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#DragonXi | Applications

#Silicon Sensing | Silicon MEMS Gyroscope sensors and modules | Inertial measurement sensors and systems | Bias instability | Angle random walk | Hazardous terrains | Most extreme conditions

#GelSight | Artificial intelligence (AI) powered 3D sensor

#Viasat | Secure defense communication system

#SICK | Sensors

#Moduler Makina | Remote controlled battery electric platform

#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles

#DTN | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

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

#Terma | Missionized Gun Pods for fighters

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#Flow Robotics | Pipetting robot

#Cognex | Machine vision systems | Sensors | Barcode readers

#OpenAI | Whisper | Open source deep learning model for speech recognition | Transcribing audio in several languages | Automatic speech recognition (ASR) without the privacy concerns | Content creating | Adding AI to everyday workflows

#Universal Robots | Collaborative robots

#Precise Automation | Industrial collaborative robots, motion control

#Percepto | Autonomous drones and robots

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System

#Titra | Alpin unmanned helicopter

#Harmonic Drive | Precision servo actuators | Gearheads | Gear component sets

#Ouster | High Resolution Digital Lidar Sensor

#Blue Robotics | Automated Guided Vehicle

#GAM | Robotic and servo gear

#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming

#Yanmar | Autonomous spraying robot

#Argo | Improving float lifetimes

#Boston Dynamics | Spot robot | Gamma ray sensors | Thermal Inspection | Gauge Reading | Acoustic Imaging | Mission and action parameters editing later, without needing to re-record mission | Pre-configured light patterns and tones alerting workers robot is performing actions in the area | Emergency Stop | Slippery Floor Enhancements | Moving Object Detection

#Microchip Technology | Tactile Twist on Modern Touch Displays

#Gaptek | Modular hangar construction

#Baykar |Bayraktar TB2 UAV | Baykar Mobile Ground Control Station | NATO ACE III shelter standards | Mobile GCS

#Sea Machines | Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Identification System

#Waypoint Robotics | Autonomous mobile robot

#Carbon Robotics | Autonomous LaserWeeder Robot

#Naio Technologies | Agricultural robotics solutions

#Boston Dynamics | Firefighting robot

#Industrial Omron | Sensing and control technology

#ECA GROUP | Robotics | Automated Systems

#VARTA | Application Specific Batteries

#Carling Technologies | electronic switching

#Catepillar | Cat Command for Excavating

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#NTservice | Automatic drone detection and avoidance systems | EDM4S SkyWiper | Portable electronic warfare anti drone device

#Drone detection system | Drone detection

#Aviant | End-to-end drone services for transport of cargo

#FarmFleet | Drone-based solution for the application of pesticides and fertilizers

#Aero Asset | Helicopters

#Airbus Helicopters | Helicopters

#Leonardo Helicopters | Helicopters

#Bell Flight | Helicopters

#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

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

#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

#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)

#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

#Genetec | Security Center Platform | Ouster Gemini integrated | Fusing lidar and video surveillance into a single interface | Unifying customer data from lidar, cameras and radar | Physical intrusion detection in real-time | Using 3D data to power automated detection, classification, tracking, and monitoring | Measuring the distance, trajectory or speed of people or vehicles | Quickly identifying and responding to real threats with confidence | Reducing false alarms

#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

#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

#Siller Helicopters | Specializes in heavy-lift helicopter operations, including firefighting, logging, hydroseeding, power grid expansions | Fleet includes Sikorsky S-64 Skycranes and S-61 Sea Kings

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

#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

#Starlink | Starlink Roam satellite-communications system

#Safety Services Management | Confined space services

#Creation World Safety | Confined space rescue

#Morris P. Hebert, Inc | Confined space inspections with UAV

#BrainChip | Licenses AI accelerator hardware designs combined with state-of-the-art development tools and advanced neural network models | Bringing on device intelligence to any chip design | Processor IP uses sparsity to focus on the most important data, inherently avoiding unnecessary computation and saving energy at every step | State-space model architecture tracks events over time instead of sampling at fixed intervals, skipping periods of no change to save energy and memory | Edge AI audio processing | Enablinging real-time video and image processing directly on-device | Processing data from sensors like accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, radar, and environmental monitors directly on-device | Continuous health tracking that fits Into small wearables | In cabin sensor-based occupant detection system | No unending cloud fees | Support real-time streaming data | Keeps working, even without a network connection | Data stays on device, not in cloud | No transmissionsvmeans less risk of interception | Akida Development Environment (MetaTF) machine learning framework | Processor IP simulator | Python API for neural networks | Conversion Tool (cnn2snn) to convert models to a binary format for model execution on an Akida platform | PCIe Development Board featuring AKD1000 neuromorphic processor in standard PCIe form factor | Akida AKD1000 card features built in capabilities to execute networks without host CPU | BrainChip and VVDN created Akida Edge AI Box for applications such as video analytics, face recognition, and object detection | Event-based neural processor | Models include audio denoising, automatic speech recognition, and language models | Building edge hardware systems that can execute LLMs to provide domain-specific intelligent assistance at the Edge | Building models using an extremely compact LLM topology | Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs) based on state-space models combined with pre-processing information in a RAG system | Stand-alone, battery-powered AI assistant that covers huge amount of information

#AST SpaceMobile, Inc (NASDAQ: ASTS) | Building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network directly by everyday smartphones | Designed for both commercial and government applications | Fully-funded plan to deploy 45 to 60 satellites into orbit by 2026 to support continuous service in the US, Europe, Japan, and other strategic markets, including U.S. Government | Have six satellites, five fully operational and one test satellite, for both commercial and government applications | Have completed the assembly of microns for phased arrays of eight Block 2 BlueBird satellites | Targeting to complete 40 satellites equivalent of microns by early 2026 to support full voice, data, and video space-based cellular broadband services | Announced L/S-Band spectrum access | Path for premium spectrum on global basis | Technology backed by over 3,700 patent and patent pending claims to support up to 120 Mbps peak data rates per cell globally | Demonstrated first tactical non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity over standard mobile devices, with participation from multiple branches of U.S. armed forces under previously announced contract with Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) | Over $1.5 billion in balance sheet cash

#Red Mountain Mining | Gold and Critical Minerals exploration and development | Antimony | Critical mineral | America First strategy | Antimony is used in tungsten steel and hardening lead bullets | Antimony strategic uses: Night vision goggles, lasers, radars and photovoltaic solar cells | China turned off the taps to the US and EU | Prices bagging to ~US$60,000/t | This environment Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX) has waded | Antimony mining district of Utah | Trigg Minerals (ASX:TMG) Antimony Canyon project | Desktop study assessing available magnetic and topographic data will be reviewed initially, and augmented if necessary by high resolution drone magnetics and surface reconnaissance mapping, which may be able to confirm the locations of subcropping structures | Ground electromagnetics | Shallow trenching | RAB drilling | Yellow Pine project | Perpetua Resources | Rare earths miner MP Materials and copper explorer Trilogy Metals direct investments from DoD | Department of War.has grown more aggressive in its efforts to brand critical minerals as national security assets | Pentagon delivering a US$245m contract for smelter owner US Antimony Corp to help build a defence stockpile.| US Export-Import Bank is expected to deliver a ~US$2bn loan for the Stibnite project | Federal cash flows for antimony players | US Bureau of Land Management

#Export-Import Bank of the United States | The official export credit agency of the United States | Supporting American job creation, prosperity and security through exporting | Issuing letters of interest for over $2.2 billion in financing for critical mineral projects | Supply Chain Resiliency Initiative (SCRI) to help secure supply chains of critical minerals and rare earth elements for U.S. businesses | Maintaining access to critical materials to secure U.S. jobs in sectors like battery, automobile, and semiconductor manufacturing | SCRI provides financing for international projects with signed long-term off-take contracts with U.S. companies, providing these U.S. companies with access to critical minerals from partner countries | SCRI: EXIM financing is tied to import authority and the financed amount depends on the amount of the off-take contract between the foreign project and the U.S. importer | Off-take agreements ensure that EXIM financing for critical minerals projects benefits American companies and workers | For U.S. domestic production in critical minerals and rare earth elements, EXIM can provide financing through Make More in America Initiative (MMIA) | SCRI: project must have signed off-take contracts that will result in the critical minerals and rare earth elements output being utilized in the United States, for products that are manufactured in the United States