Blue Sky Bulletin — October 2023

Blue Sky Innovations

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UNC Blue Sky Innovations

2 min readOct 6, 2023

A monthly roundup of things worth sharing…

Written by Anthony DeHart

Innovation in Action: Idea VR showcase with the Charlotte Business Alliance

This month our team traveled to our satellite office space at the Bank of America building in Charlotte to share IdeaVR with the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance.

IdeaVR is our innovative virtual reality DEI experiential learning module. Our immersive, first-person experiences help users develop soft skills like never before.

Check out the IdeaVR Project

Snapshots from the Future: Café ARIA

We’ve put our robotic arm, ARIA, on the most important job in the lab… Making Coffee!

All jokes aside, we’ve been hard at work on some exciting machine learning and robotic vision projects. These technologies enable automation in a variety of different use cases, coffee shops included. We’ve combined all of our AI and robotics expertise into a new startup: Robotic Vision! Robotic Vision is now open and putting our experience to work solving problems for clients across multiple industries.

Learn more about Robotic Vision

See Through ARIA’s “Eyes”

Example of uFactory xArm leveraging computer vision developed in partnership with Robotic Vision and UNC Blue Sky Innovations. This example shows a generally trained model and a custom-trained model.

Tech Talk Spotlight: Neural Radiance Fields

Lab CIO Steven King and Computer Vision Engineer Bhargav converse about how to define neural radiance field (NeRF) technology and why it is important.

Blog Spotlight: From Pixels to Prose: A User-Generated Manual for Generative AI

As you might have already read in our last blog post “A Day in the Life of Chat GPT,” we’ve been experimenting a lot with generative AI. That entire post- photos and all- was entirely generated in ChatGPT.

That’s not to say, however, that it wasn’t hard work to get to that output. Creating high-quality content using Generative AI requires good prompt design and more than a little experimentation. With that in mind, here are some of our favorite tips on how to get the best results.