Palladyne AI teams with Orkid Tech to integrate UAV autonomy software
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) and Orkid Tech announced plans to integrate Palladyne Pilot and SwarmOS autonomy software with Orkid’s fixed-wing UAV platform for U.S. Department of War and industrial commercial markets.
Agreement marks Palladyne AI’s first fixed-wing UAV partnership, pairing Orkid Tech’s fielded, NDAA-compliant UAVs with Palladyne AI’s Pilot and SwarmOS software Palladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN ), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace engineering services, and Orkid Tech, a developer of long-range, NDAA-compliant vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), today announced a collaboration to integrate its Palladyne Pilot and SwarmOS autonomy software with Orkid’s fixed-wing UAV platform.
The companies intend to develop integrated drone systems for the U.S.
Department of War and commercial industrial markets, including oil & gas, power, wildfire management, and public safety, extending Palladyne AI’s Pilot and SwarmOS platform into a new class of aircraft and adding a fixed-wing growth vector to its addressable market.