Why Shield AI: The Intersection Between Gaming and AI
A conversation with Alex Rozgo, a Dynamical Systems Engineer at Shield AI You have devoted more than two decades to developing games on the cutting edge of technology. What attracted you about the hard problems which Shield AI is tackling? There are many hard problems, but it is not often you get the opportunity to […]
How to Evaluate User Experience
This past July I joined Shield AI, and so far it has been an experience designer’s dream. To work on a system that combines the physical and the digital, to create for a high-stakes use environment where design really matters, and to serve people who are committed to protecting others has been an opportunity that […]
Why Shield AI: Designing for Solutions
A conversation with Mark White, an Electrical Engineer at Shield AI Why is Shield AI the best place for an electrical engineer to be? One of the big career risks engineers face is to slowly be siloed into a specific role. I’ve seen this happen to many of my peers and have personally fought to […]
What is Machine Intelligence?
What is Machine Intelligence? The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is very prominent in mainstream media, causing the initials to often be used without full comprehension of the meaning. AI’s ability to capture the imagination is hardly new. There are movies reflecting on AI as far back as 1927 with Metropolis and continuing to present day; […]
How to Design a Product the Right Way
There are a lot of products in the world and many of them fail to delight in ways that I imagine their talented design teams originally intended. As an engineer at Shield AI, I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes some designs successful and some a failure. No team of talented people […]
Why Shield AI: The Complexities of Human-Machine Interaction
A conversation with Ali Momeni, Senior Principal Scientist and Director of User Services & Experience at Shield AI Prior to Shield AI your work was in creative arts. What project are you most proud of? What was it and why? “Tragedy of the Commons” by Ali Momeni and Robin Meier, Photo by Aurélie Cenno I […]
What Happens When Robots Work Together
You have dedicated your career to researching collective intelligence. How do you think about teams of robots working together? Where does that begin and how does it work? We start with a single robot. We move to small teams of robots working together. And at the same time, we develop the frameworks that are required […]
What is State Estimation in Robotics?
What excites you about the work you do with state estimation at Shield AI? Pushing the envelope. GPS-denied navigation and mapping have been an active research topic for years. Researchers have made great strides, and, building on top of that work, we are able to demonstrate really compelling autonomous capabilities. Of course, there is still […]
What is DevOps & Why Does it Matter?
The word DevOps, short for Developer Operations, has become an overloaded and overused term. If you ask a sampling of your colleagues what it actually means, you’ll probably get vastly different answers. This post aims to clarify some of the confusion from our vantage point here at Shield AI. First and foremost, DevOps is a […]
Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Andrew Reiter
You started your education in chemical engineering. Why did you ultimately pursue a career in AI & robotics? I had been interested in robotics from a young age, but as I went into college I had a strong interest in chemistry and engineering so I chose to study chemical engineering. As a junior in college, […]
