Artificial Intelligence - From research to application

Working towards a better society

We are working on AI applications to realise the following goals:

• Personalised health: artificial intelligence will give us personalised health advice on how to prevent and cure lifestyle related diseases.
• Predictive maintenance: using AI we can make predictions for effective planning and for the optimisation of operations and maintenance. We do this in the energy, construction and industrial sectors.
• Data-driven policy: AI will help us make the right decisions in public policy and services with data-driven insights.
• Cyber security: AI will help us improve cyber security, by detecting or predicting fraud, threats and actual attacks.
• Autonomous vehicles and systems: AI-enabled autonomous vehicles and systems will support or even replace humans in critical, dangerous and complex situations.
• Smart Industry: AI helps to digitalize the industry and facilitates an optimal work balance between humans and machines.

Tackling AI challenges to accelerate innovation

At TNO we address the key challenges that prevent real-world applications of AI. We co-invest 80 million euros over 5 years in re-usable generic methodologies, techniques and tooling. Our 150 researchers (including 10 AI professors), work together with universities and international research organisations from a wide range of backgrounds. The key challenges we address include:

• Complying with privacy and ethics in AI
• Learning from small datasets
• Data security and sharing
• Human-machine teaming
• Providing transparent AI

Artificial Intelligence has the potential of making our society smart and even wise. But trusted and responsible application strongly rests on public-private partnerships. TNO connects people and knowledge in AI, join us!

Joint innovation is an absolute must

We put AI to work in the real world. AI applications require large-scale data sharing and a combination of extensive domain knowledge with highly multidisciplinary expertise. Value creation with AI transcends organisational boundaries. It changes interactions and business models for public and private stakeholders. That’s why we believe that joint innovation is a key element of AI’s application. We have therefore set up Appl.AI: our initiative to stimulate AI innovation by bringing governments, companies and researchers together in joint innovation projects. We also build on TNO’s long track record of innovation.

Our mission: strengthen industry and society

The mission of Appl.AI is to strengthen the competitiveness of industry and overcome societal challenges. Orchestrating innovation in public-private partnerships is one of our strengths. This is why we are teaming up with new partners, investing in new AI techniques and deploying these techniques in a range of applications. Our approach is people-centric, developing AI solutions in a controllable, explainable and responsible manner. We also create the right legal and ethical frameworks, so that AI can truly contribute to the improvement of our society and economy.

Working with TNO

TNO is leading projects and innovation programmes in a responsible manner. If you are interested in realizing the potential of AI, you can contact us. Together we can experiment with new AI applications, either in single projects or in joined innovation programmes.