XTEND Partners with SightX on XOS, the Human-Guided Autonomous Operating System

XTEND Partners with Edge AI and Computer Vision Expert SightX

XTEND allows human operators to interact with drones and robots in a new way – guiding flight with hand gestures.  XTEND’s XOS is human guided operating system that could completely change the way drones are operated.

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

Today, autonomous operating system developer XTEND announced a partnership with edge AI and computer vision expert SightX. This partnership will see SightX’s data processing capabilities benefit XTEND’s XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating system reinventing the way humans interact with drones, robots, and smart devices.

SightX is the most recent addition to XTEND’s XOS app store. Its revolutionary software will grant drones, robots, and smart devices on XOS an advanced multi-object data acquisition engine, greatly enhancing their ability to recognise and track objects, understand scenes, and analyze situations in real time. This new partnership fits with XOS’s mission statement of involving humans in the process of autonomous drone operations, providing effective autonomy that enables them to interface with drones remotely, safely, and intuitively.

“XOS enables true human and machine collaboration, on the ground, in any scenario,” said XTEND co-founder and CTO Rubi Liani. “Scalable and infinitely flexible, XOS makes any drone a software defined drone, and our app store and open architecture approach means we can continue to expand our operating systems’ capabilities dramatically. SightX’s technology has become a key component of our AI application layer, alongside our own proprietary technology and other third-party applications. In fact, our collaboration with SightX is already helping several tier-1 global customers enhance their drone operations today.”

Third-party app developers are free to publish their software on the XOS app store using XTEND’s software development kit (SDK). The store currently features applications for a variety of mission types, including apps which are able to control a drone’s position and extract data, control payloads, or inspect faulty oil and gas industrial infrastructure. In addition, the app store allows hardware developers to expand the capabilities of their own devices according to their target market. By offering an easily deployable OS for third-party drones or robots, XTEND lets any device connect to XOS and join its growing ecosystem.

“As a software company, we understand the value of partnering with best-in class technology providers, like SightX, to boost our hardware agnostic operating system’s ability to control our own or third-party drones, robots, and smart devices,” added Liani. “That is why we believe that XOS will become the operating system of choice for anyone who is looking to maximize the potential of their drones and robotic systems, while decreasing the risks posed to their teams’ lives, or concerns around lack of human oversight.”

In addition to XOS, XTEND offers intuitive human-guided autonomous drones, robots and smart devices, letting operators carry out extremely accurate maneuvers in any environment with minimal training. XTEND’s wearable, mobile, lightweight systems are controlled with a single hand, natural hand gestures-based controller.

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Ian attended Dominican University of California, where he received a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and a keen interest in technology, he is now contributing to DroneLife as a staff writer.