Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets

Scaleout Systems demonstrated an autonomous strike drone under BAE Systems Bofors' ALMA program that finds, ranks and hits targets without operator communication. It runs YOLOv8 Nano on an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano at 30 fps with about 30 ms latency; the mission took under 320 seconds.

• Drone autonomously detected and attacked an armored engineering vehicle in 320 seconds
• AI runs on Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano with YOLOv8 Nano at 30 fps
• Inference latency about 30 ms, no operator communication required
• FEDAIR project received €100,000 from NATO DIANA accelerator