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Wednesday 24 December 2025
Memorence AI Advances Instant Learning for Human-Machine Collaboration
As generative AI continues reshaping industries worldwide, enterprises are accelerating adoption across production, inspection, and automation workflows. Yet, as the era of human-machine collaboration and robotics unfolds, traditional AI systems still face two major deployment barriers.The first challenge is the lack of adaptability: when on-site conditions change - such as in visual inspection scenarios where production lines switch tasks, new defect types emerge, or inspection conditions shift - conventional AI models often require days or even weeks of retraining, falling short of real-time operational demands.The second challenge is catastrophic forgetting: when a model learns new information, it often loses accuracy on previously mastered tasks, a long-standing technical hurdle in deep learning.To address these pain points, Memorence AI developed its proprietary instant learning technology, inspired by the mechanisms of the human neocortex. The technology significantly shortens the time needed to adjust AI models while maintaining stability of prior knowledge. This provides a critical foundation for real-world human-machine collaboration. The company has secured invention patents in Taiwan, the United States, Japan, and China, laying the groundwork for its global expansion.Founder and CEO Pai-Heng Hsiao explained that the core principle is designed to support human-inspired capabilities such as perception, association, understanding, reasoning, and memory. For example, when an operator identifies a misjudgment and corrects it, the system can immediately incorporate the new information and apply it to subsequent tasks. This capability delivers rapid feedback and can be extended to support multi-modal knowledge applications.Focusing on Three Application Domains, Gaining Traction Among IPC VendorsMemorence.AI aims to bring AI from the cloud to the front line. Its end-to-end AI solution, Memorence Suite, is designed for large-scale visual inspection tasks and features a no-code architecture, allowing enterprises to deploy AI without relying on in-house engineers. One major industrial customer reduced manual inspection miss rates from 2-4% to below 0.1%, significantly improving quality and operational efficiency.Operagents targets high-variability environments in human–machine collaboration and future robotic systems. Leveraging instant learning, the solution responds quickly to changes in workflow, operating procedures, and recognition conditions. After deployment at a major manufacturer, operators were able to provide corrections that the system rapidly incorporated within a human-in-the-loop workflow, updating guidance instructions in real time, effectively reducing assembly errors and minimizing variation among different personnel.Memoragents provides a multi-modal knowledge query system that enables companies to continuously accumulate and update domain expertise on the shop floor. This allows employees to resolve technical issues quickly while mitigating gaps in institutional knowledge and expertise transfer.Together, the three solutions - from large-scale visual inspection to real-time operational assistance and multi-modal knowledge understanding - form a complete foundation for next-generation human-machine collaboration and robotics applications.Hsiao stated that Memorence AI's instant learning technology and AI solutions form a complementary advantage with the hardware offerings of IPC vendors. Customers can integrate IPC systems with Memorence AI products to enhance the applicability and competitiveness of their overall solutions. In 2025, the company partnered with a leading IPC manufacturer to participate in a major European trade show, leaving a strong impression on local industry players and laying a solid foundation for its market expansion in Europe.Advancing Toward CES2026 and Accelerating Global ExpansionWith support from Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA), Memorence AI is set to participate in CES2026 and has been named a CES Innovation Awards 2026 Honoree. Given the United States' strong foundation in advanced manufacturing, precision manufacturing, and large-scale automation - coupled with the rapid growth of human-machine collaboration, robotics, and the stringent quality and process requirements in aerospace and other high-spec sectors - Memorence AI will showcase the instant learning capabilities of Operagents in operational guidance and quality assurance applications. The company will also demonstrate its multimodal visual-and-text knowledge base solutions, enabling enterprises to continuously update professional knowledge and workflow procedures directly on-site.Hsiao noted that Taiwan's government has significantly increased support for startups in recent years, providing strong momentum for industry-wide development. He expressed deep appreciation for TTA's long-term assistance, particularly the opportunity to join the CES delegation, which has not only boosted Memorence AI's global visibility but also strengthened its confidence in expanding its international presence. Moving forward, Memorence AI will continue to advance AI and instant learning technologies, expand into additional modalities and interactive capabilities, and support global partners as they embrace a new era of human-machine collaboration and robotics-driven applications.Operagents offers operational guidance and adapts via instant learning with human oversight.Credit: TTA
Wednesday 24 December 2025
InnoPad Taipei to debut in 2026 as Taipei's flagship hub for global startups
The Taipei City Government is rolling out a new phase of its innovation strategy. To advance the "Three Arrows for Startups" policy and strengthen the city's competitiveness within the global innovation ecosystem, the "InnoPad Taipei," located in Nangang and spanning approximately 5,300 square meters, has completed preliminary planning and is scheduled to officially launch in mid-2026. The hub will serve as the first landing point for international startups establishing operations in Taiwan.Nangang: a convergence hub for startups, building a cross-domain innovation networkIn recent years, Nangang has rapidly evolved into a major innovation and technology hub in Taipei. With its strategic three-rail transit convergence and proximity to high-tech industry clusters - including Neihu Technology Park, Nangang Software Park, and the Taipei Bioinnovation Park - as well as Nangang Exhibition Center, the district has become a concentrated center for leading enterprises and talent. Recognizing this locational advantage, the city has positioned InnoPad Taipei as a nexus where enterprises, accelerators, investors, and domestic and international startups converge, fostering an ecosystem for cross-regional and cross-disciplinary innovation collaboration. The hub connects Taipei's complete entrepreneurial resource chain - including incubators, corporate partners, international accelerators, and local startup communities - to build a comprehensive one-stop international landing service system. This will help startups rapidly access local resources, expand business opportunities, and strengthen engagement and collaboration within the global ecosystem.Three core functional zones: meeting diverse startup needsThe hub's interior is organised around three major functional zones tailored to the needs of startups at different stages: Co-working Area: Flexible workspace for early-stage teams seeking quick landing and agile operations.Independent Office Zone: Suitable for growing teams that requires stable, dedicated office space.Meeting and Co-creation Spaces: Supporting corporate partnership discussions, Demo Days, medium to large-scale events, and cross-domain exchanges.What makes the hub even more attractive is that teams signing a one-year contract will receive complimentary company registration services, significantly lowering administrative barriers to entrepreneurship. International teams with a clear landing plan can also apply directly for residency and receive hands-on consulting support.Building a city-level accelerator network, connecting corporate needs and global marketsThe hub will host a network of startup accelerators, including general-purpose and corporate accelerators, offering services such as entrepreneurial mentorship, fundraising consulting, technology integration, corporate partnerships, and international market expansion pathways. Together, these will form a complete "startup growth acceleration chain."The city government emphasized that related strategies will be coordinated across departments and continuously adjusted to ensure the hub remains aligned with global innovation trends over the long term.More than a building - a growth engine for Taipei's startup ecosystemThe Taipei City Government stresses that the hub's core value goes far beyond providing office space. Its mission is to build a long-term, sustainable innovation ecosystem.The hub will: Provide comprehensive one-stop landing services, regularly host international startup showcases, organize cross-border matchmaking events and Demo Days, offer corporate networking sessions, entrepreneurship courses, and strategy workshops, and bring together global entrepreneurs, legal entities, incubators, and investors.Through these initiatives, the hub aims to attract more international teams to establish operations, collaborate, and invest in Taipei - further elevating the city's visibility on the global innovation map.Taipei's next leap: becoming a global entrepreneur-friendly cityThe city government stated that "InnoPad Taipei" represents a significant milestone in advancing Taipei's innovation and technology policies. The city is committed to creating an open, welcoming, and competitive startup ecosystem and will continue to promote international collaboration, helping more entrepreneurs realize their dreams in Taipei and expand globally, ultimately establishing Taipei as a truly global entrepreneur-friendly city.
Tuesday 23 December 2025
IntoPIX Delivers Real-Time, Low-Power Video Technologies At CES 2026
As devices evolve toward 4K, 8K, multi-camera sensing, immersive displays, autonomous perception, and AI-driven vision, uncompressed video has become increasingly difficult to move, store, or process efficiently. At CES 2026, intoPIX will present new advancements in real-time, low-power image processing and video compression, offering manufacturers a powerful alternative that maintains uncompressed image quality while drastically reducing bandwidth, latency, power, and system cost.This year's participation also marks a milestone for intoPIX, as the company celebrates 20 years of innovation and was honored with a prestigious Emmy Award recognizing its contribution to the JPEG XS standard - a technology showcased prominently at the show.Located at Venetian Expo Booth #50752, intoPIX will demonstrate its latest implementations of JPEG XS, TicoXS FIP, and TicoRAW. These technologies behave unlike traditional codecs and enable uncompressed image quality that is ideal for high-end capture, automotive perception, gaming, wireless displays, and AR/VR. They deliver sub-millisecond latency thanks to line-based processing, making them perfectly suited for real-time interaction and safety-critical systems. They also achieve massive bandwidth reduction, enabling simpler connectivity, lighter architectures, and reduced memory load. With low power consumption, they are key for mobile devices, wearables, cameras, and edge systems. Finally, ISO-standard JPEG XS interoperability provides a reliable foundation for scalable products.These capabilities allow manufacturers to design devices that are faster, cooler, lighter, and more cost-effective, while delivering an instant "wow factor" in image quality.Solutions for tomorrow's most demanding applicationCameras and sensors benefit from precise, low-latency streams that preserve every detail for human and machine vision. Automotive and ADAS systems gain ultra-efficient bandwidth usage and real-time multi-camera data processing for faster, safer autonomous decisions. Wireless displays, AR/VR, and gaming achieve seamless responsiveness, premium resolution, and freedom from cables or heavy bandwidth. Cloud processing and storage workflows become scalable with significant data and cost savings.Meet INTOPIX At CES 2026The intoPIX team will provide hands-on demonstrations throughout the show and will be available to discuss how these technologies can be integrated into next-generation devices, platforms, and workflows. Attendees are invited to experience how intoPIX enables uncompressed performance without uncompressed constraints at Booth #50752 (Venetian Expo, Halls A-D). Book a meeting or learn more at intoPIX.