• Tue. Jan 14th, 2025

Palladyne AI Corp. Awarded Contract from Air Force Research Laboratory to Migrate Palladyne Pilot Autonomous Drone Software to Next-Generation AI Computing Chipsets 

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Jan 14, 2025


Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN and PDYNW) (“Palladyne AI”), a developer of artificial intelligence software for robotic platforms in the commercial and defense sectors, today announced that the Company has been awarded a new contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to migrate the Palladyne Pilot AI software platform (“Pilot”) to next-generation, U.S. made AI computing chipsets. This project will take place over a 26-month period beginning in early 2025.

The Palladyne Pilot software platform is based on the Closed Loop Ubiquitous Tasking and Control of Heterogeneous Exploring Sensors (CLUTCHES) framework, which defines a novel AI structure that combines upstream multi-sensor fusion with adaptive real-time sensor management on individual unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms to facilitate shared situational awareness. Pilot has been designed to enable a network of collaborating unmanned systems and multi-modal sensors that self-orchestrate to provide superior capabilities for applications including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). This real-time sensor management requires a closed-loop system, a key feature of the Pilot platform.

“Our development work with AFRL on the Pilot AI software platform has been critical to evolving the technology to benefit our DoD customers,” said Ben Wolff, CEO, Palladyne AI. “By evolving Pilot to be able to operate on these next-generation AI chipsets, in addition to the AI chipsets from Nvidia and Qualcomm that we are already operating on, we believe we will have the opportunity to deliver the benefits of our enhanced autonomy Pilot platform to the vast majority of small drone platforms that will be deployed in the coming years.”

“Palladyne AI has already made significant progress by porting its Pilot software platform to some of the latest AI chipsets currently available. Initial tests of the Pilot software are demonstrating strong potential to reduce the operational and cognitive burden on the warfighter while substantially improving mission effectiveness,” said Dr. Peter Zulch, AFRL. “We believe that Pilot will offer our Air Force drone operators a powerful tool for improving tactical missions, and by funding the migration of Pilot onto new and emerging AI chipsets we hope to expand the universe of small UAV platforms on which Pilot will be available.”

For more information on Palladyne AI and its artificial intelligence software for robotic platforms, please visit www.palladyneai.com. For more information about AFRL, please visit www.afrl.af.mil. 

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