Seven promising early-stage European startups have been selected to join the ABB Industrial AI Accelerator to explore industrial applications of their concepts and speed up their development, as ABB continues to pursue pioneering digital solutions. The selected startups joined the 4-month program to collaborate with an ABB business unit or function on a specific use case. This way, the startups receive coaching and technical support as well as the advantage to win customers, grow and commercialize their solution on a global level.
Startups participating in the accelerator use AI components to power their solution or develop enabling technologies to deploy AI, and show enormous potential in an industrial context. The seven startups are:
- Dutch Analytics (Delft, Netherlands) has designed a smart sensing solution and asset intelligence platform that predicts performance to reduce operational costs and increase asset uptime with a focus on the machine industry.
- Greenlytics (Stockholm, Sweden) provides data science solutions for probabilistic energy forecasting and energy trading for power traders as well as plant operators.
- OneWatt (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) has designed a non-invasive, non-contact predictive motor health maintenance system using sound. The data is gathered through their embedded acoustic recognition sensors, also called EARS. Vathos Agile
- Robotics (Düsseldorf, Germany) deploys computer vision and machine learning for applications in robotics and factory automation to help businesses increase flexibility.
- 8power (Cambridge, UK) produces self-powered wireless sensor solutions for industrial plant applications and machine condition monitoring. The startup uses their patented Vibration Energy Harvester to power their sensors.
- Cobrainer (Munich, Germany) applies machine learning and natural language processing for the analysis, management and visualization of expertise of individuals as well as within teams.
- Intelecy (Oslo, Norway) provides tools to analyze production data from the manufacturing and processing industry using machine learning to prevent breakdowns, predict failures, and improve production processes.
The top seven startups were selected out of more than 120 screened startups across 20 countries, in a two-month review process by ABB and AtomLeap. AtomLeap is a leading high-tech startup accelerator and business intelligence provider based in Berlin that is supporting ABB in running the accelerator.
