11.16.2008 G. Paillet Speaks at RoboDevelopment Guy Paillet of General Vision is a key note speaker at the 2008 RoboDevelopment Conference in Santa Clara on November 18th. He is highlighting RoboSight by RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems as a robotic smart camera for education and research applications.
Guy Paillet has been researching and developing artificial vision systems for the past 30 years. In 1982 his French company Data Sud Systems commercialized a unique vision system on a VME Bus. This lead him to the research of artificial neural networks. In 1993, Guy brought the concept of a fully hardwired neural network to IBM France as an independent inventor. He co-developed ZISC36 (Zero Instruction Set Computer with 36 neurons) for which five core patents were granted and co-owned by IBM Corp. Guy subsequently joined General Vision and began work on non-software solutions for emulating biological vision. In January 2008, with the help of their financial partner Cognimem Ltd, General Vision and Recognetics of China commercially released CM1K, the Cognimem chip with 1024 neurons that can be trained for pattern recognition.
11.10.2008 RoboSight Goes Into Production RoadNarrows Intelligent Systems (RNIS) has released their first product, RoboSight. It is available for purchase from Pitotech, Taiwan, and RoadNarrows LLC, Colorado. It is currently available in two configurations: RoboSight Standard for educational and research robotics, and RoboSight Basic for prototyping and hobbyists.
RoboSight offers an affordable, but powerful
vision recognition system, ideal for robotic platforms and
small embedded applications. It is powered by the CogniMem
CM-1K neural network chip co-developed by Recognetics and General Vision. Complex
visual objects are readily detected and categorized from patterns previously trained by the user or the embedding
system. The recognized visual categories can then be fed
to the higher-level functions of the controlling system to guide goal decisions, object localization, platform
movement and navigation, and environment manipulation.