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Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration

Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration

Nokia and Motorola Solutions announce that the companies have integrated their drone technologies—Nokia’s hardware and Motorola Solutions’ drone-controlling CAPE software—to make an “artificial-intelligence (AI) enhanced, automated drone-in-a-box offering targeted for first responders.

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Drones & Robots
Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration
Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration
Dec 12, 2024
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Is Salt Typhoon a material threat to telecom?
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UK Home Office inks $1.62 billion deal to extend BT Group’s ESN work to 2032
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Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration
Nokia, Motorola Solutions team to launch AI-enhanced, automated ‘drone-in-a-box’ integration

Dec 12, 2024

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FCC proposes new cybersecurity rules for telecoms
FCC proposes new cybersecurity rules for telecoms

Dec 12, 2024

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Governments, telcos ward off China's hacking Typhoons

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Motorola Solutions: Jeff Sausman, Jim Wolfinbarger demo VESTA NXT call-handling solutionMotorola Solutions: Jeff Sausman, Jim Wolfinbarger demo VESTA NXT call-handling solution
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