Nviso delivers human behaviour AI for Panasonic’s companion robots

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22.04.2022
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The Panasonic Companion Robot NICOBO will contain the Human Behavioural Analytics AI software solution developed by Swiss startup nViso. The two companies have signed a multi-year license agreement to deploy the technology.

Panasonic Corporation, a global leader in developing innovative technologies and solutions for wide-ranging applications boasting over 100 years of existence, 522 subsidiaries and 69 associated companies worldwide with consolidated net sales of 6,698.8 billion yen for the year ended March 31, 2021, is capitalising on nViso’s AI solutions. After two years of working together, the tech giant has entered a multi-year license agreement with nViso to deploy NVISO’s Human Behaviour AI Apps for the Panasonic NICOBO companion robot.

Companion robots are designed to interact naturally with humans, with the ability to perceive and respond to a user’s mental state, behaviours and commands. With these capabilities, they can assist in combating loneliness and detecting depression along with helping in keeping people healthy at home through the remote monitoring of vital signs. This is achieved through visual comprehension, and NVISO’s human behavioural analytics AI systems have the capabilities to deliver this.

"Over the last two years we have worked with Panasonic’s development team to fulfil a vision to help people live at home healthier and happier through empathic intelligent devices. Our engineering team has delivered an excellent AI solution to meet the demanding power, cost and performance needs of high-volume edge-based consumer processing platforms required by manufacturers such as Panasonic”, said Tim Llewellynn, CEO of NVISO.

Headquartered at the Innovation Park of the EPFL, NVISO provides software solutions that can sense, comprehend, and act upon human behaviour in real-world environments. It achieves this through real-time perception and observation of people and objects in contextual situations combined with the reasoning and semantics of human behaviour based on trusted scientific research. Using its range of AI Apps, the technology allows for analysing core signals of human behaviour such as facial expressions, emotions, identity, head pose, gaze, gestures, activities, and the identification of objects with which users interact. The resulting reactions help identify issues, make decisions, and support autonomous “human-like” interactions.

Moreover, the AI apps can be optimised for typically resource-constrained low power and low-cost processing platforms demanded by battery-operated consumer products. The apps can be easily configured to suit any camera system for optimal distance and camera angle performance. The apps are robust to real-world imaging conditions thanks to NVISO’s large-scale proprietary human behaviour databases, and the solutions do not require information to be sent off-device for processing elsewhere, thus protecting user privacy and safety.

(Press release/RAN)

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