UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the UKs first and foremost inclusive research and innovation system. They supply government grants to academia via research councils as well as to UK businesses via Innovate UK. The EDGE programme is offered to recipients of government grant funding and offers bespoke support that grows and scales innovative businesses.… Continue reading Innovate UKs EDGE programme highlights dRISK’s Social Distancing Toolbox as a success story

…as a featured technical solution for tackling the impact of Covid-19 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has featured the dRISK social distancing toolbox in their technological solutions pages for tackling the impact of Covid 19. Our work on this de minimis competition repurposed our existing object detection technology from monitoring traffic to monitoring pedestrian activity.… Continue reading UKRI highlights dRISK’s Artificial intelligence tool for social distancing

London, UK, 13th April 2021.dRISK, a London and Pasadena-based startup that has so far been in stealth, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time commercially – employed its edge case retraining tool to achieve a 6x performance in time to detect high-risk events for autonomous vehicles (AVs). Whereas semi-autonomous and… Continue reading dRISK emerges from stealth, breakthrough performance in retraining AVsto detect high risk “edge cases”

Have you ever wondered how autonomous vehicles (AVs) perceive the world around them, and how we can be sure they’ll see and respond to everything humans can. On 31st March 2021, the Department for International Trade sponsored a CoMotion LA event titled ‘Safety Testing for AVs: Dropping a Stock Tesla into Virtual Reality’, during which… Continue reading Safety Testing for AVs: Dropping a Stock Tesla into Virtual Reality

The dRISK CEO Chess Stetson and Business Development manager Rav Babbra, chat to Leon Daniels OBE from ITT Hub about their work with the government-owned Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). We hear how they have been tasked by the UK government, through the CCAV to build the ‘ultimate driving test’ – not for… Continue reading Doing amazing things for autonomous vehicles – ITT Hub Podcast with Leon Daniels OBE

dRISK are delighted to announce that we have been accepted onto the London & Partners Mayor’s International Business Programme, supported by the Mayor of London. The programme helps London-based scaleups, like dRISK expand internationally by providing access to mentorship, expert advice, virtual trade missions, focused e-workshops and events, as well as introductions to potential new… Continue reading Mayor of London’s International Business Programme

At dRISK.ai, we have been monitoring social distancing in real-time throughout the COVID-19 pandemic using CCTV feeds from London, and we have created a web-app available here. We had been tracking vehicle and pedestrian interactions for detecting transportation edge cases, and we repurposed this technology to detect social distancing across London at the start of the… Continue reading Did the reprieve from the November lockdown cancel Christmas?

We have been looking out for new talent to join our team in London all summer and we’re very happy that two highly skilled graduate engineers have now accepted our offer. Hugh Blayney recently completed his MSc in Computer Science at Oxford University with a dissertation on Graph Neural Networks. He is now working on… Continue reading dRISK’s London team is growing and moving to Plexal

dRISK announced today that it closed a $675k funding round. The lead investor is Okapi VC and additional investment came from Netsu Equity, SaaS Ventures and Poetic Partners. We are incredibly proud to have found such competent partners who can also provide valuable technical, operational and legal expertise. Also read: Safety Testing for AVs

A consortium lead by dRISK has been awarded a research and development grant by the UK’s Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles. For this project, dRISK will partner with Claytex, DG Cities and Imperial College to commercialize a ground-breaking vehicle safety framework and AV training, test and validation platform. “To build the city that safely… Continue reading D-RISK consortium wins £3M in grant funding