WB Group partners with Applied AGI on AI-enabled UAV

Wilczek said that AI is to UAVs what jet engines were to aircraft. (Polish embassy in London)

At an event at the Polish embassy in London on 5 March, WB Group and UK small and medium-sized enterprise Applied AGI (AAGI) announced their partnership to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

WB offers the FlyEye and FT-5 reconnaissance UAVs and Warmate loitering munition (LM), while AAGI, in collaboration with the UK Royal Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, has developed the Beaconn system that reduces workloads and cognitive burden, supporting faster, better decisions under pressure across the land, sea, air, and space domains. The system is designed to identify enemy assets in complex and cluttered environments, including camouflaged and disguised targets across varying orientations, lighting, and weather conditions.

Piotr Wilczek, Polish ambassador to the UK, said AI is to UAVs what jet engines were to aircraft. AAGI presented video showing how its AI can distinguish between different types of vehicles and ships with a high level of accuracy, which Craig Livingstone, the companyʼs development director, described to Janes as “baby steps”. AAGI CEO Tom Girn said artificial general intelligence (AGI), the next step in AI, learns like a child does and spoke about an upcoming demonstration of the technology in Poland. Livingstone said the companyʼs AGI would be used for training and that AAGI was proposing it for future UK UAVs, which do not necessarily have to be from WB.