XTEND Strengthens Executive Team as it Pioneers Access to Civilian Markets - Democratizing Remote Interactive Operations for All - UASweekly.com - UASweekly.com

XTEND, the developer of XOS, a revolutionary human-guided semi-autonomous operating system, has appointed Jim Michel arsenic its caller Director of Business Development for Public Safety and Security. Michel volition pb the improvement of XTEND’s civilian concern successful the US, and thrust the aboriginal applications of XTEND’s technology, and its scalable and infinitely flexible XOS operating system, successful nationalist safety, security, inspection, and different civilian markets.

XTEND’s XOS operating strategy enables anyone to easy link and interact wrong distant environments utilizing drones and different astute machines, without the request for anterior cognition oregon training. This allows operators to move, see, interact, and tally 3rd enactment applications connected distant machines precisely, intuitively, and immersively, utilizing a blend of augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics and AI. This makes XOS perfectly suited for operating devices successful civilian scenarios, providing a caller mode for humans to interact with machines virtually.

“After 3 years of unrecorded operations, XTEND is acceptable to grow into caller markets to guarantee Remote Interactive Operations are accessible to everyone,” said Aviv Shapira, co-founder, and CEO astatine XTEND. “Our purpose is to marque XOS the operating strategy of prime successful a scope of scenarios. Allowing professionals to power remote-powered drones and astute machines and transportation retired analyzable tasks that necessitate quality enactment and decision-making remotely. Our purpose is to statesman revolutionizing operations successful instrumentality enforcement, commercialized security, inspection, manufacturing, travel, and amusement precise soon.”

Michel brings implicit 20 years of acquisition to XTEND, with a inheritance successful distant sensing, geographic accusation systems (GIS), and exertion enlargement successful the authorities and inferior ecosystems. He has held enactment roles successful the distant sensing and GIS manufacture for 20 years, astir precocious starring Skyline Software Systems’ 3D business. He has a grade successful Imaging Science and Remote Sensing from the Rochester Institute of Technology and started his vocation astatine Eastman Kodak, designing abstraction and aerial imaging systems, on with representation processing and manipulation.

XTEND has precocious been awarded respective multi-million dollar contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and MAFAT, the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Research & Development Directorate, to modernize their usage of drone technology. In some cases, XOS is already enabling subject drone operators to interactively run aggregate astute machines from a remote, harmless distance, with zero training.