DEMO: Physical Intelligence, Bengaluru

About the event

DEMO is a deep-tech showcase series run by Endiya Partners. The third edition, Physical Intelligence, was about AI that leaves the screen and works in physical systems: robotics, hardware and sensing. It had live demos and discussions, with Amazon Web Services and Startup Policy Forum as partners.

Endiya says it evaluated companies across India and then selected six teams. They were FarmRobo Technologies, Nosh Robotics, Perceptyne, SwitchOn, WATER Robotics and Stellarview.

What we showed

Endiya described us in one line: “Edge-AI vision systems that perceive and analyse the world in real time.”

Niranjan Patil and Mayur Kulkarni presented on stage. They showed the Recon vehicle log: each vehicle that passes the camera, with its image and number plate.

Our own post for the event made the same point. Physical intelligence is about what AI does in the real world, not in theory. Our vision systems do perception and analysis on the device, at the point of capture, so the result is ready where it is needed.

This is how our products work on Indian roads. The Recon Global Shutter Camera reads plates, classifies vehicles and flags incidents in the camera itself, and sends results instead of raw video. VIDS detects incidents such as stalled vehicles and wrong-way driving. AI Search finds a vehicle in recorded footage from a plain-language description.

Why this audience

Four of the six teams, Stellarview among them, are members of the NVIDIA Inception programme for startups. The DEMO audience builds robots and hardware. They face the same field problems we do: changing light, weather, hardware limits and 24-hour operation. See our research page for how we test models before they reach a road.