Category: Mapping

RoadMentor Demo Day March 7

The world of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, and as AI performance improves from 95% to 99.99999%, traditional annotation methodologies are no longer sufficient to keep up with the changing AI landscape. Organizations that fail to adapt risk falling behind the competition. To address this issue, Hyperspec AI has launched RoadMentor, a SaaS platform designed…
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Navigating the World with Words: How Large Language Models Power Autonomous Systems

HD maps are a critical component of autonomous vehicle technology, providing information on the physical environment in which the vehicle operates. The semantic layer of an HD map is a critical component of this information, representing the meaning and context of the physical environment. One of the most effective ways to encode this information is…
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The Purpose of the Map

There’s a scene from The Office (American) where Michael so literally follows the instructions from his GPS that he drives into the lake while screaming ‘THE MACHINE KNOWS’. While it might seem like this was written for TV, it actually happened to a woman in Tobermory, ON and it’s easy to find other unbelievable driving…
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ROS 1 vs ROS 2 Tradeoffs and Advantages

ROS (Robot Operating System) is a popular open-source robotics framework that provides libraries and tools for building robot applications. There are currently two versions of ROS: ROS 1 and ROS 2. In this article, we will explore the tradeoffs and advantages of both versions and discuss the tools available for converting between them. We will…
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