银河水滴 is an artificial intelligence company focused on computer vision and video big-data analysis. It holds gait-recognition and visual-inspection technologies. The company aims to deeply integrate AI with industry to provide efficient intelligent solutions. Target sectors listed in the article include smart cities, safe communities, intelligent transportation, smart factories, smart homes, and medical and elderly care. The company recently announced a B+ financing round. The article does not disclose operating metrics or financial terms. Watrix AI develops gait recognition technology that combines computer vision, pattern recognition and video processing to identify people by body shape and walking posture. The company says it is the only firm able to achieve cross-view gait recognition with a 94% accuracy rate. Its solutions target sectors including security, transportation and manufacturing. Watrix AI was founded in 2016 and was incubated by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The startup is led by founder and CEO Huang Yongzhen. Management says recent funding will be used for product and technology R&D, marketing and talent acquisition as it seeks to expand applications and gain a lead in the industrial visual sector.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2018