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#Fiber optic FPV drone | Immune to electronic warfare (EW) | Free of limitations brought by radio horizon | Perfect video feed right up to the target | Hanging under the drone is a large but fairly lightweight cylinder holding long spool of lightweight optical fiber , which gradually releases as drone flies forward | Drone is wire-guided precision weapon | Fiber optic allows FPV drones to fly where they never could before | Ukraine Achilles Strike Drone Regiment is using | Weight higher | Fiber optic spool bulk | Larger drone frame | More powerful motors | Larger battery | Airframe is slower, less maneuverable, and easier to shoot down with small arms than standard FPV drones | Hard connection between pilot and drone leaves physical trail of fiber after every flight, which, once they start to accumulate, can become visible | Fiber is very reflective in sunlight making it possible to find pilot | Autonomous targeting is often less reliable than capable pilot and needs more expensive hardware on drone | FPV drones efficient targeting Ukrainian logistics routes | Russian fiber optic drone Knyaz Vandal Novgorodsky model | Azov Brigade of Ukraine National Guard prepares new fiber optic drones | Quality cable comes from China | Ready-made fiber optic spools available for purchase on online marketplace such as AliExpress | Silkworm: fiber modular optic spool that can be used both on FPV drones and unmanned ground vehicles manufactured by Ukraine Unmanned Systems Forces | Fiber optic drones have proven themselves in combat | Most of Ukraine spools are 10 km long

#Very High Density (VHD) graphite blocks | Thermal Energy Storage: for solar-thermal systems and renewable energy storage due to high thermal conductivity and durability | Semiconductors and Electronics: for heat sinks for high-performance computing, AI, and consumer electronics to manage overheating | Defense and Aerospace: for components requiring high strength, thermal stability, and efficiency | Nuclear Energy: for reactors due to superior thermal properties and low porosity | Batteries and Fuel Cells: to enhance energy density and efficiency in lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells

#Rapid Deployment

#Hatching

#Fully Automatic Flight Control

#Redundant Auto PiilotbSystem

#Operating Alongside Fighter Jet

#Sensor Dropping

#Sensor Communication

#Photo Shooting

#Video Recording

#Data Releying

#Mission Profile Planning

#Communication With Base

#Refueling

#Recharging

#Operating Inside Pod

#Autonomous Flying

#Satellite Communication

#Command And Controlvä Center Collaboration

#Sensor Data Collection

#Video Shooting

#Sensoring

#Hiding

#Self Destruction

#Object Detection

#Machine Programming

#Updates Downloading

#Mission Profile Management

#Self Service

#Flying Around Machine On Job Site

#Helicopter Lessor

#1550nm LiDAR | Advantages: safety, range, and performance in various environmental conditions | Enhanced Eye Safety: absorbed more efficiently by cornea and lens of eye, preventing light from reaching sensitive retina | Longer Detection Range | Improved Performance in Adverse Weather Conditions such as as fog, rain, or dust | Reduced Interference from Sunlight and Other Light Sources | More expensive due to complexity and lower production volumes of their components

#SLAM | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

#Ultra sonic piezo motor

#Vector database

#Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology | onsemi Treo platform to provide embedded non-volatile memory | ReRAM integration into Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process | Potential alternative to flash memory | Demand for faster, more efficient, and scalable memory solutions increasing | Lower power consumption | Less vulnerable to common hacking tactics | ReRAM can be integrated easily into chip designs without interfering with power analog components

#A-list celebrity home protector | Burglaries targeting high-end items | Burglary report on Lime Orchard Road | Burglar had smashed glass door of residence | Ransacked home and fled | Couple were not home at the time | Unknown whether any items were taken | Lime Orchard Road is within Hidden Valley gated community of Los Angeles in Beverly Hills | Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lawrence, Adele and Katy Perry have purchased homes there, in addition to Kidman and Urban | Kidman and Urban bought their home for $4.7 million in 2008 | 4,100-square-foot, five-bedroom home built in 1965 and sits on 1¼-acre lot | Property large windows have views of the canyons | Theirs is one of several celebrity properties burglarized in Los Angeles and across country recently | Connected to South American organized-theft rings

#Professional athlete home protector | South American crime rings | Targeting wealthy Southern California neighborhoods for sophisticated home burglaries | Behind burglaries at homes of professional athletes and celebrities | Theft groups conduct extensive research before plotting burglaries | Monitoring target whereabouts and weekly routines via social media | Tracking travel and schedules | Conducting physical surveillance at homes | Attacks staged while targets and their families are away | Robbers aware of where valuables are stored in homes prior to staging break-ins | Burglaries conducted in short amount of time | Bypass alarm systems | Use Wi-Fi jammers to block Wi-Fi connections | Disable devices | Cover security cameras | Obfuscate identities

#ROS 2 | The second version of the Robot Operating System | Communication, compatibility with other operating systems | Authentication and encryption mechanisms | Works natively on Linux, Windows, and macOS | Fast RTPS based on DDS (Data Distribution Service) | Programming languages: C++, Python, Rust

#Dexterous robot | Manipulate objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Dexterity involves fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity is crucial in: manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enables automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#Agentic AI | Artificial intelligence systems with a degree of autonomy, enabling them to make decisions, take actions, and learn from experiences to achieve specific goals, often with minimal human intervention | Agentic AI systems are designed to operate independently, unlike traditional AI models that rely on predefined instructions or prompts | Reinforcement learning (RL) | Deep neural network (DNN) | Multi-agent system (MAS) | Goal-setting algorithm | Adaptive learning algorithm | Agentic agents focus on autonomy and real-time decision-making in complex scenarios | Ability to determine intent and outcome of processes | Planning and adapting to changes | Ability to self-refine and update instructions without outside intervention | Full autonomy requires creativity and ability to anticipate changing needs before they occur proactively | Agentic AI benefits Industry 4.0 facilities monitoring machinery in real time, predicting failures, scheduling maintenance, reducing downtime, and optimizing asset availability, enabling continuous process optimization, minimizing waste, and enhancing operational efficiency

#Large Language Model (LLM) | Foundational LLM: ex Wikipedia in all its languages fed to LLM one word at a time | LLM is trained to predict the next word most likely to appear in that context | LLM intellugence is based on its ability to predict what comes next in a sentence | LLMs are amazing artifacts, containing a model of all of language, on a scale no human could conceive or visualize | LLMs do not apply any value to information, or truthfulness of sentences and paragraphs they have learned to produce | LLMs are powerful pattern-matching machines but lack human-like understanding, common sense, or ethical reasoning | LLMs produce merely a statistically probable sequence of words based on their training | LLMs are very good at summarizing | Inappropriate use of LLMs as search engines has produced lots of unhappy results | LLM output follows path of most likely words and assembles them into sentences | Pathological liars as a source for information | Incredibly good at turning pre-existing information into words | Give them facts and let them explain or impart them

#Retrieval Augmented Generation. (RAG LLM) | Designed for answering queries in a specific subject, for example, how to operate a particular appliance, tool, or type of machinery | LLM takes as much textual information about subject, user manuals and then pre-process it into small chunks containing few specific facts | When user asks question, software system identifies chunk of text which is most likely to contain answer | Question and answer are then fed to LLM, which generates human-language answer in response to query | Enforcing factualness on LLMs

#Large Behavior Model (LBM) | Controlling the entire robot actions | Joint research partnership between Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute | Collaboration aims to create a general-purpose humanoid assistant | Whole-body movements: walking, crouching, and lifting to complete tasks that involve sorting and packing

#Vision-language model (VLM) | Training vision models when labeled data unavailable | Techniques enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | LLMs used as visual reasoning coordinators | Using multiple task-specific models

#Immediate.Measures to Increase American Mineral Production

#Critical minerals in Artificial Intelligence | At the core of AI transformation lies a complex ecosystem of critical minerals, each playing a distinct role | Boron: used to alter electrical properties of silicon | Silicon: fundamental material used in most semiconductors and integrated circuits | Phosphorus: helps establish the alternating p-n junctions necessary for creating transistors and integrated circuits | Cobalt: used in metallisation processes of semiconductor manufacturing | Copper: primary conductor in integrated circuits | Gallium: used in compound semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) | Germanium: used in high-speed integrated circuits and fibre-optic technologies | Arsenic: employed as a dopant in silicon-based semiconductors | Indium phosphide: widely used in optical communications | Palladium: used in production of multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) | Silver: the most conductive metal used in specialised integrated circuits and circuit boards | Tungsten: serves as a key material in transistors and as a contact metal in chip interconnects | Gold: used in bonding wires, connectors, and contact pads in chip packaging | Europium: enables improved performance in lasers, LEDs, and high-frequency electronics essential to AI systems and optical networks | Yttrium: improves the efficiency and stability of materials like GaN and InP, supporting advanced applications in photonics, high-speed computing, and communications technologies

#Critical minerals for Optics, Imaging & Advanced Materials | Graphite: high-speed electronics, advanced sensors, and thermal management systems | Copper: short-distance data transmission in AI data centres | Germanium: a key material in thermal imaging, night-vision optics, and fibre-optic communication systems | Indium: optical communication systems | Praseodymium: specific types of lasers and optical materials | Neodymium:solid-state lasers | Holmium: specialised laser systems, particularly medical and scientific applications

#Critical minerals for Power Supply & Batteries | Lithium: portable electronics, wearables, electric vehicles | Graphite: stores lithium ions during charging process and releases them during discharge | Manganese: used in various lithium-ion battery chemistries | Cobalt: critical to the performance of premium mobile and computing devices | Nickel: crucial for electric vehicles, high-performance electronics, and energy-intensive AI systems

#Broad Area Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Self-Assessment Trial | Groundbreaking self-assessment capability gained | Faster Drone-in-a-Box deployments | The first commercial operator approved under CASA new self-assessment trial | Capability to self-assess and commence operations within days | Enterprises operating across multiple sites - particularly in mining, agriculture, and industrial sectors - new projects can start faster, site expansions supported immediately, autonomous drone benefits realised quicker | RocketDNA operated BVLOS missions from Remote Operations Centre (ROC) since 2022 | Developed robust safety management systems | Refined operational procedures through thousands of flights | Built deep expertise in risk assessment and mitigation | Established proven track records with the regulator | Operating safely around active industrial sites and infrastructure | Navigating overlapping safety frameworks (aviation, mining, workplace safety) | Working seamlessly with existing site operations and security protocols | Meeting the uptime and performance standards enterprise customers demand | Deployment and installation at client site | Remote operations from certified Operations Centre | Maintenance and compliance for all equipment | Data processing and delivery in preferred formats | Drone capability can move with operational priorities, not lag weeks behind them | Ability to quickly deploy drone to new locations | Running comparative trials across different sites | Autonomous drones can handle mine stock pile flights automatically on a set schedule | Volume calculations and 3D models are ready within hours | Automated flight patterns give consistent image overlap and quality. | Better data for planning | Fewer surprises at end of month | Docked drone systems sit in weatherproof unit that houses drone and its charging and communications systems | Base station arrives on site pre-mounted on a skid to make installation simple | Off-grid power options like hybrid solar, battery, and diesel | When scheduled or triggered manually, roof slides open, drone takes off, flies a pre-set route, and returns to recharge | Data uploads automatically, streaming live to team via Starlink, LTE/5G, or site network | SurveyBot start from around $50–60k | Rio Tinto Gudai-Darri mine designed around autonomous haulage and remote operating centres | Mine planning, drill and blast, environmental, and geotechnical teams all needed regular surveys and imagery to support their work | Autonomous haulage fleet is running continuously | Reducing the number of manual vehicle movements into the pit | Giving multiple departments faster access to survey imagery and data | Freeing surveyors from routine flying | With more than 190 square kilometres of mine to cover | Automating routine missions with docked drone system, but retaining manual flights for specialised jobs | Satellite connections with Starlink meant system could be brought online with a simple antenna

#Robotics development platform | Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) | Robot arms | Manipulators | Humanoids | Simulation | Robot learning frameworks | GPU accelerated libraries | AI models | Reference workflows