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ModalAI’s VOXL Flight Offers US-Made Option for Small UAS Hardware Architecture

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

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ModalAI has released VOXL Flight, an out-of-the-box platform that integrates autonomy and beyond visual line of sight navigation and communications capabilities for drones. It’s also the first open-development platform for autonomous drone navigation that fuses a companion computer with a PX4 flight controller on a single printed circuit board, reducing weight and size, according to the company. VOXL Flight integrates AI-enabled obstacle avoidance, GPS-denied flight capabilities, deep learning object recognition and depth sensing, and can support up to four image…

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