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Palladyne AI Achieves Breakthrough Flight Milestone With First Flight of IntelliSwarm: Palladyne AI’s SwarmOS Autonomous Swarming Software Integrated Into Its BRAIN X2 Flight Computer
Rapid Three-Week Integration of SwarmOS and BRAIN X2 Enabled First Flight of IntelliSwarm on Palladyne Defense’s Banshee Loitering Munition Platform
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nRapid Three-Week Integration of SwarmOS and BRAIN X2 Enabled First Flight of IntelliSwarm on Palladyne Defense’s Banshee Loitering Munition Platform\n\n\nIntelliSwarm Flight Milestone Validates Decentralized Edge Autonomy and Accelerates Delivery of IntelliSwarm to UAS and Attritable Munitions OEMs\n\n\n SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPalladyne AI Corp. (NASDAQ: PDYN and PDYNW) (“Palladyne AI”), 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, today announced the successful flight test of IntelliSwarm, the integrated autonomy stack combining its SwarmOS autonomy software with its BRAIN X2 Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) flight computer, demonstrated for the first time on Palladyne Defense’s Banshee loitering munition platform and in autonomous collaboration with Red Cat (NASDAQ: RCAT) drone platforms.\n\n\nBen Wolff, President and Chief Executive Officer of Palladyne AI, commented: “IntelliSwarm is flight-proven technology today - not a future concept. This successful integration fundamentally changes what's possible and economically viable in AI-enabled unmanned systems. Demonstrating IntelliSwarm on our Banshee platform, while collaborating with Red Cat drone platforms, showcases our vertical integration, rapid execution, and commitment to delivering battlefield advantages. For defense customers and UAV manufacturers, IntelliSwarm provides the foundational autonomy layer to accelerate next-generation swarming while reducing costs, speeding deployment, and enabling decisive edge performance in denied domains.”\n\n\nThis milestone represents the inaugural flight of Palladyne AI’s IntelliSwarm autonomy stack, deployed on its proprietary Banshee mini-bomber UAV concept, which autonomously collaborated with drones from Red Cat. Building on prior SwarmOS demonstrations with third-party UAV platforms, this test validates the combined, tamper-proof edge-AI solution in a real world, heterogeneous multi-vehicle scenario and represents a pivotal step in advancing both IntelliSwarm and Banshee towards operational readiness.\n\n\nIntelliSwarm results from the rapid, three-week integration of Palladyne AI’s patented SwarmOS autonomy software with its NDAA...