The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – AEye AI Booth Interview at CES Show 2023

Episode Date: January 6, 2023

AEye AI Booth Interview at CES Show 2023 Aeye.ai

You wanted the best. You've got the best podcast, the hottest podcast in the world. The Chris Voss Show, the preeminent podcast with guests so smart you may experience serious brain bleed. The CEOs, authors, thought leaders, visionaries, and motivators. Get ready. Get ready. Strap yourself in. Keep your hands, arms, and legs inside the vehicle at all times, because you're about to go on a monster education rollercoaster with your brain. Now, here's your host, Chris Voss. Hi, this is Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. We're in the West Hall at AI, is that how it's named? 3429 booth, and we're here talking with Matt.

Matt, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you doing, Chris? There you go. It's good to have you, Matt. Give us your title and what you do at AI. Sure. I'm Senior Director of ITS and Smart Cities.

I head up initiatives that are related to safer mobility. There you go. So what are you guys doing at CES 2023? We have a lot going on. LIDAR is an exciting technology, and we didn't just want to talk about it, so we set up some really great immersive demonstrations and equipment here. For instance, we have LIDAR set up where we're looking at the general area, and we're extracting data. Wow. We're extracting data from the LIDAR. And, for example, you see how many people have passed through this area

since the beginning of the show, 11,072. It's counted, all those people? All those people are counted. Wow. And those people have averaged 1.23 meters between each other. So is that safe for COVID what's that yeah technically maybe not quite as much yeah and and we even know their average height 1.6 meters oh really that's crazy yeah wow and you track all that in real time now who are the consumers of this who are the people

you're uh here trying to meet and get to know your product? Well, it really varies because we get into so many different applications, so many different use cases from autonomy to connected vehicles to aerospace and defense. My world happens to be ITS, intelligent transportation systems, and smart cities. So it's really a variety of folks that are responsible for sensors that go on vehicles or interacting with sensors on vehicles, but also sensors and technology that go on to smart infrastructure as well, including at intersections.

Wow. Yeah, it's a wide variety. So does it make cities safer? What's the intent of it all? Yeah, it absolutely does make cities safer? What's the intent of it all? Yeah, it absolutely does make cities safer. As a matter of fact, we really look at our technology, LIDAR, as being a key piece of the solution that increases safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers, as well as making traffic more efficient, helping drivers feel safer because of the advanced driver assistance systems that they have on their vehicles.

Yes. Awesome stuff. Awesome stuff. This is pretty cool. And it's actually tracking live data right now at intersections at CES, or the booth, I guess. Yeah, that's correct. So this is the booth right here that we see behind us.

Yeah, that's right. And it's just tracking all these people down and away you go. And then everyone's those little green globules, I guess. Well, yeah, that's correct. What we're seeing there is actually a software interpretation of what the LiDAR is seeing. The LiDAR puts out something called a point cloud, which is basically how it sees the world, and then that is actually, I like to say, distilled by what's called perception software,

which creates the data, the data you see up on that screen. And what, depending on the use case, right, it could be actually any myriad types of data that people are looking for. This is awesome.

I thought that was my aura. That was the aura. We can go with that. Anything more we need to know? Well, I think that it's critical. We did a survey recently that gauged consumers' attitudes toward what they would like to see, how they look at technology, making them safer on the roads, what they would like to see addressed in their communities, and there was a lot of interesting data. What I really

liked about it is that it did affirm that consumers really accept and appreciate the technology that's going into advanced driver assistance systems. They appreciate the technology that's going on at intersections, and they want their cities, their communities to do more of that. And what was nice is it really validated what we're doing as a company and what our technology brings to the table. Awesome, Soss. Well this is pretty awesome. Give us a dot-com where can people look it up on the interwebs. Yeah, www.AEYE as my shirt says, dot AI. There, www.aey.ai. There you go.

And that's where you'll see the information related to all the applications we get into. There you go. Come down and see it, guys. West Hall at the booth. 3429. 3429. There you go. Check it out, guys.

They've got a big thing going on here. You can see all the stuff they've got. There's even the IndyCar over there in the back. But check it out.