What Palladyne Does and Why It is So Cool

Palladyne is in the news a lot as well as it should be. The software/AI system attaches to other AI systems, either new or retrofitted, to help with new tasks, systems, enhancements and even logic. Is the logic component that is most exciting to us. The tools can allow robots to switch tasks, lines, or processes in minutes.

Palladyne’s commercial autonomy stack began with Palladyne IQ and Palladyne Pilot, which bring adaptive, edge-based AI into industrial automation, logistics, and aviation. That same architecture evolved into SwarmOS, the defense autonomy system that enables multi-UAS coordination, swarming behaviors, and real-time decision-making without reliance on cloud or remote computing.

Mid-November, the Company announced the creation of Palladyne Defense, supported by acquisitions that add aerospace engineering, mission-grade avionics, and US-based AS9100-certified manufacturing. SwarmOS continues to be offered as a standalone defense autonomy platform. In parallel, the Company is developing IntelliSwarm, which integrates SwarmOS directly into Palladyne’s BRAIN avionics units. That integration will ultimately create a unified autonomy layer where AI, sensors, and avionics operate within a single mission-grade hardware module.

With this structure, Palladyne now brings together:

• SwarmOS for coordinated multi-UAS autonomy and swarming

• IntelliSwarm (in development), integrating SwarmOS into BRAIN avionics

• BRAIN, a mission-grade avionics suite that consolidates four avionics modules into one lower-cost package

• Project Banshee and Project SwarmStrike, the Company’s flight-tested attritable autonomous systems

• Domestic AS9100 certified manufacturing supporting platforms including F16, F35, Tomahawk, Harpoon, and Bradley