BrainChild Innovation

BrainChild Innovation designs AI software and the hardware to run it, aimed at enterprises and operators of critical infrastructure. Founded in Oakland, California, in 2016 around mixed reality and AI, it now works from San Jose. Its core platform uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect infrastructure, and earlier work included a model for inspecting wind turbines.

Products and services

• Visual infrastructure inspection: an AI platform using anomaly detection for non-destructive testing of critical assets.
• AI workstations: custom hardware configured for machine learning training and inference.
• Generative AI models: ready-made and custom models for content generation and automation.
• Cloud and edge integration: deployments on AWS, Google Cloud and IBM Watson.
• Robotics and IoT: combining robots, sensors and AI inference for physical environments.
• Mixed and augmented reality: enterprise AR and VR apps for training, inspection and operations.

Who it serves

Enterprises and owners of critical infrastructure; past projects covered autonomous aerial, ground and marine vehicles and smart city systems.

Key facts

• Based in: San Jose, California
• Founded: 2016, in Oakland
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Watson