5 AI/ML Projects Unveiled at Standford’s Hackathon 2024 That Will Blow Your Mind!
Stanford just hosted a hackathon known as TreeHacks.
It is Stanford’s premier hackathon with over 1000 students from around the world came to build for 36 hours straight. The country’s brightest engineering students are flown to Stanford’s campus
to build solutions to the world’s largest challenges for 36 hours straight.
The reward? $100k+ in prizes. Here are the winners and their projects at TreeHacks ‘24:
1. Baymax :
Robot arm controlled by natural language and speech to provide medicine to the elderly/physically disabled. Every single robot control, including inverse kinematics, coded from scratch.
Grand prize winner- $10,000
Elderly citizens award- Free trip to Japan
Grand prize winner- $10,000
Elderly citizens award- Free trip to Japan
2. Recollect:
Automatic OCR scanning + page turning machine to digitize books and print media
3. Good Samaritan:
Combining Apple Vision Pro with machine learning to help first responders administer first aid.
4/ Smart bike lock:
RFID bike lock jerry-rigged together with 9 volt batteries, electrical tape, a 3d printed chassis, and an arruino.
5. Synthesis:
NLP data pipeline + classifier and LLM summarization tool to collate news from biased sources and distill truthful information Basically, Ground app, but AI.
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I’ll see you in the next one ;)
