To keep you from crashing into stuff, Intel is buying drone company Ascending Technologies
Jan04
Intel is taking to the skies. Today, the company announced it is purchasing German drone company Ascending Technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s not Intel’s first dealing with Ascending Technologies. In announcing the deal, Intel says it previously worked Ascending’s sense-and-avoid API into its Real Sense camera tech for use with drones. That partnership may have been the jumping-off point for this deal, according to Intel: With Ascending Technologies, Intel gains expertise and technology to accelerate the deployment of Intel RealSense technology into the fast growing drone market segment. We plan for the Ascending Technologies team…
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