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#Unmanned System | Development

#Synthetic data generation | Computer simulation | Algorithm | Statistical modeling | Autonomous vehicles | Information injected into AI models | Creating digital twins | Testing AI systems for bias | Simulating the future, alternate futures or the metaverse | Datagen | MostlyAI | Synthesis AI

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing

#Orbital Corporation (ASX:OEC) | Design, Development, Verification, Validation of the principal engine development | Singapore customer | Multi fuel UAV engine | Heavy fuel | Deployment of systems operating within the UAS space | Manufactured in Australia

#Increasing Competitiveness for American Drones Act | Integration of UAS or drones into the National Airspace System (NAS) | FAA BVLOS Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) | UAS certification unit | Expanding scope of FAA UAS test site program

#Percepto | Infrastructure and assets inspection with drones

#ChcNav | Object Analysis | Object Detection | Autonomous Vehicle

#ELS | Halo | Unlimited range connectivity for any drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) | DroneUp | SpeedBird Aero | MissionGo | Israeli defence force

#SoftBank | Drone base stations for mobile phones

#Carbon Robotics | Autonomous LaserWeeder Robot | Deep Learning | Laser | Lidar Sensor | Nvidia | Cumming

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

#Autodesk 3ds Max | Autodesk

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

#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

#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

#Boston Dynamics | Firefighting robot | Spot | Robot dog | New York City Fire Department | FDNY | Search and rescue missions | Measuring the concentration of gases and chemicals | Chemical attack | Natural disaster | Industrial accidents

#NVIDIA | MLPerf | Measuring time to train neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentatione | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning | NVIDIA benchmarking suite | MLPerf Training | MLPerf Inference | MLPerf HPC | NVIDIA Platform

#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

#Sonex Aerospace | Teros | Customized UAS

#Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation | Teros UAS | Unmanned aircraft systems development and flight services | UAV Ground Control Stations | Advanced acoustics development | Persistent surveillance systems | Air vehicle technology |Airborne systems | Secure communications | Systems integration

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#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

#Structural color | Chameleon like, color shifting materials | Stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message | Checking an arm band color to gauge muscle mass | Sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as one does laps | Elastic materials that when stretched can transform their color | Printed films revealing the imprint of objects | Structural color arising as a consequence of a material microscopic structure | Robotic skin that has a human like sense of touch | Devices for things like virtual augmented reality or medical training | University of Cambridge | The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at the Brigham | Women Hospital | National Science Foundation | MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation | Samsung | MIT ME MathWorks seed fund | MIT

#ECA Group | Unmanned Vessels | Croatia

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board

#Optimax Systems | Robot polishing platform | Optics prototypes | PickNik | Robot Operating System (ROS) | ABB robot arm | ROS 2 Control library | ABB StateMachine | ABB

#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

#Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit | NVIDIA | 275 Trillion Operations per Second (TOPS) | Multiple concurrent AI inference pipelines | High speed interface support for multiple sensors

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

#ArcticHubs | Unmanned Forestry Machine (UFM) | Lulea University of Technology | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | 3D stereo cameras | Regular RGB cameras | Lidar sensors | GNSS sensor

#NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS) Initiative | Open Ocean Robotics | Idemia Identity and Security | Naval Armaments Cooperation at the U.S. Mission to NATO | Maritime Unmanned Systems Innovation & Coordination Cell (MUSIC2) | Institute for Security Science Technology at Imperial College, London | DARPA | SparkCognition | SkyGrid | Boeing | Planck Aerosystems

#Fortum | Renewing the value chain for electric vehicle and industrial use batteries | Recycling and second life solutions for Lithium Ion batteries

#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

#MassRobotics | Ori | Ikea | Boston Seaport District | Amazon | Google | Mitsubishi Electric | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT | Cybernetix Ventures

#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

#AiFi | Autonomous retail | Cashierless AI powered retail solution | AiFi app | Computer vision | AI learning about scenarios | Simulated environments to train the AI algorithms and the models | Calibration algorithms allowing to recreate the shopping environment in 3D | Cameras tracking customers throughout their shopping journey

#Boston Dynamics AI Institute | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Robotics | Intelligent machines | Cognitive AI | Athletic AI | Organic hardware design

#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

#NVIDIA | Mission Client | Isaac ROS GitHub | ROS 2 Humble | Nav2 navigation stack | OTTO Motors | InOrbit | VDA5050 Connector | MQTT | OASIS standard messaging protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) applications | Open Robotics

#Titra | Alpin unmanned helicopter | In regional priority investment list of Ankara | Military, civilian and rescue missions | Design based on the manned Italian Heli-Sport CH 7 ultralight chopper | UAVOS | Length 7 m | Width 1.5 m | Height 2.35 m | Rotor diameter 6.28 m | Empty weight 340 kg | Can be easily transported in a vehicle | Maximum payload of 200 kg including fuel | Wideband satellite communication channel | Fully redundant autopilot system aboard | Fully autonomous take off and landing system | Remote ground control network capability | Autorotation landing capability | High efficiency flight control | Hyper spectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Electro optical/infrared (EO/IR) cameras | Rotax 914 UL engine | 115 hp | Maximum cruise speed 160 km/h | Maximum range of 840 km | Altitudes of up to 5,000 m | Maximum endurance seven hours | Two hours flight time fully loaded

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

#MIT | White graphene nanotubes | Stronger, heat resistant composites | Membranes for renewable energy | Hollow aligned fibers, or nanotubes, made from hexagonal boron nitride | Hexagonal boron nitride ( hBN) | Fabricating aligned boron nitride nanotubes in bulk | hBN is transparent and electrically insulating | hBN to electrically insulate sensors within electronic devices | Blue energy, electricity produced from the ionic filtering of salt water into fresh water | Nanotube engineering | Hypersonic and space applications

#Catepillar | Cat Command for Excavating | Remote control system | Cat Command station | Non line of sight remote control | Improving machine productivity | Fast restart of operations | Virtual cab with familiar controls and machine displays | Up to five different machines controlled by one user | Access to machine setting just like in the machine | Solution to workforce shortages | Training advantages for newer operators | Opportunities to those with physical limitations | Attracts a new generation of workers | Increases the longevity of experienced operators

#SatixFy | Developing Communication Payloads for Satellite and Pseudo Satellite Service | Payload solutions based on high efficiency Electronically Steered Multi-Beam Antenna technology | Modular array can scale to support small to large arrays and one to many simultaneous data service beams per array | A single antenna can illuminate multiple simultaneous beams in the coverage area | Payload may include several antenna arrays

#EpiSci | Tactical AI | Autonomous decision-making capability for tactical systems combining Adaptive Autonomous Rule based Learning (A2RL) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) | Cognitive Radios and Networks (CRNs) | Unmanned Teaming Autonomy

#Exosonic | Supersonic UAV| Aerial target | Collaborative combat aircraft applications

#Sedef Shipyard | Research and Development (R&D) | Aircraft carrier with UAVs | Developing automated systems in shipbuilding | Develop models and softwares for sector

#General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) UAE | UAE registered 894 Organisation/Operators (Professional use) and around 21,321 registered unmanned aircraft for leisure (hobby) with the GCAA by the end of Q1 2023

#Boeing Australia | MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone

#Canadian Technology Systems (CTS) | Disrupter Technology

#ESAero | Manufacturing, integration, & testing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in California

#BRAVE1 | Toloka family of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) | Toloka underwater drones

#Sabrewing Aircraft Company | Unmanned heavy-lift commercial cargo air vehicles | Dragonworks Lab | Hayward, California airport | Lab facilities in Mountain View, California | Aircraft design, engineering, computer aided design (CAD) | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) | Preliminary 3D printed components in Mountain View laboratory

#GlobalData | Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) | Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) | Enhancing survivability | Increasing efficiency | Reducing long-term costs for naval operations

#SYPAQ | CORVO | C5ISREW domain | Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) projects | Integration of COTS/MOTS systems | Design integrity throughout the lifecycle of the system | Accredited Engineering Management System (SEMS) | Additional certification requirements: environmental, security and information assurance conformance | Software-centric projects | Collaboration and research partnerships | Turn-key operational capability | Ensuring regulatory approval through SYPAQ purpose-built Defence Autonomy Centre of Excellence

#UAS Detection and Mitigation Systems Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) | Detection and mitigation of UAS, without causing adverse impact to the NAS | Counter UAS activities (C-UAS) | Training and other costs of autonomous aviation have come down | Demand for low-altitude countermeasures has gone up

#TEI | 172-horsepower PD170 | Bayraktar TB3, a short-runway-capable drone designed for deployment on aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships | Wingspan of 14 meters | Length of 8.35 meters | Maximum takeoff weight of 1,450kg | Payload capacity of 280kg | Maritime domain

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Immervision | CNN-based 2D object detectors for drone navigation

#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#Titomic | Titomic Kinetic Fusion Additive Manufacturing (TKF AM) systems | Integrating cold spray technologies, software and robotics into existing systems | Proprietary manufacturing cell | Manufacturing prototypes on a small scale | Cold spray powders | Rapid repairs | Metal coatings without heat | Build and incorporate electronic sensors directly into parts | Industry 4.0 platform | Linux NAS server

#IDS | Industrial image processing | 3D cameras | Digital twins can distinguish color | Higher reproducible Z-accuracy | Stereo cameras: 240 mm, 455 mm | RGB sensor | Distinguishing colored objects | Improved pattern contrast on objects at long distances | Z accuracy: 0.1 mm at 1 m object distance | SDK | AI based image processing web service | AI based image analysis

#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

#Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) | Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) | Prototyping High Bay | Littoral High Bay | Desert High Bay | Tropical High Bay

#SiLC | ULR Eyeonic Vision System | Vision detection for ranges from 500 meters to beyond 1km | Industry leading angular resolution, range and velocity precision

#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

#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

#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

#Canon | Micro stepping motors ranging from Φ 5 mm to 6 mm | DC micro motors with gears, pinions, encoders, and lead wires already attached | Brushless servomotors | Ultra sonic piezo motor | Frameless motors | Optoelectronic Components | 3D Machine Vision System

#Mecademic Robotics | Six-axis industrial robot arm | Robot arms built entirely from aluminum | Control by Python | SCARA robot achieves position repeatability of 0.005 mm, enabling to automate even the most intricate tasks and elevate product quality | Montreal | Canada | Maxon micromotors | Microautomation solutions | Microautomation cell | Automated medical device assembly process

#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