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RBR50 Spotlight – ModalAI’s VOXL CAM Perception Engine

The functional capacities of ModalAI’s VOXL CAM solution are impressive – powerful compute, imaging and navigation – particularly given its small size.

RBR50 Spotlight – ModalAI’s VOXL CAM Perception Engine

By RBR Staff | April 26, 2022


ModalAI’s VOXL CAM Perception Engine Functionally Impressive, Provides Developers with Options for Ongoing Innovation

Organization: ModalAI
Country: USA
Website: https://modalai.com
Year Founded: 2018
Number of Employees: 1-50
Innovation Class: Technology, Services & Research Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Product Introduction


The functional capacities of ModalAI’s VOXL CAM solution are impressive – powerful compute, imaging and navigation – particularly given its small size.


Description:
In November 2021, ModalAI, a Qualcomm spin out, released the VOXL CAM perception engine, a credit card sized, pluggable, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that provides robotics systems, drones and IoT devices with GPS-denied navigation, indoor and outdoor depth mapping, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), object detection and avoidance, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight control and cellular connectivity. The VOXL CAM incorporates Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 821 chipset and ModalAI’s Flight Core, a PX4 drone flight controller.

 

Analysis:
The functional capacities of ModalAI’s VOXL CAM solution are impressive – powerful compute, imaging and navigation – particularly give its small size. The base VOXL CAM weighs just 57.5 grams, 87 grams with the flight controller and modem installed. To emphasize the point, ModalAI released a second product with the VOXL Cam, namely the Seeker, a micro-development drone capable of both indoor and outdoor autonomous navigation.

 

ModalAI’s VOXL CAM and Seeker drone, along with the company’s VOXL Flight computing platform and controller for drones (released in 2020), provides developers of drone-based solutions with a range of powerful technical enablers for drone (and robotics) applications, many of which are sure to be for indoor operations. This range of solutions provides engineers with many design and development options, a necessary requirement for ongoing innovation. – Dan Kara
ModalAI’s VOXL CAM

 


2022_RBR50_Download_CoverWTWH Media’s Robotics Group is pleased to showcase the 2022 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award honorees – see table below.

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2022 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Honorees

OrganizationLocationInnovation TypeInnovation Subclass
3MUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
ACEINNAUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
AevaUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
ApellixUSAApplications & MarketsUtilities
ARM InstituteUSABusiness & ManagementSocial Good
AvularNetherlandsTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Berkshire GreyUSAApplications & MarketsLogistics
Boston DynamicsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
cellumationGermanyTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Cleo RoboticsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Corvus Robotics USATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
CRG AutomationUSAApplications & MarketsDefense
CruiseUSAApplications & MarketsTransportation
DorabotUSAApplications & MarketsLogistics
FlexQubeSwedenTechnology & ServicesTechnology & Services Innovation
ForwardX RoboticsChinaApplications & MarketsManufacturing
FoxgloveUSATechnology & ServicesServices Introduction
GrayMatterUSAApplications & MarketsProduct Introduction
Grey Orange and Tompkins RoboticsUSAApplications & MarketsLogistics
GUSSUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Hai RoboticsChinaApplications & MarketsLogistics
ifm efectorUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Indoor RoboticsIsraelTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Indy Autonomous ChallengeUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
InsightTRACUSAApplications & MarketsAgriculture
John DeereUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Labrador SystemsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
LibiaoChinaTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
MassRoboticsUSABusiness & ManagementMarket Engagement
ModalAIUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
NVIDIAUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
OnRobot DenmarkTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
OutsightFranceTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
NASA / JPLUSAApplications & MarketsAerospace
Pharm RoboticsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
RGo RoboticsIsraelTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Ready RoboticsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
SaviokeUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Seoul RoboticsSouth KoreaTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
Smith+NephewUKBusiness & ManagementMarket Engagement
Swiss-MileSwitzerlandTechnology & ServicesPrimary or Applied Research
Tangram VisionUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
TDK InvenSenseUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
TerraClearUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
ToposensGermanyTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
ULC TechnologiesUSATechnology & ServicesUtilities
VerizonUSABusiness & ManagementLeadership
Virginia TechUSATechnology & ServicesPrimary or Applied Research
Vissavi.techPolandTechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction
XACT RoboticsUSATechnology & ServicesProduct Introduction

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