VBTI introduces robots fitted with smart camera tech to agriculture - Innovation Origins

The agricultural sector is struggling as fewer and fewer people want to work in this sector, which means that agriculture and horticulture have to consider automation. An increasing number of robots in the agricultural sector are equipped with VBTI's technology. With close to twenty years of experience under his belt, founder Albert van Breemen also helps companies in the manufacturing sector. Albert tells us more about it in this instalment of Start-up of the day. "I have been working on artificial intelligence (AI) since the early 1990s and control engineering. Once I started my studies, I soon came across what is now called Deep Learning. During my time as a business developer at ASML, there was all this hype surrounding artificial intelligence. I heard from a lot of people that we had missed the boat. Everything to do with AI was already being done in America and China. We were supposedly lagging behind with that technology. However, in my mind, we had not missed the boat at all; there's just another one on the way. At some point I received a question from a customer. That customer wanted to scale up their production, but every product had to be checked by hand. That takes an enormous amount of time, and even finding the right people to do this kind of inspection work was almost impossible. That's where Deep Learning enters the picture, for instance, with the help of smart camera systems. And that's how I came up with the idea of turning it into a business. Eventually, in 2018, I decided to start my own company in the field of Deep Learning – which is used within the High Tech Industry."