ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani family, known as the Mayets, has won the TechnologyAward in the AI World Championship in Santa Clara, USA. The familyparticipated in the junior division of the AI Family Challenge and won theaward for inventing Cavity Crusher. This is a device that uses artificialintelligence to monitor a child’s brushing habits.
The AI championship selected families those families that are usingartificial intelligence to tackle the problems they face in theircommunities. The winning family’s coach, Sana Mehmood was also appreciatedfor making great efforts in training the family.
A total of 140 coaches participated in the competition from around theworld and six teams were selected as finalists in the competition,including teams from Pakistan, Boulivia, Palestine, Spain, the US, andUzbekistan.
Cavity Crusher’s algorithm monitors the time of brushing of a child anduses the data to determine his/her oral health habits. If the child spendsinsufficient time on brushing, the device will then notify the parentsabout it.
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Before building the prototype, the family developed a model which had theability to recognize images of tooth brushing. But the family later decidedto go with the number of data because they thought it could get moreaccurate results.
