Miguel Lopez, Head of Robotics at ARQUIMEA Research Center (ARC), posted this earlier today:
I usually publish about robotic #actuation, so this is one of the rare ocasions where our work in robotics perception comes to light. This #research project has been in the making for quite some time now, it´s great to see a fully #neuromorphic #perception system delivering results on a...
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His own name and the names of the researchers in his ARC robotics perception team, which he congratulates on their “fantastic work” in the above post, match with more than half of the co-authors of the research paper “Real-Time Beach Monitoring: Addressing Beach Safety with UAVs and Computer Vision” that I shared last month.
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-454042
While the paper is not open access and I thus still cannot verify whether or not it already mentions the event-based Prophesee & Akida drone solution, it is at least quite likely that the other co-authors would already have been aware of Akida at the time of publication (which appears to be 1 January 2024; the paper was subsequently presented at the 2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in early November 2024, cf. page 16 of the PDF programme accessible on
https://eventos.upm.es/109808/detail/robot-2024-.html), given Miguel Lopez wrote that “This #research project has been in the making for quite some time now…” - and even if not, well, they are definitely now.
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All co-authors not underlined are affiliated with the research group “Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics” (CVAR) within the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), headed by Pascual Campoy, who has been a full professor at UPM for more than 42 years and has been involved in more than 40 R&D projects,
including over 25 technical transfer projects directly contracted with the industry.
The paper’s first author is Rodrigo Da Silva Gómez, a UPM student:
The paper’s remaining three co-authors are two current PhD students and a former PhD student at CVAR-UPM who is now an AI consultant and freelancer:
The way I see it, that bodes well for the CVAR researchers at UPM (which ranks as Spain’s top technical university, by the way) potentially using our technology for current or future technical transfer projects with industry partners.