Canada’s Independent Robotics Wins NATO Hackathon

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
participation of more than 60 companies globally, with the aim of accelerating the development and adoption of innovative defence
technologies
Challenges presented during the event were drawn from those faced daily in war zones such as Ukraine.The hackathon rewarded 10 companies for
their proposed technological solutions in areas including AI, acoustic sensors, robotics and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
impressed the panel with its AI-based data processing technology called AISRA
AISRA features advanced AI that understands video, sonar, and thermal imaging, and can automatically scan and analyze vast amounts of
footage to identify objects of interest based on just a few samples
Given just a single image of a new type of armored vehicle, for example, it can rapidly detect the whereabouts of that vehicle in videos
technology originally developed for civilian inspection applications in land, air and underwater environments
and prioritizing potholes for repair, drastically reducing what would normally take months of manual analysis.The Insight Engine uses the
latest innovations in AI and robotics to process and understand vast amounts of data, much in the same way that ChatGPT can help people
summarize large amounts of text
Today, robots are improving the processes for inspections of critical infrastructure such as runways or solar power arrays, allowing surveys
to be conducted more economically, safely, and frequently
Taking advantage of this information, however, leads to a dramatic increase in the amount of data that humans need to process
understanding in situations flooded with data
AI-powered underwater robots (uncrewed underwater vehicles)
for maintenance or invasive species.More recently, the company joined forces with Lone Drone Solutions, a Canadian company that is applying