Drone AI

SkyWatch, a “data analysis, risk-assessment and active risk-reduction platform for the drone industry,” has introduced $2 million in a Seed spherical. The funding comes from F2 Capital, Verizon Ventures and Kaedan Capital with “participation of former senior insurance executives from companies like Axa and Liberty Mutual, and world-class leaders in …

NVIDIA’s Redtail drone group: Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Alexey Kamenev, Jeffrey Smith NVIDIA researchers have launched expertise that may “enable  developers to create autonomous drones that can navigate complex, unmapped places without GPS,” says the corporate. “One of the challenges that many companies have encountered is in flying in environments that are …

Photo courtesy Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems Software big Microsoft has partnered with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) to check Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise in a Microsoft sailplane. The 16 ½ -foot, 12 ½- pound sailplane used AI …