Next Automated Robot (NAR): Artificial Intelligence goes flying - Tala Ramadan

BEIRUT: The rise of Artificial Intelligence has grown and developed globally, owing to various advances in many fields. Although many people are still finding it hard to understand the virtual intelligence, others are taking in the challenge and bringing together ways to connect computers and humans, producing new AI material that somehow benefits many. With the inspiration of corralling several key ideas, Nicolas Zaatar and Charlie El Khoury have developed their own startup NAR – Next Automated Robot – whose mission was to transform drones from flying cameras to flying computers. "We thought, what if we use the drone as an inspector gadget?" The ideas they have combined are information, data, algorithm, uncertainty, computing, and finally, optimizing.