GE Working on Robot That It Says Can Save $200 Billion of Power

  • Artificial intelligence to make power grids more efficient
  • General Electric currently filing patents on the technology

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General Electric Co. is working on a way to use artificial intelligence in electricity grids, a technology that it expects will save $200 billion globally by improving efficiency.

“We’re also putting a lot into the machine learning side, a lot,” said Steven Martin, chief digital officer at GE’s energy connections business, at an interview at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit in London. “We have a lot of people working on this.”