BrainChip Boosts Space Heritage with Launch of Akida into Low Earth Orbit
05 March 2024 - 10:02AM
Business Wire
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the
world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully
digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI, today saw its Akida™ AI
technology launched into low earth orbit aboard the Optimus-1
spacecraft built by the Space Machines Company. The successful
launch is another milestone for BrainChip’s innovative AI
acceleration solution in the burgeoning SpaceTech industry, which
needs advanced learning and decision-making processes in
challenging space conditions.
Akida is built into the ANT61 Brain™ computer, which serves as
the primary intelligent control for a series of repair and
maintenance robots that will be used to remotely repair damaged
space vehicles. This autonomy demands high-performance AI
computation under severe energy, power, and thermal constraints.
This makes it an application for Akida’s event-based, neuromorphic
architecture that can deliver the necessary high performance with
extremely low power operation. Additionally, Akida's unique on-chip
learning also enables the ANT61 Brain to learn and adapt, which is
critical in constrained space environments where variables are
constantly changing.
“We’ve teamed up with BrainChip to create autonomous
infrastructure maintenance robots that leverage an AI-driven
‘Brain’ to perform complex repair tasks in the unforgiving vacuum
of space,” said Mikhail Asavkin, CEO, and founder of ANT61. “This
launch is an important milestone towards that goal. We plan to
start operating the world’s first neuromorphic space-grade computer
in two months after the launch.”
Mark Ramsey, COO of the Space Machines Company, added, “Space is
a tough and unforgiving environment and needs innovative
technologies like BrainChip’s Akida and ANT61's Brain to deliver
efficient processing and remote learning to adapt to ever-changing
environments and mission-critical situations. These innovations can
ultimately support Space Machines Company's vision to provide
roadside assistance in orbit.”
With the success of the launch behind it, the ANT61 Brain will
begin operation in the coming months with plans to refine its
robot’s vision system, training with a video directly from the
satellite’s cameras. The ANT61 Brain utilizes the AKD1000 of
BrainChip’s first-generation Akida technology.
“This has been a great collaborative learning experience with
ANT61, and we congratulate them along with Space Machines Company
and others involved with the Optimus-1 launch on a phenomenal
achievement,” said Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip. “As a company that
is cultivating a heritage of empowering highly efficient,
intelligent sensing and inference devices, we are excited to add
space heritage with this launch, but we’re just scratching the
surface as our 2nd generation will enable greater support for
future mission-critical space operation. The future of autonomy in
space is bright.”
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR:
BCHPY) BrainChip is the worldwide leader in Edge AI on-chip
processing and learning. The company’s first-to-market, fully
digital, event-based AI processor, Akida™, uses neuromorphic
principles to mimic the human brain, analyzing only essential
sensor inputs at the point of acquisition, processing data with
unparalleled efficiency, precision, and economy of energy. Akida
uniquely enables Edge learning local to the chip, independent of
the cloud, dramatically reducing latency while improving privacy
and data security. Akida Neural processor IP, which can be
integrated into SoCs on any process technology, has shown
substantial benefits on today’s workloads and networks, and offers
a platform for developers to create, tune and run their models
using standard AI workflows like Tensorflow/Keras. In enabling
effective Edge compute to be universally deployable across real
world applications such as connected cars, consumer electronics,
and industrial IoT, BrainChip is proving that on-chip AI, close to
the sensor, is the future, for its customers’ products, as well as
the planet. Explore the benefits of Essential AI at
www.brainchip.com.
About Space Machines Company
Space Machines Company (SMC) is an Australian company delivering
on-orbit servicing and protection of critical space infrastructure
through its Orbital Servicing Network. SMC supports mobility,
inspection, deorbiting, repair, life extension, and protection
capability to satellite customers when and where they need it.
About ANT61
ANT61 is an Australian company focused on building intelligent,
reliable products that extend the life of critical space
infrastructure that humanity depends on. Building on a state of art
technology platform to increase autonomy and learning in remote
solutions that are necessary in harsh environments.
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