Three projects that revolve aroundartificial intelligence, to be applied to education, fitness and health. They were developed by the partners of Arrow Electronics Italia, also this year present at Maker Faire Rome, scheduled from 8 to 10 October.
The first project is Roobopoli, born from the collaboration with Bluenet e STMicroelectronics. Roobopoli aims to create an educational experience in the field of smart cities, smart industries and smart grids. Roobopoli is a miniature smart city where the life of Roobo inhabitants is assisted by modern technologies, the same ones available in real cities, reproduced in scale for educational purposes with tests and simulations.
One of the main activities consists in the construction and programming of vehicles called RooboKart, which will have to move independently on the roads of Roobopoli. The RooboKart and the Roobopoli city are equipped with advanced sensors and programming cards from STMicroelectronics. The mission of the project is to promote the understanding, development and scale experimentation of new communication technologies, mobility, environmental protection and energy efficiency, automation technologies in industry 4.0.
The project ensures an educational experience for learning robotics and the programming of new generation microcontrollers, which is inserted in the context of the Stem disciplines, addressing current issues, with implications that border on other school disciplines and in the good rules of the common respect (like stopping at a red light). Bluenet will continue to improve the Roobokart and expand its potential as a teaching tool.
Robots, artificial intelligence, prototypes: discovering new technologies at Maker Faire 2021
The second project that Arrow Electronics will exhibit at Maker Faire 2021 is Gymnasio, a fitness application. Gymnasio is a deep-tech startup made up of five engineers and designers united by the goal of democratizing professional, safe and personalized training. The startup behind the project was founded by three students of the Politecnico di Milano and two students of the Politecnico di Torino, and is among the winners of Switch2Product, the program that promotes innovative solutions on the market, new technologies and new business ideas.
An innovative startup, Gymnasio is incubated by the Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator of the Politecnico di Milano – Polihub. The technology that will be presented uses a portable device that combines artificial intelligence with a functional design to monitor the posture of the human body during training. The monitoring and correction of users’ movements, even in small spaces, therefore makes it possible to make professional personal training within everyone’s reach.
The third artificial intelligence project sees the collaboration with Sma-RTy. The device AuverCare it falls within the field of hospital technologies. AuverCare is a technology that can monitor patients during hospital care providing continuous assistance. The service detects risky behaviors and provides continuous monitoring of health and vital signs.
AuverCare works through a fusion of multimodal videos, where patient anonymity is guaranteed. The device sends health parameters to the medical staff, which detects the data through a special application. In the event of risky behavior or anomalies, the system automatically transmits reports and alarms to medical personnel. Furthermore, it is thanks to an embedded AI core that all the data acquired by a given device are processed locally, without resorting to external components.