our …
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Opteran’s Journey to Complete Natural Intelligence for Machines
October 11, 2021
This blog post was originally published by Opteran Technologies. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. The start-up years – how Opteran is laying the right technology foundations for success It’s been several months now since I’ve joined Opteran as Chairman and it has been exciting to get to grips with the …
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Reflections on 2021 Embedded Vision Summit
June 8, 2021
This blog post was originally published by Opteran Technologies. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. It’s been another tough year for anyone organising virtual high-tech conferences. Rarely do these events capture the atmosphere and buzz of a real-world face-to-face gathering. So for all of us involved in the computer vision industry …
Robots with Insect Brains: The Payoff for Robotics and AI
April 16, 2021
This blog post was originally published at Opteran Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. Engineering and nature have often had a very close relationship, but as we look to solve some of the most fundamental challenges with robotics and artificial intelligence nature has an even more important role to …
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Fewer Than 10,000 Pixels is Enough for Autonomy
March 11, 2021
This blog post was originally published at Opteran Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Opteran Technologies. We’ve read with interest the posts Geoffrey Barrows at Centeye has been publishing on some of the challenges of developing autonomous drones. This more recent one underlines how many factors influence a drone’s ability to successfully …
Launch of Opteran Development Kit – Bringing Natural Intelligence to AI
January 27, 2021
Today is an important step for Opteran Technologies as we announce the Opteran Development Kit version 2 (ODK-2) and begin on the road to commercialising what we believe will be a radically different approach to artificial intelligence. As you may have seen from a previous post by our Chief Scientific Officer, James Marshall, we are …
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