Protect AI, the protection know-how firm constructing the world’s greatest AI pilot for plane, introduced the official launch of its V-BAT Groups product.
V-BAT Groups allows a number of V-BATs to autonomously execute missions in electronically contested environments whereas studying and reacting to adversaries, the surroundings, and the opposite V-BATs executing the mission. It comes within the type of a modular Nvidia GPU improve operating Hivemind, Protect AI’s AI pilot, which is loaded into the modular payload bay of the V-BAT.
“V-BAT Groups is step one in clever, inexpensive mass not as an idea, however as an operational product. We’re beginning with a crew measurement of 4 V-BATs, however that quantity will double yearly for the foreseeable future. 4 V-BATs that work collectively in digital warfare environments and as a part of a human-machine crew are an unbelievable power multiplier,” commented Brandon Tseng, Protect AI’s co-founder, President, and former Navy SEAL. “Finally, V-BAT Groups – because the crew measurement will increase – give squads the fight energy of a battalion, or battalions the fight energy of a corps or division.”
V-BAT Groups allows warfighters to have 24/7 complete protection over massive geographic areas to seek out, repair, and goal hundreds of enemy property in operational, electronically contested areas at an inexpensive value.
“Clever, swarming plane are the important thing to air dominance and extra importantly, to deterrence. Our nation is confronted with the troublesome actuality that our pilots are too few and the rules-based autonomy options are too dumb for such swarms to exist. Protect AI adjustments this. For nearly 9 years, Protect AI has centered on constructing the world’s greatest AI pilot from a typical AI spine that’s related and deployable to any plane – from quadcopters to F-16s. The know-how is prepared after we want it most. I’m happy to announce that clever groups of V-BATs, powered by Hivemind, could be bought right this moment and shall be on the battlefield in 2024,” mentioned Ryan Tseng, Protect AI’s CEO and co-founder.
Options and Capabilities:
AI and Autonomy Breakthroughs: Powered by Protect AI’s Hivemind AI pilot, V-BAT Groups function autonomously in high-threat environments with out the dependence on GPS or communications.
Scalability: Beginning with smaller formations in 2023, V-BAT Groups can scale to assist lots of and even hundreds of plane in future deployments.
Streamlined System Updates: V-BAT Groups receives quarterly software program updates and biennial autonomy compute payload releases.
Environment friendly Deployment & Administration:
Fast Set up: The V-BAT Groups payload facilitates fast AI pilot installations on V-BATs.
Enhanced Management Methods: The GCS ruggedized cellular management station, tailor-made for managing massive groups of plane, streamlines operations and ensures that commanders have well timed and pertinent mission knowledge.
Timeline:
Protect AI is now accepting orders for V-BAT Groups, with deliveries occurring in 2024. As protection know-how continues to evolve, V-BAT Groups are positioned on the forefront, ushering in a brand new period of aerial autonomy in navy operations.
