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Researchers in Japan have developed an odor-detecting drone that uses antennae taken from insects.
The “insect drone” can autonomously find its way to the source of an odor.
The researchers hope that by expanding the range of the drone’s odor detection, and ultimately enabling it to detect the scent of humans, the device can be a useful tool for search and rescue missions at disaster sites.
— Read more in Odor-detecting drone uses moth antennae at Star Advertiser.
Tom Ford Beauty’s most recent fragrance launch, Bois Pacifique, was notable for several reasons, but perhaps chief among them was the way artificial intelligence was used in its development. A digital “odour value map” was used to blend ingredients in line with a brief, marking the first time parent company Estée Lauder has gone all in on an AI-influenced formula.
— Read more in Perfume with perfumers: Is AI a threat to the human nose? at Vogue Business.
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Sending people to check out disaster zones is always a risk, so what if a robot equipped with an electronic nose, or e-nose, could track down a hazard by “smelling” for it?
This concept motivated a recent study in Science Advances, in which researchers built an e-nose that can not only detect odors at the same speed as a mouse’s olfactory system, but also distinguish between odors by the specific patterns they produce over time when interacting with the e-nose’s sensor.
— Read more in New "E-nose" Samples Odors 60 Times Per Second at IEEE Spectrum.
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“We’ve known that smell contains information we can use to detect disease,” he says. “But computers can’t speak that language and can’t interpret that data yet.”
While that’s his long-term goal for the company, in the near term he wants Osmo to make safer, more sustainable aroma molecules for fragrances in everyday products like perfume, shampoo, insect repellant and laundry detergent.
— Alex Wiltschko, CEO and co-founder of AI startup Osmo, on why it is important to teach computers to smell. Read more in Led by a former Google researcher, this company wants to give computers a sense of smell—here’s how it works at CNBC.
“Usually, the available palette [the ingredients that perfumers work from to formulate a fragrance] of a perfumer is between 1,000 to 2,000,” explains [Calice] Becker. With the ability to “think” of nearly 5,000 ingredients from around the world — from Haitian vetiver to Laotian benzoin — Carto’s knowledge is five times more than what a human perfumer could even fathom. Using Carto’s visual “Odour Value Map,” perfumers can blueprint innovative combinations and instantly transform them into fragrance samples with the help of a robot.
— Read more in The ChatGPT of Fragrance Has Arrived at Allure.