For 25 Years, Wikipedia Trained AI. Now it Wants Payback
Wikipedia’s partnerships with Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, Mistral, and Amazon have ushered it into the AI era.
- Published on April 14, 2021
- In AI Features
We Will Attain Full Autonomy For Small & Slow Vehicles In 5 Years: Manesh Jain, CEO, Flo Mobility
Lidar Is Ugly, Costly, High-Maintenance & Non-Scalable.
- By Ambika Choudhury
For this week’s startup feature, Analytics India Magazine spoke to Manesh Jain, co-founder and CEO at Flo Mobility to understand how the Bangalore-based startup is building smart and sustainable transport solutions for everyone.
Founded in 2019 by Manesh Jain and Angad Singi, FLO Mobility aims at automating e-scooters by controlling them without any on-field human intervention, solving electric vehicle fleet problems like optimising charge cycles, last-mile movement to match demand supply, vehicle cluttering and paving the way to build seamless micro-mobility operations.
The company’s vision is to build a completely autonomous, covered, self-balanced electric two-wheeler, to take riders to their destination by itself. Instead of riders reaching the pick-up spot, e-scooters reach riders’ location based on remote Teleoperated vehicle movement.
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The startup has come up with a Teleoperations kit called FLO-TOK that can be installed on existing
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Ambika Choudhury
A Technical Journalist who loves writing about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. A lover of music, writing and learning something out of the box.
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