100+ advanced developments in AI on show at Belarus’ Academy of Sciences

A large-scale exhibition as part of the Artificial Intelligence in Belarus forum has opened today at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Belarus, with more than 60 organisations from all over the country presenting their latest developments in the field of AI and robotics

As is traditional, the United Institute of Informatics Problems of Belarus’ NAS is one of the organisers of the exhibition. Its Director General Sergei Kruglikov noted that AI is gradually penetrating into all spheres of life of society and the state, “The forum is being held for the third time. The main task that we set is not to repeat. We want to give as many developers as possible a chance to demonstrate their projects, to give them an opportunity to be noticed by potential customers. Projects for all spheres are currently presented at the exhibition: from agriculture to space.”

According to Mr. Kruglikov, some of the developments have already been implemented in certain industries.

“We’re starting developments in the field of precision agriculture. For the first time, the Agronomist to Themself app – developed by our scientists – is on show at the exhibition. That is, we have maps of fields and chemical compositions of soils, enabling us to recommend the optimal place for planting each specific crop,” the scientist explained.

Alongside projects in the field of intelligent agriculture, the exhibition presents the latest developments in AI and robotics, medicine and bioinformatics, speech technologies and supercomputers, etc. In total, there are more than 100 advanced developments in the field of AI.

Answering a question of how science and production manage to go hand in hand, the Director General of the United Institute of Informatics Problems explained, “We reach out to potential customers of our developments and offer them to test new tools. They try and make sure that with the help of our technologies it is possible to organise the production process more efficiently. This is how enterprises have the need and desire to implement our developments at their factory. Medicine is a vivid example. Doctors were given a chance to try electronic systems, and almost immediately their implementation began everywhere, because the management of health institutions saw the potential.”