XTEND, the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating system, has announced a partnership with edge artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision experts, SightX, which will see the latter’s data processing capabilities further enrich XTEND’s XOS operating system.
SightX is the latest addition to XTEND’s XOS app store, and its software will provide drones, robots, and smart devices on XOS with an advanced multi-object data acquisition engine. Boosting their ability to recognise and track objects, understand scenes, and analyse situations, in real time. The partnership further validates XOS’s promise of keeping humans in the AI-driven loop of autonomous drone operations, by offering effective, practical autonomy that allows them to connect and interact with drones remotely, safely, and intuitively.
Rubi Liani, XTEND’s co-founder and CTO, explains, “XOS enables true human and machine collaboration, on the ground, in any scenario. Scalable and infinitely flexible, XOS makes any drone a software-defined drone, and our app store and open architecture approach means we can continue to expand our operating systems’ capabilities dramatically.”
The XTEND’s XOS app store is open to third-party app developers to publish and deploy their software using XTEND’s software development kit (SDK). The store already includes applications for multiple mission types, including apps that can control a drone’s position and extract data, control payloads – such as robotic claws or advanced gas or cyber detectors, or inspect faulty oil and gas industrial infrastructure. The app store also enables hardware developers to expand the capabilities of their own drones and robots according to their target market.
Alongside XOS, XTEND also provides its own human-guided autonomous drones, robots and smart devices, which enable any operator to perform extremely accurate maneuvers and actions, in any environment, with minimal training. XTEND’s systems are designed as wearable, mobile, lightweight systems with a single-hand, natural hand gestures-based controller.
