Feb 01, 2022
Posted by: Chad Sweet
VIO
SLAM, short for Simultaneous Location and Mapping, is the foundation of a self-navigating system and provides the framework within the robot can path plan. Learn how ModalAI uses Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) to support localization capabilities in its SLAM implementation and Voxels for the mapping elements.
Nov 29, 2021
Posted by: Lauren Young
In his new blog, Vinny Kemler, Director of Hardware Engineering at ModalAI, recounts the team's early development of the first Snapdragon-based flight controller, the Qualcomm Snapdragon Cargo, and how it has evolved over 5 generations into the 5G and AI-enabled, Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform.
Bulky "Frankenstein" drones and robots are a thing of the past with the all new VOXL CAM perception engine. VOXL CAM condenses seven PCBs and four concurrent image sensors into one small unit that can be easily mountable on any drone, robot, wearable IoT device, or stationary mount to enable autonomy and perception.