Future Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, IoT and Big Data : list of artificial intelligence tools

Here’s a look at industry specific companies that utilise various forms of
artificial intelligence to solve some really interesting and particular problems
for different markets.

The other parts to this series:

Part 1 — AI tools for Personal use
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use — Enterprise Intelligence
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use (cont’d) — Enterprise Functions
Part 3 — AI tools for Industry specific businesses

Artificial Intelligence — industry specific:

🛌 Accomodation & Hotel

Exa — helps engage and delight guests with voice automated solutions

💱 Advertisement

Datacratic — helps you focus your digital ad on people you want to target

TNAB — a way to show personalised and engaging advertisement

🐮 Agriculture

Abundant Robotics — robotic solutions for difficult jobs in agriculture

AgriData — mapping software specifically for agriculture

Blue River Technology — acquired by John Deere

Descartes Labs — collects satellite imagery and makes ready for use+analysis

Grojo — grow room controller and monitoring system

Mavrx — aerial imaging that provides deep understanding of crop

Peat — automatic image recognition for plant damage

Pivot Bio — crop soil and microbial health management

Prospera Technologies — monitor and analyse plant health

TerrAvion — aerial imagery to learn about crop health and more

Trace Genomics — help measure soil health and nutritional status

Tule — remote crop water monitoring and irrigation control

UDIO — helps manage water usage

🔬 Biological

Atomwise — for novel small molecule discovery

Citrine — better material information

Color — helps you understand genetic risk for common hereditary cancers

Deep Genomics — predict what will happen within a cell when DNA is altered

Embryonic by BioTime — identify embryonic score of a sample online

Ginkgo Bioworks — we design custom microbes for a range markets

Grail — detect cancer early, when it can be cured

iCarbonX — a personal health data collection and organising platform

Mims — helps scientists with bioinformatics

Nanotronics — highly advanced microscope

Numerate — revolutionise small molecule drug design

Recursion Pharmaceuticals — drug discovery

SciAi — write biomedical papers in semantic format

Verily — developing tools to collect and organise health data

Whole Biome — a platform to develop microbiome interventions

Zymergen — engineer better microbes

💻 Cyber Security

Cybel Angel — prevention and real-time detection cyber incidents

Cylance — cybersecurity that predicts, prevents and protects from threats

Darktrace — spots patterns and prevent cyber crimes before they occur

Deep Instinct — zero day attacked protection for endpoints and mobile

Delphi — security against malware and malicious internet activity

Demisto — combines security orchestration and incident management

Drawbridge Networks — security-as-a-service

Emergent — helps predict where hackers will attack

Graphistry — helps teams investigate cyber threats quickly and easily

LeapYear — extracts threat insights from sensitive data

Pelican — a more intelligent and secure payment, compliance and banking

SentinelOne — predicts, prevents, detects and responds to threats

Shift Technology — helps reduce insurance fraud

SignalSense — evaluates traffic for threats occurring inside your network

Sift Science — helps prevent fraud and abuse for your web-scale business

SparkCognition — helps businesses predict a data breach

Versive — automates threat hunting supporting cybersecurity teams

Zimperium — real-time threat protection mobile and apps

🛒 Ecommerce

Basket — e-commerce shopping cart chatbot

Choice.ai — create and deploy stunning UI elements and widgets in seconds

Cody.ai — intelligent agent geared for ecommerce

Contented — dynamic page/website/email layouts optimised to your content

Firedrop — websites designed automatically, just add content and publish
Millions.ai — throw content at it and it builds you a website

Prix — helps to optimise pricing

Oly — selects and helps you publish content to your social media

Sentient — automatically makes website design changes to improve ROI

Signature — build elegant landing pages using your social media content

TheGrid — building websites automatically just by adding content

🎓 Education

AltSchool — a platform made to improve learning capabailities

Content Technologies (CTI) — research and development company

Coursera — online courses from top universities

Gradescope — streamlines the tedious parts of grading

Hugh — helps library users find any book quickly

Ivy.ai — customer service chatbot for higher education

Knewton — personalised learning for high and primary schools

Volley — makes training and development more engaging and effective

💵 Fintech

AlphaSense — highly intelligent search functionality

Alta5 — scriptable trading automation for your online brokerage account

Analytic.ai — hedging and arbitrageur protection

AppZen — audit your T&E expenses in real-time and cut your expenses

Cerebellum Capital — investment management firm driven by statistical ML

Darwinian Capital — uses AI to build investment products

iSentium — quantify unstructured social content into sentiment indicators

Kasisto — manage your banking via chat

Numerai — a new kind of hedge fund

Kensho — scalable ML for government and commercial (backed by CIA)

Origin — trades stocks and predicts prices

Pit.ai — mining trading strategies and management

Pitchbot.vc — learn if you’re investor ready or not through conversation

PrecisionLender — offers actionable financial insights to bankers

Quandl — delivers alternative datasets atop core financial and economic data

Sentient — helps with financial strategy and investment choices

👾 Gaming

Kythera — in-game AI to help game studios with development

🏥 ️ Healthcare

Atomwise — for novel small molecule discovery

Babylon — online doctor consultations using AI

BuddiHealth — helps improve process, payment systems and costs with RCM

Behold.ai — medical billing, coding and claims software

BenevolnentAI — helps with the discovery of new medicines

Calico Labs — trying to solve the problem of aging and diseases

CareSkore — patient profile software for predicting outcomes and trends

CloudMedx — a platform to help with clinical treatment and financial savings

CUDL — share clinical data securely and simplify ultrasound understanding

Deep6 Analytics — helps find better patients for clinical trials much faster

Diagnostics.ai — make medical diagnosis tests accurate and safer

DreamUp Vision — helps ophthamologists with screening of retinal diseases

Emr.ai — transform medical reports into international standard code

Embryonic by BioTime — identify embryonic score of a sample online

Enlitic — makes doctors faster and more accurate

Freenome — non-invasive medical screening to treat cancer and other disease

Healthcare.ai — open source tools to help increase ML in healthcare

IBM Watson Health — advanced capabilities for healthcare institutions

Lunit Inc. — medical data analysis and interpretation

Lytics — medical insights tools

MD.ai — collaborative medical research

Numerate Medical — revolutionise small molecule drug design

Oncora — precision radiation oncology for personalised treatment

Pharma AI — support pharmaceutical research and development

pulseData — predicts bad, expensive health outcomes before they happen

Qure — diagnosis for MRI, CT Scans and X-Rays

Sentrian — detects patient deterioration earlier with chronic diseases

twoXAR — accelerates drug discovery

Umps Health — helps detect elderly people emergency requirements

Viz — helps doctors treat patients faster with medical imaging

Zebra Medical Vision — medical imaging to help physicians and practitioners

Zephyr Health — helps life sciences companies connect the right people

📹 Image

3Scan — improving the accuracy and efficiency of anatomic pathology

Arterys — platform to help manage medical imaging

Bay Labs — developing cardiovascular imaging tools

Butterfly Network — medical imaging accessible to everyone in the world

Cortexica — a range of different advanced imagining products

Google DeepMind — does this really need a description?

Imagia — helps detect changes in cancer early

Kuznech — computer vision products range

Lunit Inc. — a range of medical imaging software

Zebra Medical Vision — medical imaging to help physicians and practitioners

🏗️ Infrastructure

Doxel — visual artificial intelligence for job sites

Flywheel — building performance platform

OJO Home — helps real estate agents turn prospects into clients for life

🏢 Insurance

Cape Analytics — identify property attributes at scale for underwriting

Underwrite.ai — dynamic modelling of credit risk

ZestFinance — improved underwriting for insurance companies

🏛 Legal

Beagle — helps law firms find deep hidden insights in legal text

Blue J Legal — enables tax professionals to strengthen their tax position

Equivant — helps decision making on convictions (not a fan of this!)

Kira — speeds the identification and analysis of contracts

Legal Robot — helps make sense of legal language and find errors

Premonition — helps you find lawyers based on their statistics

Peter — helps with legal contracts and timestamping

Ravel Law — enhances lawyers legal capabilities with deep insights

ROSS Intelligence — enhances lawyers legal capabilities with deep insights

Seal — contract discovery and analytics

💡 Manufacturing

Eigen Innovations — help manufacturers optimise productivity

Raven — interprets shop floor data and provides actions to operators

🗞️ News & Media

Dataminr — discovers high-impact events and news instantly

🐨 Other

Maxima — claim to be working on artificial general intelligence

makeAvatar.ai — create 3d avatars from selfies, instantly

Harmony.ai — an IIoT ecosystem leveraging leading devices and platforms

Hugh — helps library users find any book quickly

PETRL — promotes moral consideration for algorithms

Purple — learn more about your customers through their Wifi usage

Personalised Privacy Assistant Project — learns about privacy preferences
of users to give them control of what information about themselves others see

TARA — helps you manage projects

Ulzard — transform a UI screenshot into working code

Vue — fashion trend

👜 Retail Finance

Betterment — personalised retirement planning

Earnest — alternative loan financing using prediction of your income in future

Lendo — a new way of credit scoring aimed at people without credit access

Mirador — improved and quicker decision making for lending as a borrower

Tala (a InVenture) — a new way of credit scoring using smart phone data

Playment — training data, image annotation and more for enterprise

Prix — helps to optimise pricing

🔒 Security & Safety

Alive.ai — drones for agriculture, public emergency and more

Irvine Sensors — detects foreign and intentionally placed objects for security

🏅 Sports

Arena — sport performance prediction and analysis

📦 Transportation and Logistics

Acerta — helps better understand their vehicle data to find root faults causes

Aerea — supply chain management, manufacturing and prediction

Alloy — analytics and supply chain management software

Armada — helps to track and improve supply chain costs and efficiencies

Captain — smart delivery software for restaurants

ClearMetal — helps predict logistics issues and reduce costs

Marble — creating a fleet of intelligent courier robots

PitStop — the fastest way to detect and correct errors in PDF files

Preteckt — be informed in advance before your truck experiences a problem

Routific — improve and plan local logistics routes in real-time

Preteckt — helps diagnose and predict truck faults

Seldin — AI powered supply chains

SupplyAI — helps predict if customers are likely to return a purchase

🚗 Travel

Mezi — helps with booking flights, hotels, restaurant reservations and more

Voya — help booking and managing business travels

📺 VR & AR

Drop — I was just intrigued by their website…

Autonomous Systems & Robotics:

✈️ Aerial

Achron — automated UAV operations

Airware — drones for industrial purposes

Alive.ai — drones for agriculture, public emergency and more

DJI — everyone has this drone

DroneDeploy — the software platform for drone mapping

Fathom — enables rapid prototyping, validation of DNN and CV drones

Lily — drones that follow you

Mavrx — aerial imaging that provides deep understanding of crop

Shield — autonomous unmanned systems for civil and defence

Skycatch — turn drone photos into 3D models

Skydio — building a new generation of AI powered drones

🚘 Autonomous Vehicles

Aeye — safe and reliable vehicle autonomy

AIMotive — autonomous vehicle hardware and software

Area17 — autonomous navigation

Autonomic — building self-driving car capabilities

Auro Robotics — self driving shuttle for campuses and corporate parks

Comm.ai — helps make your car self driving compatible

Dispatch — creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles for pedestrian spaces

Drive.ai — building the brain of self-driving vehicles

Dryvless.ai — peer-to-peer fully autonomous transportation logistics network

Five AI — autonomous vehicles systems that can work anywhere

Mobileye — self-driving vehicles for industry

Nauto — give your fleet self-driving capabilities

nuTonomy — software for driverless fleets

PlusAI — working toward Level 4/5 self-driving car (semi-fully autonomous)

Shield — autonomous unmanned systems for civil and defence

Tesla — auto pilot and self-driving capability by the one and only..

Uber — autonomous vehicle program by Uber

Waymo — Google’s self-driving vehicle project

🤖 Industrial Autonomy & Robotics

Airware — drones for industrial purposes

Anki — dedicated to bringing consumer robotics into everyday life

Clearpath Robotics — develop autonomous robots for different purposes

Corva — provides drilling analytics and other insights for gas and oil

Dispatch — creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles for pedestrian spaces

Fetch Robotics — optimising warehouse and logistics operations

Graphcore — IPU that is 10x to 100x times more efficient and cost effective

Harvest Automation — robots for a range of industrial environments

Jaybridge Robotics — develops vehicle automation for heavy equipment

Kindred AI — exploring systems to enable robots to participate in our world

Mov.ai — industrial automous robots

Ortelio — the software to help robots do what they do

Osaro — a range of autonomous vehicles and robots

Rethink Robotics — the people behind Baxter + Sawyer collaborative robots

Roboy — a humanoid robot aimed to be as capable as a human

Spoon — a robot (I couldn’t work out its purpose, but it sounded cool!)

SoftBank — robotics and other advanced technology company

Tend — monitor and control your production line from anywhere

Yandex Data Factory — provides AI-based solutions that directly
increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve energy efficiency

Academic & Research:

🏫 Research

Cogitai — developing continual shared learning artificial intelligence

IBM Q — building universal quantum computers for business and science

Isris — AI for scientific documentation to help find solutions

Kimera — developing AGI to help cure cancer and solve other problems

Meta — helps researchers understand what is happening globally in science
and shows them where science is headed

NNAISENSE — building large-scale neural network solutions

Numenta — reverse engineering the neocortex

OpenAI — discovering and enacting the path to safe AGI

Swarm Insight — better, real-time feedback from groups

PETRL — promotes moral consideration for algorithms

Facebook AI Research

Alternative (interesting projects worth a mention):

❤️ Privacy and Social Impact

AI Now Initiative — research initiative working across disciplines to
understand the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence to
ensure a more equitable future.

PETRL — People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement
Learns — promotes moral consideration for algorithms, with the idea
“you are just an algorithm implemented on biological hardware”

Personalised Privacy Assistant Project — learns about privacy preferences
of users to give them control of what information about themselves others see.

Reference:

Anguilla — top level domain list (my primary source)

Asgard.vc — The German Artificial Intelligence Landscape

AI 100 — CB Insights (helped also form part of my structure)

AI X Prize

CIO Applications (helped form part of my structure)

Sam DeBrule — The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning

O’Reilly — The Current State of Machine Learning 3.0

Plus random discoveries that I came across the last couple months

And of course, the countless suggestions from the community
— thank you all very much (if I’ve missed any still just let me know)!

Also, check out the other parts of this series:

Part 1 — AI tools for Personal use
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use — Enterprise Intelligence
Part 2 — AI tools for Business use (cont’d) — Enterprise Functions
Part 3 — AI tools for Industry specific businesses

Let me know if I missed any companies you think should be included,
any edits I should make or if there any that just shouldn’t be in this list?
Liam Hänel here, CEO and co-founder of Lyra,
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Originally published at Lyra (www.lyr.ai)

Friday, January 26, 2018

list of artificial intelligence tools