SiMa.ai in Drones

Highest Efficiency.
In-Flight Intelligence.

SiMa.ai enables a new class of intelligent drones with real-time Physical AI — integrating vision, sensor fusion, and multimodal AI into a unified architecture for full end-to-end drone applications.

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Customer and Partner Stories

Applications

Aerospace and Defense

How it works

Physical AI enables real-time perception, reasoning, and autonomous decision-making on device for surveillance, reconnaissance, and mission-critical operations in rugged, hostile, and infrastructure-denied environments.

Benefits

Secure, low-latency intelligence, extended flight time, and reliable autonomous operation – optimized for size, weight, and power (SWaP). Gives drones the ability to fly at speeds over 300 mph.

Agriculture and Environmental Monitoring

How it works

AI on drones analyzes high-resolution imagery on device to assess crop health, detect anomalies, and generate real-time actionable insights.

Benefits

Accelerates decisions, reduces data transfer, and improves crop yield minimizing waste and contamination. Industry’s leading performance per watt efficiency results in longer flight times and better resource management.

Industrial / Infrastructure Inspection

How it works

Drones equipped with on-device AI detect and analyze cracks, corrosion, and equipment faults during flight and send real-time alerts to operators.

Benefits

Detects issues early through predictive maintenance to prevent failures and protect critical infrastructure. High precision and extremely high power efficiency results in longer flight times.

Security and Surveillance

How it works

On-device AI processes optical, thermal, and other video streams along with radar and audio data to detect, classify, and track objects or anomalies in real time.

Benefits

Enables real-time threat detection while preserving privacy and reducing infrastructure costs. High energy efficiency results in longer up time and better surveillance continuity.

Logistics and Autonomous Delivery

How it works

Autonomous drones use real-time perception and decision-making to support route planning, obstacle avoidance, and precise delivery operations.

Benefits

Ensures reliable deliveries through safe, efficient, and fully autonomous operation. Industry’s highest performance per watt efficiency results in longer flight times and heavier payload transport.

Public Safety and Emergency Response

How it works

On-device AI analyzes live video and sensor data to identify people, hazards, and evolving situations in real time.

Benefits

Speeds response and improves safety through real-time situational awareness, with data privacy at the edge. High energy efficiency results in less down time and improved safety.

Use Cases and Demos

Real-world capabilities powered by the Modalix MLSoC.

Voice / Text Prompt

Voice/Text Prompt Scene Analysis

How It Works

LLMs used to convert voice or text prompts into real-time image analysis commands on the edge.

Key Benefits

Natural language querying of live sensor feeds
No cloud round-trip — inference runs fully on-device
Enables mission-adaptive tasking in the field

Why Customers Choose SiMa.ai for Drones

Delivering real-time in-flight intelligence under 10W, the industrial-grade platform optimizes SWaP constraints, ensuring maximum flight time and efficiency for mission-critical edge deployments.

Performance and Reliability

Lowest latency and power consumption. Highest FPS/W, TPS/W, precision. Full multimodal, sensor fusion enablement. Operates reliably from -40°C – 85°C.

Fast Time-to-Market

Easy-to-use design tools with agentic AI framework, Palette Neat. Partner solutions. Chip-Down Design (CDD) support or SoM.

On Device Operation

Delivering Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements on a single chip. 10 year lifetime. No cloud latency, cost, or privacy/security concerns.

Flexibility and Scalability

Customers choose levels of accuracy and resolution. Scales across model families without breaking power budget.

How Modalix MLSoC Enables Drones

The purpose-built Modalix MLSoC integrates seamlessly across every layer of the drone stack — from hardware to high-level applications. We offer multiple form factors and chip-down design support to best address customer needs.

Full Stack Support

Comprehensive drone stack reduces complexity and integration risk. Support from perception to control on a single platform eliminates fragmented systems to improve reliability.

Customer & Partner Applications

Applications

HMI / UX

MAVLink

Micro Services

SiMa.ai APIs

GStreamer

Python

C++

ROS2 Middleware & Nav2

Libraries & Plugins

Depth Estimation

SLAM

Perception Stack

Navigation Stack

VIO

Sensor Fusion & EKF

Core Compute

ML/AI Accelerator

CNN to GenAI

Computer Vision

Multi Media

Video Encode / Decode

Sensors & Control

BSP — Kernel Drivers for Peripherals

OS — Yocto / Debian eLxr Pro®

Hardware

Modalix™ MLSoC

System on Module (SoM)

Industry Leading Performance

333 fps

Stereo Depth Calculation (LightStereo)

425 fps

Feature Point Detector (SuperPoint)

126 fps

Feature Matcher (SuperGlue)

429 fps

Loop Closure (NetVlad)

280 fps

Obstacle Awareness (OamNet)

770 fps

Obstacle Detection / Segmentation (YoloV8)

Systems built to fly with SiMa.ai

Discover partner solutions that combine SiMa.ai’s Physical AI platform with proven drone hardware and integration expertise

Explore multiple Modalix MLSoC form factors for physical AI deployment.

Boards and kits

ARK Jetson carrier boards bundled with a SiMa.ai Modalix MLSoC SoM. Made in USA and NDAA compliant.

Partner solution

Integrated drone solution designed to help OEMs accelerate development and scale production.

Partner solution

Intelligent multi-sensor drone reference design delivering the full stack for drone autonomy requirements.

Partner solution

Mission-Critical Physical AI

Read the definitive guide on how SiMa.ai's Modalix MLSoC is powering the next generation of autonomous drones.

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