Digitalization has taken over every walk of life, be it something as simple as buying a flight ticket, booking a movie, or ordering food. We are surrounded by innovations in technology like Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, and more. Today artificial intelligence has worked wonders in arenas of problem-solving, learning, object detection, and others for household, industrial and commercial applications. One of the prime areas where AI is proving its potential for innovations and breakthroughs is electrical safety. AI can help to reduce human intervention and drastically reduce the factor of human error.

When it comes to keeping your workforce safe, providing proper personal protective equipment is just the start. Workplace safety programs of the future, however, will bring risk mitigation and incident prevention to the next level – including the ability to stop hazardous events from happening in the first place. With the help of artificial intelligence and workflow-integrated computer vision technology such as Benchmark Digital's new Benchmark ESG SuperVisionAI, the future is now. We've collaborated with world-class computer vision technology companies such as SparkCognition, Intenseye and 3MotionAI to harness the power of AI-analyzed live video streaming and photos to integrate the data they capture with the Benchmark solution platform to generate reports and alerts in real time for the ultimate safe work environment. The AI monitors and recognizes hazards as work happens, giving site leaders full visibility over key details such as PPE usage, potential hazards and day-to-day habits through a simple camera lens.

Robots have come a long way from their origination to today where they are capable of doing almost any task. Robotics technology has changed the picture of the current world. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way, and now robots are more evolved than ever. AI-powered robots are based on the principles of human intelligence are defined as the way in which machines imitate human intelligence to perform simple and complex tasks. Like in any other industry, AI-powered robots have become an essential part of the warehousing industry as well.

AI solutions have already been implemented across industries, helping to increase efficiency, reduce costs, improve safety, and more. New advancements in edge AI processing are now enabling companies to take AI applications to the next level with multiple large, complex deep neural networks (DNNs). Analog compute-in-memory is a revolutionary new approach that is bringing incredible performance, power, and cost advantages to the edge AI industry. Here are predictions for three key markets that will be reshaped by this new approach to edge AI processing. AI is starting to completely transform the market for video security, which includes measures to deny unauthorized access and protect personnel/property.

Tina D'Agostin is CEO of Alcatraz AI, a leader in physical security technologies using facial authentication for autonomous access control. After a pandemic year, workplace safety is top of mind for many businesses. According to one survey, employee safety and well-being replaced pre-existing priorities, like attracting top talent, as the dominant concerns for business leaders. Meanwhile, many employees are dissatisfied with existing safety measures. A Gallup Poll found that just 65% of workers are "completely satisfied with their physical safety at work," the lowest point since 2001.

Tina D'Agostin is CEO of Alcatraz AI, a leader in physical security technologies using facial authentication for autonomous access control. After a pandemic year, workplace safety is top of mind for many businesses. According to one survey, employee safety and well-being replaced pre-existing priorities, like attracting top talent, as the dominant concerns for business leaders. Meanwhile, many employees are dissatisfied with existing safety measures. A Gallup Poll found that just 65% of workers are "completely satisfied with their physical safety at work," the lowest point since 2001.

Toshiba Corporation has developed the world's most accurate highly versatile Visual Question Answering (VQA) AI, able to recognize not only people and objects, but also colors, shapes, appearances and background details in images. The AI overcomes the long-standing difficulty of answering questions on the positioning and appearance of people and objects, and has the ability to learn information required to handle a wide range of questions and answers. It can be applied to a wide range of purposes without any need for customization. In experiments using a public dataset comprising a large volume of images and data text, the VQA AI correctly answered 66.25% of questions without any pre-learning and 74.57% with pre-learning. For example, the AI can find a worker standing in a designated place by asking questions like, "is the person on a black mat?" which requires recognition of the individual, position, shape and color.

Qare Inc., today announced the launch of ASGARD, the first, comprehensive, cloud-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution that removes all barriers to safely return to work post-Covid-19. Using the AI software, all organizations, from large enterprises to small businesses and schools to health care providers, can fully verify, track and manage vaccinations to prevent, control and mitigate Covid-19 in the workplace. Employees of these institutions no longer need to fear Covid-19 and can now safely return to work and live life as it was meant to be. Even with tremendous progress in vaccinations, an unbiased examination of the data will reveal that there is still much reason to fear in the here and now. There are more weekly infections now than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, excepting the peak period of Dec and Jan.

Among the 100 updates announced at Microsoft's developer event Build this week, an area that stood out above the noise was artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Microsoft's growing push into higher-level services for applied AI and business scenarios. Microsoft has been gradually embedding business logic into more of its AI in an attempt to help enterprises get out of the "pilot purgatory" that has so often characterized AI projects over the past few years. But at Build this year, it took a big leap forward. Let's take a closer look at the major moves that came out of Build and what they mean for the market. According to a survey my team conducted, more than 80% of companies are now trialling or putting AI into production in their organizations, up from 55% in 2019, and we've seen adoption accelerate dramatically in several narrow areas such as contact centres, chat bots, and fraud detection.

Washington – People returning to the office following the pandemic will find an array of tech-infused gadgetry to improve workplace safety but which could pose risks for long-term personal and medical privacy. Temperature checks, distance monitors, digital "passports," wellness surveys and robotic cleaning and disinfection systems are being deployed in many workplaces seeking to reopen. Tech giants and startups are offering solutions that include computer vision detection of vital signs to wearables that can offer early indications of the onset of COVID-19 and apps that keep track of health metrics. Salesforce and IBM have partnered on a "digital health pass" to let people share their vaccination and health status on their smartphone. Clear, a tech startup known for airport screening, has created its own health pass which is being used by organizations such as the National Hockey League and MGM Resorts.