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Japanese Aerospace Manufacturer Teams Up with EdgeCortix for Next-Gen Defense Systems
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. and EdgeCortix Inc. have announced a multi-year partnership to develop next-generation AI-enabled aerial defense systems. The program combines Kawasaki’s defense engineering capabilities with EdgeCortix’s energy-efficient artificial intelligence processing hardware and software platforms. The partnership aims to develop systems that can perform real-time sensor fusion, object recognition, and threat assessment at the point of data generation, reducing transmission latency and bandwidth demands on tactical data links. This development was first reported by Satnews.