by Angela Guess

A recent press release reports, “PIQ, a leading French start-up in sports wearables today unveiled a breakthrough innovation with the introduction of a genuine Artificial Intelligence interface dedicated to sports activities. After 2 years of R&D and €13m investments, PIQ’s 50 engineers developed a revolutionary technology, protected by 10 international patents allowing to identify athletes’ Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. From a world where connected sports were limited to the capture of basic data, PIQ’s two cutting edge innovations are opening new horizons to the Sport Wearables industry: (1) GAIA an autonomous system which – for the very first time in the world – understands and analyzes sport movements. (2) PIQ ROBOTTM – the ultra-high performance sensor.”

The release goes on, “The combination of GAIA and PIQ ROBOTTM enables athletes to identify their Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. GAIA – GAIA is the first Artificial Intelligence system that autonomously understands sports movement. GAIA is capable of breaking down and analyze sports movements via specific motion-capture algorithms. Over the 2 years of R&D, GAIA has analyzed thousands of athletes and millions of movements growing its own automatic learning curve further expanding its intelligence day after day. This multi-algorithmic machine-learning intelligence is a result of both fundamental and applied research introducing the capacity to understand and analyze microscopic variations in sport movements.”

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