Perceptive Automata shuts down after funding dries up

Founded in 2015, Perceptive Automata was trying to solve what it, and others, have described as the hardest problem in robotics today: endowing AI with human understanding. In its attempt to do that, Perceptive Automata combined behavioral science techniques and machine learning into a product called State of Mind AI (SOMAI). The core software module is wrapped in a C++ API that enables integration with autonomous driving stacks. When working with autonomous vehicles, Perceptive Automata said SOMAI would help the systems better anticipate and react to human behavior. SOMAI ingests in real-time data from a system’s sensors of the humans around it, including eye contact, posture, physical orientation, head movement and more. SOMAI then outputs real-time estimates about two human state of mind attributes: intention and awareness. Those outputs are sent to a system’s stacks and, Perceptive Automata claims, would better enable autonomous navigation around cyclists, other drivers and pedestrians. You can watch a video explanation of SOMAI below.

source-https://www.therobotreport.com/perceptive-automata-shuts-down-after-funding-dries-up/