XTEND – the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous working system that’s revolutionizing the best way people work together with drones, robots, and good units, has introduced a multi-layered partnership with ModalAI, Inc., the main Blue UAS Framework producer of autonomous drone and robotics expertise. The partnership will see XTEND make out there their award-winning XOS working system on ModalAI’s expertise, and XTEND’s vary of revolutionary human-guided autonomous drones develop into tightly fused with ModalAI’s trade main VOXL® 2 Autonomous AI Autopilot, supercharging each units of customers’ potential to finish superior robotics missions efficiently.
Scalable and infinitely versatile, XTEND’s Working System (XOS) gives customers with an simply deployable working system for his or her drones or robots. Giving any machine the power to hook up with and profit from the extraordinary capabilities of XOS’s rising software ecosystem to allow true human and machine collaboration, on the bottom, in any situation. XTEND’s XOS app retailer is open to third-party app builders and allows customers to run third occasion purposes on their units, together with purposes for a number of mission sorts, together with apps that may management a drone’s place and extract knowledge, management payloads – equivalent to robotic claws or superior fuel or cyber detectors, or examine defective oil and fuel industrial infrastructure.
Rubi Liani, XTEND’s co-founder and CTO, explains: “XOS is operational throughout the World and allows anybody to simply join and work together with drones and robotics units remotely, with out the necessity for prior information or coaching. Permitting operators to maneuver, see, work together with units exactly, intuitively, and immersively. We imagine that XOS will develop into the working system of alternative for anybody who’s seeking to maximize the potential of their drones and robotic methods, whereas lowering the dangers posed to their groups’ lives, or issues round lack of human oversight.
“Not solely does our partnership with ModalAI supercharge the capabilities of their drone and robotics {hardware}; however our personal vary of revolutionary human-guided autonomous drones will now profit from the extraordinary capabilities of ModalAI’s Subsequent Technology VOXL® 2 Autonomous AI Autopilot. We envision a really fruitful collaboration with ModalAI and see them as an ideal companion, as we lengthen operations into public security, safety, inspection, and different civilian markets.”
VOXL 2 is ModalAI’s subsequent era Blue UAS Framework autopilot, powered by the Qualcomm QRB5165 processor. At solely 16g, VOXL® 2 condenses autonomous capabilities from an onboard companion laptop, PX4 flight controller and superior AI as much as 15+ TOPS. VOXL® 2 was crafted to chop autonomous UAV improvement time by greater than half. As a single board AI autopilot with pre-integrated flight {hardware} and software program, VOXL® 2 allows builders to speed up the R&D part of the product improvement journey, and start creating their very own bespoke UAVs. VOXL® 2 will enhance the capabilities of XTEND’s vary of absolutely NDAA compliant, human-guided autonomous drones, together with its XTENDER, Wolverine and Griffon drones.
“We’re very excited that XTEND has chosen VOXL® 2 to energy their fleet of autonomous drones,” mentioned Chad Candy, CEO and co-founder of ModalAI, “VOXL® 2 was created to scale back UAV developer’s time to market, so we’re thrilled about XTEND’s progress in launching VOXL® 2-powered drones. The influence of autonomous ISR is rising each day, and we will’t wait to see how XTEND’s XOS and drone fleet will modernise mission crucial purposes.” Each corporations are a part of the Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) Blue UAS Framework, which accelerates business expertise with the goal of offering trusted, superior capabilities to UAV drone customers.
