Teledyne e2v and Yumain, a provider of AI vision solutions for industry, aim to innovate to make AI technology more accessible and fundamentally advance it.

Vincent Hector, Vice President of Market Development at Teledyne e2v, said, "We’re very excited to be collaborating with Yumain on this innovative project. Our image sensor capability coupled with their tailored AI expertise will allow us to develop AI-based vision solutions which will be easily accessible for industrial customers and bring real benefits to their applications."

Marc Benoit, CEO of Yumain, commented, "Edge AI, as we know it today, consists of an optimization of machine learning models and computation inherited from the cloud. We have 10 years of experience in this field, which has shown us that alternative implementations of AI could be more suitable and scalable for the constraints of factory and production lines. Teledyne e2v’s image sensor design and production expertise are paramount to bringing these novel ideas to reality. This initiative is a key milestone for us and one that emphasizes our potential to investors."

Teledyne e2v is part of the Teledyne Imaging Group. The company is active in healthcare, life sciences, aerospace, transportation, defense and security, and industrial markets, among others.