Kudan Inc. announced that a drone solution provider from US has decided to commercially release its product powered by Kudan's artificial perception technology (KudanSLAM). Details of the product: This customer product is an industrial drone, primarily a large drone for the inspection and management of infrastructure facilities in the oil and gas industry, where Kudan technology will be used for both mapping and autonomous flight functions. The mapping function generates the 3D point clouds required for drone inspections, and normally uses a different technology from the spatial perception technology used for the autonomous flight function, but this case features the same spatial perception technology for both mapping and autonomous flight.

This greatly simplifies the system that would have been required in the case of separate technologies, and maximizes the use of the computational resources expanded by the increased efficiency to significantly improve the performance of both mapping and autonomous flight. The realization of multiple product functions based on a common spatial perception technology can contribute significantly to a radical improvement in product performance and multifunctionality, an innovative advance made possible by the unique versatility of Kudan's artificial perception technology (KudanSLAM). Similar methods have a wide range of potential applications, not only in drone products, but also in inspection and search robots and multifunctional robots and vehicles for both digital twin generation and automated logistics, and Kudan will continue to push for the realization and development of these new solutions with its innovative technologies.

Date of the product release is April-June, 2024 (expected).