Auterion has developed a new onboard AI Node for drones and other mobile robots that adds supercomputer performance to the company's Skynode avionics and connectivity platform. AI Node is equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, the world's smallest AI supercomputer for embedded and edge systems, which enables the direct processing of high bandwidth sensor data for better decision-making during operations. Compute-heavy AI and ML algorithms for object recognition, tracking and counting can be used, on mission, in advanced applications for public safety, security, and wildlife conservation, and across industry use cases. Immediate development and prototyping – Teams can plug and play with a wide range of interfaces to connect various payloads and sensors. By flexibly integrating into customer ecosystems and running Auterion OS with established developer workloads, users can easily develop applications on AI Node.

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