UC Advanced - issue #14

Drones They’re going underground, can turn without tilting, and they’re getting their own landing stations. Life for drones navigating complex environments just got easier.

Sky Flight/Hanseo University’s Underground drone continues to operate in areas where there are no GPS signals, can detect obstacles and prevent collisions. Mitigating risks during dangerous tasks and supporting real-time terrain analysis enables rescue operations in “GPS-unavailable” disaster scenarios.

DIC Corporation’s HAGAMOSphere™ is a spherical drone with eight propellers mounted on a cubic frame, allowing it to rotate on the ground and move both horizontally and vertically while maintaining balance. Another way to describe it is an “omnidirectional multicopter”.

Nearthlab’s station for DFR (Drone First Responder) drone base integrates with police operation systems enabling drones to act as reliable, immediate responders in critical situations, extending beyond routine patrols to urgent incident response. The station also addresses battery limits, by extending flight capacity from a limited 30 minutes to uninterrupted missions, ensuring responders are always ready for action.

It’s impossible to ignore NVIDIA NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech largely centred around NVIDIA Cosmos™, and the AI development journey is expressed by Huang as “It started with perception AI — understanding images, words and sounds. Then generative AI — creating text, images and sound,” Huang said. “Now, we’re entering the era of physical AI, AI that can proceed, reason, plan and act.” Fifeteen robotics and automotive companies have already

adopted NVIDIA Cosmos, including Uber. NVIDIA didn’t stop there, also unveiled were the Blackwell RTX 50 Series GPUs and more AI tools for PCs.

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