Toyota and Invisible AI are partnering on the factory use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Toyota Motor North America (TNMA) and Invisible AI have joined hands to improve quality, safety, and productivity at the 14 Toyota factories in the US through the use of AI. The platform works with so-called ‘invisible eyes’ to track real-time human motion to help customers run accurate, reliable, and safe operations. The first TNMA plant to implement this technology, Toyota Indiana, will initially deploy 500 of these ‘edge AI’ devices this year. (Invisible AI)

The invisible eyes of the intelligent factory

These edge devices, that function on their own without using the cloud or any bandwidth, comprise a built-in NVIDIA Jetson module, 1TB of storage, and a high-resolution 3D camera.

Processing independently, these devices track body motion data to identify the potential for high-stress injuries and prevent simple defects in real-time.

“The software is entirely anonymized and privacy-centric by design and can be deployed in 60 seconds without any coding or engineering expertise, allowing customers to scale to thousands of cameras with ease,” Invisible AI said in a statement. The company also said that the computer vision systems learn all the time and can run autonomously.

The benefits can potentially generate millions of dollars in savings for the customer.

Jihad Abdul-Rahiim, an advanced technology engineer at Toyota said: “Invisible AI is not only helping us find opportunities for improvement on the assembly lines, but we’re also constantly finding new use cases for their technology such as ergonomics analysis to proactively prevent injuries.”

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Image Credit: View from Virtual Tour of Toyota Indiana Plant