National Pothole Day is Jan. 15. Its timing is no accident.
All over the Northern hemisphere, potholes are at their suspension-wrecking, spine-shaking worst this month.
Thanks to AI, one startup is working all year long to alleviate this menace. Benjamin Schmidt, president and co-founder of RoadBotics, is using the tech to pave the way to better roads.
His startup — a member of the NVIDIA Inception startup accelerator program — is identifying areas at risk of potholes, so city governments can improve roads before damage worsens.
Schmidt spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how RoadBotics is working with over 160 governments across the world to collect and analyze video data to improve preventative maintenance.
“The sooner you can detect [surface distresses], the sooner you can put a cheaper intervention in now that really just saves the life of the road.” — Benjamin Schmidt [5:00]
“RoadBotics was founded at exactly the right moment with the right tech, the right hardware. So we’re now in this sweet spot where we can actually deploy a solution” — Benjamin Schmidt [6:46]
Lynn Richards, president and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism, and Charles Marohn, president and co-founder of Strong Towns, weigh in on the benefits of using AI to design cities, and simulating designs in VR prior to construction.
Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive at NVIDIA, explains the capabilities necessary for autonomous driving, from object detection to AI to high performance computing.
Bryan Catanzaro, head of applied deep learning research at NVIDIA, explains his journey in AI from UC Berkeley, to Baidu, to NVIDIA. He’s striving for AI that works so seamlessly that users don’t even notice it, and he explains how GPUs are helping to make that happen.
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