Chinese fire up world’s ‘most powerful’ drone brain

Last updated on September 8th, 2018

Chinese UAV outfit DJI is trumpeting the release of what it describes as the “most powerful computer designed for drones” – the “Manifold” embedded computer packing a quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 processor. The flying computer runs Canonical’s Ubuntu 14.04 which, with DJI’s Onboard SDK, promises a “user-friendly system enabling developers to create more powerful professional applications for use with aerial technology”.