billvon 2,400 #1 Posted October 30, 2020 Two years ago I left Qualcomm, a company I had first visited in 1992 and joined in 1994. The company had been changing, and R+D was slowly disappearing. I decided to leave in 2019 when the work was drying up. About a year ago I joined a startup that's working on force protection for the military. We've been running silent for a while, supporting the first robot and getting the second one to market. That's now changed, now that Wired has done a story on us. https://www.wired.com/story/shield-ai-quadcopter-military-drone/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gowlerk 1,912 #2 October 30, 2020 Very interesting work going on there. Now I understand where your thinking about distributed AI in autonomous vehicles comes from. The swarm. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #3 October 30, 2020 The article mentions Skydio; Casey Neistat reviewed one of their products 2 weeks ago: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yoink 321 #4 October 30, 2020 7 hours ago, billvon said: Two years ago I left Qualcomm, a company I had first visited in 1992 and joined in 1994. The company had been changing, and R+D was slowly disappearing. I decided to leave in 2019 when the work was drying up. About a year ago I joined a startup that's working on force protection for the military. We've been running silent for a while, supporting the first robot and getting the second one to market. That's now changed, now that Wired has done a story on us. https://www.wired.com/story/shield-ai-quadcopter-military-drone/ Please don't destroy the world. While this year has been bad I could do without 2021 being the rise of the machines sort of thing! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billeisele 122 #5 October 31, 2020 Look forward to reading more. Great work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SethInMI 145 #6 October 31, 2020 15 hours ago, yoink said: rise of the machines i know right? so many dystopian futures have the hovering probe scanning everything looking for the rebellious humans...i can see a cottage industry springing up in war-torn areas for how to dress up to defeat the labelling like wearing a box on your head. and i assume that labelling is where the AI in the name comes in. The SLAM of the building is i suspect done through more conventional techniques. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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