The Premier League will meet with American football chiefs today to discuss the use of their artificial intelligence technology in the fight against brain injuries.
The system, currently being developed alongside Amazon Web Services and piloted in the NFL, involves cameras and computers trained to automatically recognise helmet impacts ‘and map to which player they occur’.
It provides a clearer picture of a player’s head contacts, the reduction of which, according to the NFL’s chief medical officer Dr Allen Sills, is the next frontier in the battle to prevent brain injury. The technology is being trialled by a handful of clubs in games and more recently during training, too.