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#Your DragonXi | Applications

#Vella Development Kit | Velodyne Lidar | High level perception outputs for indoor environments | 3D object list | Free space and obstacle detection | 3D occupancy grid | Lidar odometry | Extrinsic calibration | Automated ground vehicles | Surround Lidar Sensors

#Elroy Air | Autonomous cargo aircraft systems| Vertical take off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft | Specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods | Commercial logistics | Disaster relief | Firefighting | Humanitarian operations | Replacing difficult ground transportation | Detachable pod | Dropping off cargo | Pickkung up ready to go cargo | Makint deliveries fast | Allowing ground crew to empty or load a pod at their leisure

#Ouster | High-resolution lidar sensors for long, mid, and short range applications | Smart infrastructure | Autonomous machines | Robotics applications | Digital lidar architecture | Digital device powered by a fully custom silicon CMOS chip

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#Robotics Engineering | Intelligent Sensing for Object Recognition, Manipulation and Control | Design, Development and Simulation Tools for Robotics Development | Developing Intelligent Robots - Machine Learning on Edge, Cloud and Hybrid Architectures | Advanced Motion Control Solutions for Robotics Systems | Intelligent Vision and Sensing Solutions for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation | Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Functional Requirements, Critical Capabilities

#Gaptek | Modular hangar construction | Lightweight system | Turnkey facilities | Fast deployment | Low environmental impact | Capability to be easily adapted and relocated

#Norway | NATO | Poseidon8 | P8 to bring a drone that can be released from the internal bay, fly its own surveillance missions, then return and be caught back to the bay

#Percepto | Autonomous site inspection and monitoring | Autonomous drones and robots | Insight Manager | Deeplearning algorithms to deliver industry specific intelligence | Solar construction progress monitoring | Stockpile volumetric measurement | Pipeline integrity inspection | 2D mapping | 3D modeling | Automated inspections

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#NATO | Innovation Fund | Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) | Dual use emerging technologies of priority to NATO | Artificial intelligence | Quantum enabled technologies | Autonomy | Biotechnology |Novel materials | Energy | Propulsion | Space

#H3 Dynamics | Distributed hydrogen electric propulsion pods

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing

#Spot robot | Radiation mapping autonomously | Gamma ray sensors | Personal dosimeters | Neutron detection | Alpha inspection with pancake sensors| Ability to withstand large amounts of radiation | Cabability to carry a variety of radiation detection payloads | Ongoing safe operation and eventual decommissioning of nuclear power plants | Machine learning algorithms | AI | Boston Dynamics

#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming | Set and adjust positions and tasks with ease | Drag Teaching | Moving the cobot to any position, and it will memorize it instantly | JAKA APP | Teaching the robot | Remote Monitoring | Monitor robot tasks and set alerts

#SICK | Traffic sensors | Safety radar sensors | Safety light beam sensors | Safety camera sensors | Pattern sensors | Non contact motion sensors | Magnetic cylinder sensors | Luminescence sensors | Inertial sensors | Inductive proximity sensors | Glare sensors | Fork sensors | Fluid sensors | Fiber optic sensors | Distance sensors | Contrast sensors | Color sensors | Capacitive and magnetic proximity sensors | Array sensors

#VARTA | Application Specific Batteries (ASB) | Energy Solutions

#GAM | Robotic and servo gear | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Precision Rack & Pinion | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots

#Case IH | Raven Industries | Autonomous spreader | Guidance and steering, propulsion control | perception | path planning | mobile device managed | mapped field boundaries | advanced cameras and radar system | constantly sensing a 360-degree environment | artificial intelligence | perception controller processes the continuous stream of images | remote operator can view the cameras | obstacle alerted on the mobile device

#Anybotics | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection

#SEA.AI App | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch unsignalled craft, floating obstacles, containers, buoys, inflatables, kayaks and persons over board

#CryovSpain | Liquid Hydrogen for Aeronautical Industry

#SeaRobotics | Unmanned Marine Systems & Engineering | Autonomous Surface Vehicles | Sensor suites

#Universal Scene Description | USD | Metaverse | Digital Twins | Simulating scenes, roads and factories | Autonomous Vehicles | Robots | Large virtual worlds | Pixar | Adobe | Ubisoft | Nvidia

#ROS | Robot Operating System | Open source software development kit for robotics applications | Standard software platform to robotic application developers | Research | Prototyping | Deployment | Production

#US Air Force | Performance.Based Logistics (PBL) | Shifting responsibility for outcomes to suppliers | Lowering overall lifecycle costs | Improving nformation technology systems and data management | Increasing competitiveness in the market | Increased material availability | Decreased logistics response times | Decreased repair turn-around-times

#AF | Enemy Regrouping Surveillance

#Inpixon | Gas Asset Monitoring

#Eptura | Oil Asset Monitoring

#Biz4Intellia | Petrol Asset Monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#Silicon Sensing | Silicon MEMS Gyroscope sensors and modules | Ring technology | High shock and vibration environments

#SpecOps | FINDER | Finding trapped individuals | Microwave radar | Detecting miniscule motions such as heartbeats or respiration | Putting sensor on long rope and dragging it along surface, looking for heartbeats under the snow | Fire and rescue departments

#Celeramotion | Precision Components | Mechatronic Assemblies

#FORT Robotics | Controlling smart machines | Secure communication with machines

#Built Robotics | Transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots

#Bluepoint Robotics | intelligent UV disinfection robots

#Festo | Pneumatic Collaborative Robot Arm

#Ways2H | Waste Biomass into renewable Hydrogen

#SGH2 | Hydrogen produced from Waste

#Horizon | Fuel Cells

#MIT | Autonomous Systems Development Facility (ASDF) | Enabling the development and testing of autonomy algorithms and capabilities | Prototyping and testing of ground-based, aerial, and undersea autonomous systems | Infrared sensors | Integrated motion capture system | Reflective tags on vehicles | Indoor positioning system generating GPS signals | Dry running systems indoors before major outdoor field tests | UAV copter with propeller with low acoustic signature | System for countering unmanned aircraft in urban environment

#Flyability | Drones for industrial inspection and analysis | Confined space inspection | Collision and crash resistant inspection drone | 3D mapping | Volumetric measurement | Inspections of cargo ships, bridges, ports, steel mills cement factories, liquid gas tanks, nuclear facilities, city wide underground sewage systems | Ouster lidar | Elios 3 completed turbine blade inspection in just 27 minutes - it would take over 2 hours with rover and up to 2 days with person | Elios 3 could fly into each of turbine blades without having to reposition it to inspect either side of shear webs | Global Wind Energy Council: over 341,000 wind turbines installed across planet | Wind turbines are very high up in confined spaces | Specialized training required from Global Wind Organization | Inspections for wind turbines are focused on detecting either manufacturing faults or lightning damage | Lightning Protection System may not be properly configured | Destroyed wind turbine blade can cost $1 million to repair | Wind turbines have 3 blades, which need to be individually inspected | When person completes inspection, each blade being inspected needs to be pitched horizontally | I0nspections of entire wind turbine can take 5 to 9 days using persons | Turbine programmed to pitch 2 blades upwards, at positions matching 10 and 2 on clock | Upturned angles important in case problem with drone, it would roll safely back down | Elios 3 flown into each blade | 4K camera to gather visual data and take photos of potential problems as well as suspected lightning damage | FlyAware live LiDAR scan used when drone out of sight | LiDAR point cloud helped pilot determine how far had flown drone into blade | 27 minutes - 3 flights each blade with the Elios 3 | Visual data from Elios 3 showed damage inside blade not visible externally and also not easy to access | Individual blade may take over a day using persons or rovers | Rovers require each blade to be pitched horizontally, like with inspections by people, taking 2 hours per half of the blade (totaling 4 hours per blade)

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Google DeepMind Technologies Limited | Creating advanced AI models and applications | Artificial intelligence systems ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart | Helping robots perform complex tasks that require dexterous movement | Two-armed manipulation tasks | Simulations to improve real-world performance on multi-fingered robotic hand | Helping robots learn from human demonstrations | Translating images to action | High level of dexterity in bi-arm manipulation | Robot has two hands that can be teleoperated for training and data-collection | Allowing robots to learn how to perform new tasks with fewer demonstrations | Collectung demonstration data by remotely operating robot behavior | Applying diffusion method | Predicting robot actions from random noise | Helpung robot learn from data | Collaborating with DemoStart | DemoStart is helping new robots acquire dexterous behaviors in simulation | Google collaborating with Shadow Robot

#Movu Robotics | Robotics | Automated pallet storage solution | Accessible cold storage automation | Temperature-controlled food and pharmaceutical industry | Space optimisation in storage | Streamlined materials handling process | Energy efficiency for cold storage | Robotics for low temperatures with icy and slippery surfaces | Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) | Automating picking | Fleet management software

#Neptune Labs | neptune.ai | Tracking foundation model training | Model training | Reproducing experiments | Rolling back to the last working stage of model | Transferring models across domains and teams | Monitoring parallel training jobs | Tracking jobs operating on different compute clusters | Rapidly identifying and resolving model training issues | Workflow set up to handle the most common model training scenarios | Tool to organize deep learning experiments

#Hengst | Filtration solutions | Ion exchanger for fuel cell | Cathode air filter for fuel cell | Disc separator for hydrogen combustion engine | Active crankcase ventilation for hydrogen combustion engine

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Deutsche Aircraft | Turboprop aircraft | Designed to operate on close to zero emissions | Regional transportation solutions using sustainable means | Modern avionics suite | Superior situational awareness | Multi-role missions | Modular cabin layout | Quick conversion capability | Designed to facilitate quick medical evacuation and assist in aerial firefighting and humanitarian missions | Hot and cold galley | Cabin flexibility with up to 40 seats | Full height cabin | Unpaved runway operation | Maritime surveillance | Search & Rescue | Humanitarian assistance | Air ambulance service | Drug enforcement | Cargo

#Bishop-Wisecarver | 8th Axis vertical extendibility solutions for to increase reach for small robots and cobots | Vertical movement with travel lengths up to 4 meters | Expanding working envelope for large-scale tasks like painting, sandblasting, and pressure washing | Single robot in place of several larger robots | Actuated linear guide system | Rotary motion guides | Rotary actuators | Customized rotary motion solutions to follow virtually any path | DualVee Motion Technology | DualVee-Single-Edge-Track | DualVee-Journals | Guide wheel components | Linear guide wheel | Track lubricator assemblies | HepcoMotion aluminum profile sections | HDRT track systems combine ring segments and straight slides to follow virtually any path | HepcoMotion PRT2 (Precision Ring and Track), DTS (Driven Track System), and HDRT (Heavy Duty Ring and Track) product lines | HDS2 Heavy Duty Slide System | Precision linear guide components utilizing guide wheel and roller wheel technology

#BrainChip | Ultra-low power, fully digital, event- based, brain-inspired AI | Low power acceleration co-processor | Enabling very compact, ultra-low power, portable and intelligent devices | Accelerates limited use case-specific neural network models | SDK for rapidly developing and deploying AI applications for Edge | Support for models created with TensorFlow/Keras and Pytorch | Event-based compute platform ideal for early detection, low-latency solutions | Development contract from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on neuromorphic radar signaling processing technologies | Mapping Complex Sensor Signal Processing Algorithms onto Neuromorphic Chips | Improving cognitive communication capabilities on size, weight and power & cost (SWaP-C) constrained platforms such as military, spacecraft and robotics | Embedding sophisticated radar processing solutions in SWaP-C constrained radar platforms | Low-power, high-performance computing in the most mission-critical use cases | Hardware and AI model using Temporal Enabled Neural Network (TENNs) model

#Weebit Nano | Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology | onsemi signed licensing deal | Treo platform to provide embedded non-volatile memory | ReRAM integration into Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process | Potential alternative to flash memory | Demand for faster, more efficient, and scalable memory solutions increasing | Lower power consumption | Less vulnerable to common hacking tactics | ReRAM can be integrated easily into chip designs without interfering with power analog components

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Robotics & AI Institute | Collaborates with Boston Dynamics | Developed jointly Reinforcement Learning Researcher Kit for Spot quadruped robot | Developing sim-to-real for mobility | Transferring simulation results to real robotic hardware | Bridging sim-to-reality gap | Training policies generating a variety of agile behavior on physical hardware | Trying to achieve novel, robust, and practical locomotion behavior | Improving whole body loco-manipulation | Developing robot capability to manipulate objects and fixtures, such as doors and levers, in conjunction with locomotion significantly enhancing its utility | Exploring new policies to improve robustness in scenarios | Exploring full-body contact strategies | Exploring high-performance, whole-body locomotion and tasks that require full-body contact strategies, such as dynamic running and full-body manipulation of heavy objects, necessitating close coordination between arms and legs | Aiming to utilize reinforcement learning to generate behavior during complex contact events without imposing strict requirements | Develop technology that enables future generations of intelligent machines | Streamlining processes for robots to achieve new skills | Developing perception, situational understanding, reasoning, cognitive functions underpinning robot abilities and combining them with advances in their physical capabilities | Conducting research in four core areas: cognitive AI, athletic AI, organic hardware design, and ethics related to robotics

#UC Berkeley, CA, USA | Professor Trevor Darrell | Advancing machine intelligence | Methods for training vision models | Enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | Approaches to make VLMs smaller and more efficient while retaining accuracy | How LLMs can be used as visual reasoning coordinators, overseeing the use of multiple task-specific models | Utilizing visual intelligence at home while preserving privacy | Focused on advancements in object detection, semantic segmentation and feature extraction techniques | Researched advanced unsupervised learning techniques and adaptive models | Researched cross-modal methods that integrate various data types | Advised SafelyYou, Nexar, SuperAnnotate. Pinterest, Tyzx, IQ Engines, Koozoo, BotSquare/Flutter, MetaMind, Trendage, Center Stage, KiwiBot, WaveOne, DeepScale, Grabango | Co-founder and President of Prompt AI

#Milestone Aviation | AerCap subsidiary | Helicopters from Airbus, Bell, Leonardo, Sikorsky | Mission configuration for oil and gas, search and rescue, emergency medical services, aerial firefighting | Lease agreements with UNI-FLY for three Leonardo AW169 helicopter | Developing S-92A fire fighting capability in collaboration with Helitak | >300 Helicopters | ~50 Customers | ~35 Countries | ~$100M Loan Portfolio

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#Mantle8 | Natural hydrogen exploration using cutting-edge technology | Combining geophysics, geochemistry, and seismic data to locate hydrogen reservoirs | AI-based predictive models, imaging systems for subsurface deposits, and gas composition measurement technologies | Seed funding from Kiko Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe (BEV-E), led by Bill Gates, to scale its operations and run pilot projects | https://mantle8.com/

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#Starlink | Starlink Roam satellite-communications system

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#Optex | LiDAR Perimeter Security | Deploying invisible wall or plane, protecting buildings or assets | Intrusion detection | Accurate outdoor and indoor security sensors with LiDAR technology | Advanced detection capabilities | Long-range customisable detection zones | Enhanced environmental resistance | Creating virtual plane or wall to protect perimeters, buildings, and assets | Analysing size and distance of moving objects | Providing accurate point detection by tracking X & Y coordinates of moving objects | Defining type of intrusion based on object size | Differentiating between people, animals, vehicles, drones and more | Triggering right notifications | Up to 8 detection zones independently configurable allowing for multiple sensitivity scenarios | Integrated camera | -40 using a heated lens | Dynamic event filtering | Detection zone as two parts - judgment and alarm zonen| Intelligent logic to alarm based on detected vehicle size | Customise triggers | Virtual walls and planes | Securing a luxury Villa in Tuscany, Italy | Using sensors capable of creating customisable detection zones within compact footprint, in order to protect narrow and specific areas of the property | 13 REDSCAN mini sensors based on LiDAR technology installed | Seamlessly blending with the villa architecture | Sensors painted in same colour as corresponding walls | HTTP-based network modules

#Bell Flight | Bell 525 | Flexible cabin layouts | Single-engine flyaway capability | Energy Missions | Corporate | Public safety | Troop transport

#Pratt & Whitney Canada | Engines

#Helicopter Investor London | Helicopter finance and transactions event | Helicopter market | The economic life of a helicopter | The economics of tear downs | The hottest helucopter models | Assigning maintenance programmes | Aviation Marketing

#Archer | eVTOL | Powered by 6 independent proprietary battery packs, each supporting a pair of custom electric engines | Fully-electric propulsion | Smaller rotors than helicopters | United Airlines partnership: major strategic partner, investor, operating partner, flagship customer, up to $1.5B order for hundreds of aircraft, several planned routes, including Manhattan - Newark Liberty International Airpor | Stellantis partnership: volume manufacturing | Official Air Taxi Provider of LA28 and Team USA | Santa Monica Airport Vertiport