Meet Drishti, the AI startup that wants to be the ‘Google for actions’
Robots and automation will take over jobs. The world’s heading towards an era of jobless growth. It’s not just blue collar workers but lawyers, bankers and even journalists are on the firing line. Doomsday prophesies about artificial intelligence are many.
A Palo-Alto based startup, with its engineering office based in Bengaluru, recently raised $10 million in funding betting against that premise. Meet Drishti, a computer vision startup which wants to be the ‘Google for actions.’ It uses computer vision to recognise and record human actions on the factory floor.
“What we’re solving is a 100-year-old problem, it’s a 12 trillion dollar problem that all of manufacturing deals with,” says Prasad Akella, the CEO and co-founder of Drishti.
The problem statement? How do you build the best production system so that it delivers productivity, quality, and things like traceability, which are very fundamental parts of the manufacturing process?