CONYERS, GA -- October 7, 2016, -- InvestorsHub NewsWire --
GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (Pink Sheets: GOSY | http://www.GeckoSystems.com) announced today that not
only did the Company turn a modest profit for the quarter ending
June 30, but continues to gain traction in the marketplace. A
notable international market research firm identified the Company
as one of seven leaders in the service robotics marketplace. The
Company introduced a new mobile robot concept for public safety and
initiated a joint venture with an NYC AI firm for a machine
sentient and moral robo-nurse. For over nineteen years,
GeckoSystems has dedicated itself to development of "AI Mobile
Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)."
Despite only being an initial sale to this JV partner, the
$121,700 in gross revenue garners GeckoSystems a net profit after
taxes for the quarter ending June 30 of $21,003. This sale does not
include any software licensing revenues, stated Martin Spencer,
CEO, GeckoSystems Intl. Corp.
Recently, an internationally renowned market research firm,
Research and Markets, again named GeckoSystems as one of the key
market players in the service robotics industry. The report covers
the present scenario and the growth prospects of the Global Mobile
Robotics market for the period 2015-2019. Research and Markets
stated in their report, that they: "forecast the Global Mobile
Robotics market to grow at a CAGR of nearly sixteen percent over
the period 2015-2019." The report has been prepared based on an
in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts and
covers the Americas, the APAC, and the EMEA regions. The report is
entitled, Global Professional Service Robotics Market
2015-2019.
GeckoSystems has been recognized by Research and Markets for
several years now and it is the most comprehensive report of the
global service robotics industry to my knowledge. I am pleased that
their experienced market researchers are sufficiently astute to
accept that small service robot firms, such as GeckoSystems, can
nonetheless develop advanced technologies and products as well, or
better, as much larger, multi-billion dollar corporations such as
AB Electrolux, etc.
It is an honor that they recognize the value of the over 100
man-years we have invested in our proprietary AI robotics
Intellectual Properties and my full time work for nearly 20 years
now. Our suite of AI mobile robot solutions is well tested,
portable, and extensible. It is a reality that we could partner
with any other company named in the report and provide them with
high-level autonomy for collision free navigation at the lowest
possible cost to manufacture," remarked Spencer.
The new mobile robot concept is for better, lower cost public
safety. All of those affiliated with the Company share the abject
horror that most Americans are now still trying to process
regarding the recent, indoor (and outdoor) mass shooting and
murdering of tens of innocent victims.
To better manage those 21st century mass shootings, the Company
is offering to prototype and deploy the GeckoNED(tm), a new type of
mobile security robot that is a Non-violent Enforcement Device with
a high level of independent mobile autonomy, sensor rich for
enhanced situational awareness, and ease of teleoperation by
designated public safety personnel. (See below for more
information.)
The joint venture with the NYC AI firm plans to address many of
the same safety, morality and ethics issues of Googles advanced
DeepMind artificial intelligence project from a different
perspective.
As a result of our past and present discussions with the senior,
internationally recognized AI scientist, the NYC AI JV (the JV) has
decided to reveal the following benefits about the near term scope
of its focused AI synergies.
The JV envisions the design of pseudo-cognitive mobile robotic
systems that can monitor and demonstrate understanding of some, not
all, but many, specific forms of human activity, in order to
"deduce" what should benefit the person. Numerous of those lower
level, fundamental needs identified are within the capabilities of
GeckoSystems AI mobile service robot (MSR) solutions and with the
cooperation of person receiving care.
The goal for the pseudo-cognitive MSR is to provide
context-adaptive active support to elderly care receivers and/or to
individuals with specific forms of moderate to mild health issues,
whether short term or chronic.
The JV believes that integrating multiple forms of different
environmental and human physiological and sensing systems will
enable beneficially higher levels of proactive autonomy and
adaptive interaction and therefore offer a much more compelling
value proposition for caregivers and care receivers.
This JV will deliver pseudo-cognitive AI engines that will be
able to perform a set of advanced assistive actions currently not
offered by present state-of-the-art approaches. Sensor rich MSRs
produce big data requiring deep learning capabilities to achieve
reliable predictive analytics to result in beneficial machine
intelligence. This is much more difficult to achieve than business
enterprise AI engines such as Watson, because the answers must be
available in a timely fashion and in any circumstances encountered
by the 7/24 caregiving MSR.
Proactive-autonomy ambulatory required assistance tasks, that
is, invoking automatically executed emergent robot behaviors, based
on context-specific caree monitoring and situational awareness,
including AI initiated approaching of a patient, following them
from room to room at a close, but safe, distance to provide timely
cooperative assistance whenever and wherever needed (e.g. when
fatigue is observed), or waiting in a stand-by mode nearby a care
receiver to offer prompt support when and as needed.
By this time, most readers will have realized that these tasks
are much more challenging and difficult than those in alleged
driverless or self-driving cars, drones, or fetch and/or delivery
MSRs.
Major scientific contributions of the JV are in, but not limited
to, these areas:
A multi-modal AI augmented and merged sensor data
analysis/synthesis system that will capture, integrate, process and
abstract:
- Disparate sensor data clouds such as:
- Machine vision integration to interpret visible and non-visible
light,
Range finders
- LIDAR,
Ultrasonic,
Infrared (IR), passive and active
and time-of-flight (TOF) depth cameras (range finders),
Haptic (touch and dead reckoning),
Sound: speech tonality, cadence, etc.,
Odors such as gas, smoke, etc.
Position and orientation
- MEMS accelerometer
Solid state compasses
GPS
Human physiological sensors regarding human state and activity,
- Pulse rate, blood pressure, oxygenation level, blood sugar
level, etc.
in order to quickly detect, recognize and respond to not
uncommon human health states with appropriate, timely
semi-professional level like responses.
The integration of the above paradigms and capabilities within a
context-aware (machine awareness of the human dynamics and state) a
pseudo-cognitive AI robot control architecture, which will
incorporate contextual reasoning and planning regarding assistive
robot actions and behavior, guiding the robot mechanism to deliver
near optimal responses and to provide cost effective proactive,
situation-adapted assistance, without necessitating immediate human
personal intervention, to the care receiver is of significant
benefit to millions of people. Obviously, implicit safety for all
participants and users of such advanced machine sentience and
autonomy must be ingrained. This is the primary task of the JV:
Safety for human usage in all circumstances, foreseen and
unforeseeable.
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Next week, the CEO will be traveling to Missouri to discuss
licensing and/or a joint venture for use of the CareBot(tm) by a
professional in-home caregiver firm of those needing watching over,
but most often prefer to age in place.
We can only imagine how devastating Hurricane Matthew is to
those in its the path along the SE US coastline. Since our SEC
attorney lives in SE FL, he is very appropriately most concerned
about safe refuge for his family, we will be delayed in achieving
Current Information status as originally planned for this week.
We continue to have numerous ongoing joint venture and/or
licensing discussions with those who share the same interest in
using mobile service robots to help others. I am also pleased that
as the Service Robotics industry begins to offer real products to
eager markets our capabilities are being recognized. We remain
completely committed to providing our 1300+ shareholders the ROI
they deserve. They can continue to be confident that we expect to
be signing numerous multi-million-dollar licensing agreements to
further substantiate and delineate the reality that GeckoSystems
will enjoy additional licensing revenues to further increase
shareholder value," concluded Spencer.
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About GeckoSystems:
GeckoSystems has been developing innovative robotic technologies
for nineteen years. It is CEO Martin Spencer's dream to make
people's lives better through AI robotic technologies.
For example, all of those affiliated with the Company, as do
most Americans, share the abject horror we are all still trying to
process regarding the recent, indoor (and outdoor) mass shooting
and murdering of dozens of innocent victims.
To better manage those 21st century mass shootings, the Company
is offering to prototype and deploy the GeckoNED, a new type of
mobile security robot that is a Non-violent Enforcement Device with
a high level of independent mobile autonomy, sensor rich for
enhanced situational awareness, and ease of complete control under
tele-operation by designated, vetted public safety personnel. The
company is working closely with their recent joint venture with an
advanced AI company in New York City to enable even greater
independence and implicit common sense for more coverage at a lower
cost to public safety organizations such as local police, county
sheriff, state law enforcement organizations and/or the schools
PTA.
The following was written by Spencer shortly after the Sandy
Hook mayhem, but not updated since the Pulse nightclub carnage.
Safety for our children is a moral imperative for all
enlightened civilizations. The present proliferation of lethal
weaponry in the form of readily obtainable semi- and full automatic
pistols and rifles has brought increased child safety to nearly
blinding visibility that requires new thinking and solutions for
this long overdue, poorly addressed need in our culture.
Mobile robots could be the most proximate and final deterrent to
those that would harm our children in public schools and other
venues. GeckoSystems has named the mobile robot concept that would
provide yet another barrier between our children and those immoral
individuals intent on doing them significant harm the GeckoNED.
"NED" stands for Non-violent (or non-lethal) Enforcement
Device.
Fundamentally, the GeckoNED (or "NED") is a new type of mobile
sentry robot that would deter, detect, and contain those that would
violently harm our children in their schools. The NED would be a
new type of school mascot that could be customized by the children,
teachers and staff to be a daily part of their school time lives.
The NED would be able to automatically patrol all wheelchair
accessible areas in any school without human oversight or
intervention using GeckoSystems' proven SafePath mobile robot AI
navigation software.
What does it do? Deters, Detects, and Contains to provide better
Protection-
- Marquee deterrent video and audio surveillance systems with
fully autonomous self-patrolling in loose crowds, etc.
Quick detection using AI augmented sensor fusion systems with fully
autonomous auto-find/seek
Deployable, multiple non-lethal containment systems under direct
human control only
Ready mobile detection, protection and containment systems that are
fully tele-operable remotely
The NED would be a marquee deterrent due to its robust audio and
video surveillance systems employing WiFi LAN data communications
to connect to the school's Internet access. The primary,
high-resolution pan/tilt zoom video camera and professional quality
microphones would be selected such that their features and benefits
are appropriate for the expanses to be "sight and sound" monitored
in the school.
Further enhancing the marquee deterrence, the NED would be
available for direct human tele-operation almost instantly when
direct human control was appropriate and timely due to a clear and
present danger to the children having been identified with a high
level of confidence by the NED's AI enhanced sensor systems. In
addition, cell phone and police band communication capability could
be included using the voice synthesis ability of GeckoChat.
The NED would:
Enable prompt intruder detection using multiple, different
sensor systems (sight, sound and smell) AI fused to produce a one
plus one equals three synergy. This counter-intuitive metaphor
describes a common benefit of GeckoSystems' advanced artificial
intelligence and sensor fusion competencies.
The NED's AI's would sensor fuse:
Augmented Vision
These would include machine
vision, including that visible to the human eye, and that
invisible, such as infra-red (IR) due to body heat, heat from fired
weapons, etc. and AI software
Extended Hearing
Frequency response range widened
beyond human hearing, into the ultrasonic using multiple
microphones (omni directional and directional) and AI software
Enhanced Smell
Odor detection systems for
appropriate gas detection, whether odorless to human sense of smell
or not with intelligent inhalation system and AI software
Singly, and in concert, the preceding systems would detect
unwanted intruders by:
Video surveillance enhanced by AI
object recognition machine vision
In both visible and invisible IR
light spectrums
Audio surveillance enhanced by AI
expert systems
Within and outside human hearing
range, atypical sounds such as
- Gun shots
Breaking glass
Doors being broken down
Students and/or staff stressed voices; screams
Odor and odorless gas
surveillance
Smoke, carbon monoxide, and
natural gas
Potentially odors from:
- Handguns, long guns, rifles
Guns in lockers
Explosives, gun ammunition in lockers
The NED would pre-position ready mobile protection that is fully
tele-operable remotely when atypical situations arise. It would
immediately alert pre-designated parties for human intervention and
direct human control of the NED and its various containment
systems.
- The NED's exterior size would be about thirty (30) inches in
diameter and seventy-two (72) inches tall
- Cannot be readily disabled by small arms fire thus affording
cover for students and staff when the NED places itself between the
intruder and all others.
The NED's shroud could be bulletproof covering using a combination
of Kevlar, ceramic armor, and/or aluminum plates sufficient for
absorbing small arms fire.
Immediate intervention after detection resulting from a top speed,
in obstacle free hallways, of up to 20 mph
- SafePath technologies with obstacle avoidance five to six times
faster than a person preclude NED hitting anything, even when under
teleoperation (direct human) control.
Bull horns, sirens, high power speaker system and/or other sound
projection systems capable of hitting the threshold of pain
The NED would have readily deployed, multiple non-lethal
containment systems solely under the control of a designated,
responsible party such as a "watch commander" at the local police
station.
The non-violent and/or non-lethal containment capabilities would
consist of:
Targeted, high volume water
spray
Sleeping gas with directed
discharge
Irritant sprays, such as pepper
spray, tear gas, etc. with directed discharge
Acoustical stunners, flash-bangs,
"stun bombs"
Targeted net guns, "projectile
nets"
Targeted sticky foam, an
extremely tacky material carried in compressed form with a
propellant
Targeted electrical stunners
(Tasers)
In addition to providing children and staff in schools a higher
level of safety, the school would now have a new kind of school
mascot, a NED. The covering could be painted in school colors, and
designed like the school mascot, if desired. For an example, Huber
U. Hunt Elementary School is a tiger. They could have a tiger
design with verbal UX customized for a pleasing dialect for the
students. The NED's battery recharging pads would be located at
various desirable sentry positions throughout school. Literally the
school's NED would be unique in its use and appearance in every
school.
The GeckoNED would be situationally aware and autonomous to
provide a high level of safety for our school children and other
soft targets, such as movie theatres, night clubs, etc. This is
completely congruent with GeckoSystems strategic focus.
Since literally tens of thousands of public venues deserving of
greater safety with better, more timely surveillance, local schools
and parents will ultimately decide if having a GeckoNED watching
over their children by being able to see and hear what the NED
reveals for only $10-12 per month per protected child would
indicate several thousand NEDs to be sold within only two to three
years. Anticipated MSRP is only $49,950.
The safety requirement for human quick WCET reflex time in all
forms of mobile robots:
In order to understand the importance of GeckoSystems'
breakthrough, proprietary, and exclusive AI software and why
another Japanese robotics company desires a business relationship
with GeckoSystems, its key to acknowledge some basic realities for
all forms of automatic, non-human intervention, vehicular
locomotion and steering.
1. Laws of Physics such as Conservation of Energy, inertia, and
momentum, limit a vehicles ability to stop or maneuver. If, for
instance, a cars braking system design cannot generate enough
friction for a given road surface to stop the car in 100 feet after
brake application, thats a real limitation. If a car cannot corner
at more than .9g due to a combination of suspension design and road
conditions, that, also, is reality. Regardless how talented a
NASCAR driver may be, if his race car is inadequate, hes not going
to win races.
2. At the same time, if a car driver (or pilot) is tired,
drugged, distracted, etc. their reflex time becomes too slow to
react in a timely fashion to unexpected direction changes of moving
obstacles, or the sudden appearance of fixed obstacles. Many car
"accidents" result from drunk driving due to reflex time and/or
judgment impairment. Average reflex time takes between 150 &
300ms. http://tinyurl.com/nsrx75n
3. In robotic systems, "human reflex time" is known as Worst
Case Execution Time (WCET). Historically, in computer systems
engineering, WCET of a computational task is the maximum length of
time the task could take to execute on a specific hardware
platform. In big data, this is the time to load up the data to be
processed, processed, and then outputted into useful distillations,
summaries, or common sense insights. GeckoSystems' basic AI
self-guidance navigation system processes 147 megabytes of data per
second using low cost, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Single Board
Computers (SBC's).
4. Highly trained and skilled jet fighter pilots have a reflex
time (WCET) of less than 120ms. Their "eye to hand" coordination
time is a fundamental criterion for them to be successful jet
fighter pilots. The same holds true for all high performance forms
of transportation that are sufficiently pushing the limits of the
Laws of Physics to require the quickest possible reaction time for
safe human control and/or usage.
5. GeckoSystems' WCET is less than 100ms, or as quick, or
quicker than most gifted jet fighter pilots, NASCAR race car
drivers, etc. while using low cost COTS and SBC's
6. In mobile robotic guidance systems, WCET has 3 fundamental
components.
a. Sufficient Field of View (FOV) with appropriate granularity,
accuracy, and update rate.
b. Rapid processing of that contextual data such that common
sense responses are generated.
c. Timely physical execution of those common sense
responses.
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In order for any companion robot to be utilitarian for family
care, it must be a "three legged milk stool."
(1) Human quick reflex time to avoid moving and/or unmapped
obstacles, (GeckoNav(tm): http://tinyurl.com/le8a39r)
(2) Verbal interaction (GeckoChat(tm): http://tinyurl.com/nnupuw7) with a sense of date and
time (GeckoScheduler(tm): http://tinyurl.com/kojzgbx), and
(3) Ability to automatically find and follow designated parties
(GeckoTrak(tm): http://tinyurl.com/mton9uh) such that verbal
interaction can occur routinely with video and audio monitoring of
the care receiver is uninterrupted.
An earlier third party verification of GeckoSystems AI centric,
human quick sense and avoidance of moving and/or unmapped obstacles
by one of their mobile robots can be viewed here: http://t.co/NqqM22TbKN
An overview of GeckoSystems' progress containing over 700
pictures and 120 videos can be found at http://www.geckosystems.com/timeline/.
These videos illustrate the development of the technology that
makes GeckoSystems a world leader in Service Robotics development.
Early CareBot prototypes were slower and frequently pivoted in
order to avoid a static or dynamic obstacle; later prototypes
avoided obstacles without pivoting. Current CareBots avoid
obstacles with a graceful bicycle smooth motion. The latest videos
also depict the CareBot's ability to automatically go faster or
slower depending on the amount of clutter (number of obstacles)
within its field of view. This is especially important when
avoiding moving obstacles in loose crowd situations like a mall or
an exhibit area.
In addition to the timeline videos, GeckoSystems has numerous
YouTube videos. The most popular of which are the ones showing
room-to-room automatic self-navigation of the CareBot through
narrow doorways and a hallway of an old 1954 home. You will see the
CareBot slow down when going through the doorways because of their
narrow width and then speed up as it goes across the relatively
open kitchen area. There are also videos of the SafePath(tm)
wheelchair, which is a migration of the CareBot AI centric
navigation system to a standard power wheelchair, and recently
developed cost effective depth cameras were used in this recent
configuration. SafePath(tm) navigation is now available to OEM
licensees and these videos show the versatility of GeckoSystems'
fully autonomous navigation solution.
GeckoSystems, Star Wars Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYwQBUXXc3g
The company has successfully completed an Alpha trial of its
CareBot personal assistance robot for the elderly. It was tested in
a home care setting and received enthusiastic support from both
caregivers and care receivers. The company believes that the
CareBot will increase the safety and well being of its elderly
charges while decreasing stress on the caregiver and the
family.
GeckoSystems is preparing for Beta testing of the CareBot prior
to full-scale production and marketing. CareBot has recently
incorporated Microsoft Kinect depth cameras that result in a
significant cost reduction.
Kinect Enabled Personal Robot video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn93BS44Das
Above, the CareBot demonstrates static and dynamic obstacle
avoidance as it backs in and out of a narrow and cluttered alley.
There is no joystick control or programmed path; movements are
smoother that those achieved using a joystick control. GeckoNav
creates three low levels of obstacle avoidance: reactive,
proactive, and contemplative. Subsumptive AI behavior within
GeckoNav enables the CareBot to reach its target destination after
engaging in obstacle avoidance.
More information on the CareBot personal assistance robot:
http://www.geckosystems.com/markets/CareBot.php
GeckoSystems stock is quoted in the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC)
markets under the ticker symbol GOSY. http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/GOSY/quote
GeckoSystems uses http://www.LinkedIn.com as its
primary social media site for investor updates. Here is Spencer's
LinkedIn.com profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/martin-spencer/11/b2a/580
Telephone:
Main number: +1 678-413-9236
Fax: +1 678-413-9247
Website: http://www.geckosystems.com/
Source: GeckoSystems Intl. Corp.
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