The company DJI which manufactures drone and the company Canonical which distributes Linux Ubuntu, today unveiled the Manifold, a small computer built into a drone that will host applications for it.
The manifold fits only to Matrice 100 of the DJI platform, so do not wait for plans to customize it to your own drone. The 100 Matrix is essentially one test model by DJI, at a cost of $3.300,00 with the option transporthardware, such as Manifold and customizable sensors.
Inside the Manifold there is one Processor quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 and an NVIDIA Kepler-based graphics card.
DJI claims that this computer will enable "new applications of artificial intelligence, such as computer vision and self-learning". The computer also has standard USB and Ethernet ports for the connection infrared cameras, devices for atmospheric research, research equipment, and other sensors. There is also an HDMI port to connect to a monitor.
Considering the partnership with Canonical, it is no surprise that the computer will run Ubuntu.
