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Turning every AI Insight into better AI

March 14, 2019March 12, 2019 maxversace AI, drones, insights, inspections, robotics

Use each and every insight your AI performs to improve … every insight! We imagine AI as this ever-present, omniscient

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Neurala & NASA: How AI that was designed for Mars impacts our life on Earth

October 29, 2018 maxversace cars, collision avoidance, compute edge, drones, learning, NASA, spinoff

A feature article from NASA on Neurala’s work developing AI algorithms that live at the Edge. From Mars Rover constraints

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Patent awarded to Neurala: GPU Brains for mobile devices, drones, cars enable Edge computing and learning

April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 maxversace AI, devices, drones, gpu, iot, patent, smart phones

The U.S. Patent Office issued to Neurala, Inc. a new patent (US 9,189,828) that extends the US patent 8,648,867 (Graphic

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Neurala and UAV & Drone Solutions win Edison Award for anti-poaching project

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 maxversace 0 Comments AI, anti poaching elephants, drones

UAV & Drone Solutions’ (UDS) Air Shepherd programme, founded by the Lindbergh Foundation and developed to protect elephants and rhinos

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The anti-Terminator? How to use AI to combat evil humans

January 18, 2018April 18, 2018 maxversace 0 Comments AI, air shepherd, drones, poaching, terminator

In the movie The Terminator, machines take over the world and send a cyborg assassin back in time from 2029 to

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Max Versace Gives Mobile World Congress Keynote

November 18, 2017April 18, 2018 maxversace 0 Comments AI, deep learning, drones, inspections, neurala

Inspections by drone have obvious financial, speed and safety benefits, especially for cell towers, roofs and infrastructure to ensure the

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NEW NEURALA BRAINS FOR BOTS™ DEEP LEARNING SOFTWARE EMPOWERS NEW DRONE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING SMART INSPECTIONS AND AUTONOMOUS FOLLOWING

September 7, 2016April 19, 2018 maxversace brains for bots, drones, neurala, sdk

New Neurala Brains for Bots SDK Provides Real-Time Learning, Object Recognition and Following Capabilities For Linux, Android and iOS Powered Drones LAS VEGAS,

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AI 2.0: brains for bots

November 18, 0201April 18, 2018 maxversace 0 Comments AI, brains for bots, deep learning, drones, neurala, robotics

This post is short: go check a video! I was recently invited to give a Keynote at the Rochester Institute

I am the co-founder and CEO of Neurala Inc., a Boston-based company building Artificial Intelligence emulating brain function in software. Neurala’s deep learning tech makes robots, drones, cars, consumer electronics, toys and smart devices more useful, engaging and autonomous. Neurala stems out of 10 years of research at Boston University Neuromorphics Lab, where as AI Professor I have pioneered the research and fielding of brain-inspired (also called Deep Learning, or Artificial Neural Networks) algorithms that allow robots and drones to perceive, navigate, interact and learn real-time in complex environments.

Over my academic and industrial career, I have lectured and spoken at dozens of events and venues, including TEDx, keynote at Mobile World Congress Drone Summit, NASA, the Pentagon, GTC, InterDrone, Los Alamo National Lab, GE, Air Force Research Labs, HP, iRobot, Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, Huawei, Ericsson, BAE Systems, AI World, Mitsubishi, ABB and Accenture, among many others.

My work has been featured in TIME, IEEE Spectrum, Fortune, CNBC, The Boston Globe, Xconomy, The Chicago Tribune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Nasdaq, Associated Press and many other media.

Career and company awards include: CB Insights 100 Most Promising AI Companies, Draper Venture Network Most Innovative Company, Disruptor Daily 100 Most Disruptive Companies, Edison Award Best New Product in Social Innovation.

I am a Fulbright scholar, hold several patents and two Ph.Ds: Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University; Experimental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy.