From ‘Digital Drug Dogs’ to ‘Electronic Tongues’… AI Expands Across the Five Senses

 AI Recognizes and Processes Five Senses Information in Real Time… Promotes Industrial Site Safety and Efficiency

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology expands into the sensory domain, an era has begun where AI can replicate human senses. AI is now being applied to industries such as manufacturing, robotics, and education by recognizing and processing sensory information including sight, hearing, and smell.

According to the IT industry on the 22nd, AI has been shown to increase work efficiency and safety by collecting and analyzing data based on the five senses, such as sight, hearing, and smell. Currently, AI start-ups and universities in Korea are developing AI-based sensory technologies and applying them at industrial sites.

Vision AI has advanced beyond manufacturing and robotics into distribution, sports, agriculture, livestock, and industrial safety. SuperbAI is supporting the development of Vision AI models through the Superb Platform, which automates the entire process. By using Generative AI-based data synthesis, high-quality training data can be secured with limited datasets. 

In distribution, Vision AI enables market share analysis and customized marketing through in-store customer behavior pattern analysis or automatic product recognition. In sports, it automatically analyzes player movements for individual and team evaluation. In agriculture and livestock, it boosts productivity by analyzing crop growth conditions and livestock biometric data.

Hearing AI is being developed to convert speech into text and analyze specific sounds. Through its AI interview solution Monster, Muhayu has implemented voice-based interview automation. Dipley detects specific sounds such as screams or mechanical noises with Listen AI, identifying dangerous situations at industrial sites in real time. Selvas AI supplies voice recognition solutions for the National Police Agency’s investigation system and applies AI to the automation of hospital medical records.

In the olfactory field, Ilias AI has developed an AI-based “digital drug dog” that analyzes chemical compositions in the air. This device can detect drugs non-invasively at airports or ports, significantly increasing operational efficiency. Healthcare startup Encer is also commercializing a technology that predicts the risk of dementia by using AI to analyze near-infrared signals related to olfactory stimuli.

Although the taste field is still in its infancy, research on “electronic tongues” is actively underway. Research teams in the U.S. and China are developing technologies to reproduce taste in virtual reality by analyzing chemical components, and the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has unveiled an AI-based electronic tongue capable of classifying wine.

An official from a start-up noted, “The era has arrived where AI supplements human limitations by simulating or replacing the functions of the five senses. AI solutions tailored to each sensory area will play a key role in more industries in the future.”

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