AFWERX Awards ASYLON Contract for Robotic Army Working Canine
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
AFWERX has awarded main robotic safety options supplier ASYLON Inc. a Section I Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis (SBIR) contract to leverage TRL9 industrial DroneDog safety robotic system for the augmentation of Army Working Canine (MWD).
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ASYLON’s DroneDog is a high-endurance, agile, and sturdy quadruped uncrewed floor automobile (Q-UGV) constructed to automate ground-based safety patrols. Using Boston Dynamics’ Spot Ⓡ robotic and ASYLON’s PupPack, DogHouse, and DroneIQ Software program, the system has patrolled over 10,000 miles for industrial purchasers. DroneDog options dwell video monitoring, distant teleoperation, daytime/nighttime cameras, and automatic charging, utilizing superior robotics to make perimeter safety simpler. The AFWERX contract will discover the combination of superior sensor expertise and AI/ML applied sciences onto the present ASYLON DroneDog system to be able to enhance gate guard procedures. A few of these integrations embrace sniffing applied sciences for Explosives & Narcotics, License Plate Recognition Software program, and Facial Recognition.
“This award presents an amazing alternative for Asylon to validate a big downside set with detection canines for each protection and industrial use-cases,” stated Chief Income Officer Michael Quiroga. “If confirmed profitable, these integrations would open a totally new marketplace for our DroneDog system to reinforce detection canine use-cases round Air Pressure Bases and industrial amenities.”
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand new applied sciences.
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