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Business Wire
12-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Encord Launches Unified Platform to Accelerate Physical AI Development Across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Drones
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Encord, the data infrastructure company for multimodal AI, today announced the launch of its Physical AI suite. With support for 3D, LiDAR, and point cloud data, the platform streamlines the entire AI lifecycle for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drone development teams, from raw sensor data management to model debugging. This enables development teams to accelerate the delivery of advanced autonomous capabilities with higher quality data. Developing AI for physical systems involves navigating complex data types and fragmented workflows. Encord's platform addresses these challenges by integrating critical capabilities into a single, cohesive environment. This enables development teams to accelerate the delivery of advanced autonomous capabilities with higher quality data and deeper insights, while improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. Key capabilities: Scalable and Secure Data Ingestion: Teams can securely synchronize data from their cloud buckets directly into Encord. The platform seamlessly ingests and intelligently manages high-volume, continuous raw sensor data streams, including LiDAR point clouds, camera imagery, and diverse telemetry, as well as commonly supported industry file formats (such as MCAP). Data Curation and Quality Control: The platform delivers automated tools for data quality checks and intelligent curation, helping teams identify critical edge cases and structure data for optimal model training. Teams can efficiently filter, batch, and select precise data segments for specific annotation and training needs. AI-Assisted Data Labeling: The platform supports AI-assisted labeling capabilities, including automated object tracking and single-shot labeling across scenes. It supports a wide array of annotation types and ensures high-precision labels across different sensor modalities and over time, even as annotation requirements evolve. AI Model Evaluation and Debugging: The platform provides tools to evaluate model predictions against ground truth, pinpointing failure modes and identifying the exact data that led to unexpected outcomes. This capability shortens iteration cycles, allowing teams to quickly diagnose issues, refine models, and improve AI accuracy for fail-safe applications. Workflow Management and Collaboration: Built for large-scale operations, the platform includes robust workflow management tools. Administrators can distribute tasks among annotators, track performance, assign QA reviews, and ensure compliance across projects. About Encord Encord is a multimodal data management platform for AI. With Encord, AI teams can manage, curate, and label images, videos, audio, documents, text, LiDAR and DICOM files using agentic and human-in-the-loop workflows. With built-in automation, real-time collaboration tools, and active learning integration, Encord enables faster iteration on multimodal perception models and more efficient dataset refinement.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Encord Launches Unified Platform to Accelerate Physical AI Development Across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Drones
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Encord, the data infrastructure company for multimodal AI, today announced the launch of its Physical AI suite. With support for 3D, LiDAR, and point cloud data, the platform streamlines the entire AI lifecycle for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and drone development teams, from raw sensor data management to model debugging. Developing AI for physical systems involves navigating complex data types and fragmented workflows. Encord's platform addresses these challenges by integrating critical capabilities into a single, cohesive environment. This enables development teams to accelerate the delivery of advanced autonomous capabilities with higher quality data and deeper insights, while improving operational efficiency and reducing costs. Key capabilities: Scalable and Secure Data Ingestion: Teams can securely synchronize data from their cloud buckets directly into Encord. The platform seamlessly ingests and intelligently manages high-volume, continuous raw sensor data streams, including LiDAR point clouds, camera imagery, and diverse telemetry, as well as commonly supported industry file formats (such as MCAP). Data Curation and Quality Control: The platform delivers automated tools for data quality checks and intelligent curation, helping teams identify critical edge cases and structure data for optimal model training. Teams can efficiently filter, batch, and select precise data segments for specific annotation and training needs. AI-Assisted Data Labeling: The platform supports AI-assisted labeling capabilities, including automated object tracking and single-shot labeling across scenes. It supports a wide array of annotation types and ensures high-precision labels across different sensor modalities and over time, even as annotation requirements evolve. AI Model Evaluation and Debugging: The platform provides tools to evaluate model predictions against ground truth, pinpointing failure modes and identifying the exact data that led to unexpected outcomes. This capability shortens iteration cycles, allowing teams to quickly diagnose issues, refine models, and improve AI accuracy for fail-safe applications. Workflow Management and Collaboration: Built for large-scale operations, the platform includes robust workflow management tools. Administrators can distribute tasks among annotators, track performance, assign QA reviews, and ensure compliance across projects. About Encord Encord is a multimodal data management platform for AI. With Encord, AI teams can manage, curate, and label images, videos, audio, documents, text, LiDAR and DICOM files using agentic and human-in-the-loop workflows. With built-in automation, real-time collaboration tools, and active learning integration, Encord enables faster iteration on multimodal perception models and more efficient dataset refinement. View source version on Contacts ulrik@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Hindustan Times
08-06-2025
- Science
- Hindustan Times
Data jam studies heat islands in Mumbai
MUMBAI: The next time you're sweating it on a hot and muggy day, take a look around. The aim of this exercise is to determine whether you are positioned in a 'heat island'. 'If you think the temperature on IMD's site does not reflect what you're experiencing, it could be because of your location and the impact of urban heat,' said a presenter at Mumbai 'Datajam on Urban Heat in Mumbai' at St Xavier's College on Saturday. The data jam was organised by Open City, an urban data portal, along with NGOs such as C40 Cities, World Resources Institute India and Maharashtra's State Climate Cell. For seven hours on Saturday, more than 30 people including students and professionals assembled to study the effects of urban heat and how to tackle it. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, urban heat islands form when some areas experience hotter temperatures than others within a city. The participants at the data jam worked with data sets and maps that reflected land surface temperatures, demographics, formal and informal settlements, the morphology of buildings and other related elements in each civic ward in Mumbai – with a view to identifying heat islands, reasons and solutions. The civic wards focused on most were the ones that topped the list in vulnerability assessment done for the Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP). Slum areas formed the largest heat islands in Mumbai, owing to lack of ventilation and population density. But, the participants found, this phenomenon extended to some mid-rise buildings, which created a wind tunnel and trapped heat. Interestingly, in H East ward, 70% of the population is crammed into 10% of the land that forms the slum pockets in Bandra East. This 10% land traps high amounts of heat, where temperatures range from 43 to 48 degrees Celsius. Similarly, in the Bandra-Kurla Complex, which is spacious and ventilated, the glass buildings are the heat traps. Moreover, H East ward has little or no healthy vegetation. M-East ward (Govandi), which ranks low on socio-economic factors, was divided according to the morphology of buildings and type of settlements. Participants highlighted that the BARC residential area was the only ideal spot in the ward, with low-rises and low population density. 'While several slum rehabilitation buildings are planned in the area, the height, density and construction material should be considered in terms of thermal conductivity. The ideal would be mid-rise and mid-density,' said Varun Phadke, a second-year MTech student at IIT Bombay. Participants working on L ward (Kurla) suggested natural coolers and heat-resistant pavements as mitigation measures in the long term, more air-conditioned buses, and water filters at the bus stops. They also said that the Mithi River traps heat due to stagnant water and pollution, so cleaning it would act as a cooling agent. These suggestions will be further presented to the ward officers and the state climate cell. The Maharashtra state climate cell undertook the development of a heat-resilience framework, which aims to look at local wards on a granular level for heat mitigation.
Indian Express
06-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
BMC data shows Mumbai recorded reduction in emission levels
Mumbai has recorded a declining trend of carbon emissions between 2019 and 2024, shows the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's data that was presented in the annual environment budget released on June 5. Carbon emission refers to the release of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide. This process is often a result of human activities like burning fossil fuels, industrial processes and deforestation. Emissions are measured as per carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)–a unit of measurement used to compare the climate impact of different Green House Gases (GHG) by expressing them in terms of equivalent amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The trend was recorded to make a GHG inventory for Mumbai which includes an analysis of sectors and sources that emit carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Civic officials said that such an inventory enables the city to build evidence-based mitigation actions and policies to monitor progress–aligned with global community standards. As part of the Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP), the first GHG inventory was recorded in 2019. According to the GHG inventory, nearly 74% of the emissions are contributed by stationary energy sources–which includes buildings and entities that depend on fossil fuel, electricity or thermal energy, while 19.1% is contributed by the transportation sector and the balance 6% is emitted from waste resources. According to the data, Mumbai recorded a decline of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission levels by an approximate 2 million tonnes between 2019 and 2023. The civic body's data shows that in 2019, a baseline study of emissions showed 26.75 million tonnes of which stood at 24.6 million tonnes by 2023–which is a decline by 2.15 million tonnes. 'Between 2019 and 2021, Mumbai's emissions steadily fell reaching their lowest point in 2021, largely due to pandemic induced economic slowdowns, before rising again post 2021,' said the BMC's budget document. Besides this, the data also shows that there has been a decline in emission from solid waste –which the civic body has attributed to the centralised waste processing facility that was started in Kanjurmarg and the BMC's data also shows that the waste sector has shown an overall reduction of emission by 6.4% which equates 1.57 million tonnes of CO2e. 'Emissions from the waste sector have shown a slight decrease, especially due to reduced emissions from solid waste generated in the city, which may be attributed to improved centralised waste processing and monitoring,' the BMC's document read. 'There are reductions observed in the commercial, institutional buildings and facilities sector (by 26.6%) and residential buildings sector (by 11.36%),' the document further said. Meanwhile, in its budget, the civic body has put forward a target of reducing Mumbai's overall emission levels by 30% till 2030 and 44% by 2040. Furthermore, the BMC in its climate budget has set up long-term targets that are to be achieved by 2030. According to the document, the civic body has aimed to reduce air pollution by at least 30%, urban heat island effect by 40% and increase vegetation cover by 40%. Furthermore, in its climate budget, the BMC has also proposed decarbonising Mumbai by at least 50% by electrification of all the existing BEST buses and civic-owned vehicles.
Hindustan Times
06-06-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
BMC's climate budget: old wine in a new bottle?
Mumbai: Jumping on the World Environment Day bandwagon, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday put their money where their mouth is, announcing a ₹17,000-crore 'climate budget' for the city. The civic body claimed that 37% of its capital expenditure budget will go towards 'climate-allied' activities. These include a wide range of things, from the biomining of the Deonar dumping ground to electric buses for BEST and solar panels, along with the construction of toilets, water infrastructure, markets, homes for project-affected people (PAP), and new fire brigade stations, among others. The BMC has increased its climate budget from last year's ₹10,224.24 crore by including the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) and seven more departments within it. Most of the activities listed in the budget are old BMC plans due to their effect on climate change. In March 2024, the BMC also created a new environment and climate change department. Claiming that its actions are working, the BMC also released data for greenhouse gas emissions till 2022-23, which showed a decrease from 2019-20 figures, but an increase from the Covid years in between. The BMC's climate spending takes its Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP), launched in 2022, as its benchmark. The plan is a strategic framework to make Mumbai climate-resilient and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, the ambit of the climate budget is wide. On the one hand, it concentrates on mitigating climate change, which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand, it also focuses on increasing the resilience of the city's population to the effects of climate change, i.e. adaptation. This gives the BMC a wide remit of activities to include under its climate spends. For instance, under unquantifiable actions taken, some of the activities listed include building toilets and installing sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators in public toilets; laying water pipelines, constructing storage tanks, a new water treatment plant and a desalination plant to improve water supply; stabilisation of hill slopes to reduce disaster risk; concessions for BEST bus tickets to those with disabilities; laying sewer lines; new healthcare facilities; improvement of footpaths, construction and maintenance of foot-over-bridges; a transportation and commercial hub at Dahisar Check Naka, municipal markets, PAP homes for the Goregaon Mulund Link Road project; and even a swimming pool and sports complex. Environmentalists, who are not new to challenging the BMC, were sceptical of the lofty budget. 'How to destroy the climate for 364 days, and how to plan for correcting the destruction for one day: that is the crux of the BMC's climate action plan,' said Zoru Bhathena, an environmental activist. 'The budget doesn't mention anything new that the civic body shouldn't already be doing,' said Debi Goenka, executive trustee of the nonprofit Conservation Action Trust. 'Setting up LED lights was introduced 10 years ago. Why is it newly added in the budget? BEST has already placed orders for EV buses that have not been delivered yet, so it is the same thing repeating. Many measures that could be taken up are severely lacking, including simple things like adding solar panels at bus depots. All this while the BMC is continuing to cut trees rampantly.' Sumaira Abdulali, founder of the NGO Awaaz Foundation, concurred. 'The number of trees being cut for infrastructure projects will not be covered in the greening of islands that they have taken up,' she said. 'As per the climate budget report, the PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels have come down to about 85 on average. Averaging out the winter numbers with the whole year will definitely bring it down. That doesn't mean the pollution is less. Regulation of the construction sites doesn't need a different budget. There just has to be proper enforcement of the AQI norms,' she added.
