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- Strategic acquisition of Singapore deep-tech company Spinoff Robotics
- Acquisition to add two proprietary drone platforms in active commercial deployment
- Transaction completes Nanoveu’s full-stack vertical integration
- Defence markets and commercial applications to be priority targets
Nanoveu (ASX: NVU) is targeting the defence market with new technology being added through the proposed strategic acquisition of Singapore company Spinoff Robotics.
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Spinoff, a deep-tech spinout from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), specialises in advanced semiconductor, visualisation and materials sciences.
It develops clean-sheet aerial platforms engineered from first principles, with full in-house control over airframe, aerodynamics, flight control and on-board sensing, to meet mission-specific requirements.
Executive chairman, Dr David Pevcic, said the acquisition will add two technologies validated by tier one customers, along with in-house-developed proprietary drone products.
“The proposed acquisition of Spinoff Robotics is a defining step in the build-out of Nanoveu’s autonomous drone platform, providing the in-house deployment surface to scale ECS-DoT silicon and validate next-generation edge-AI functions — including multi-chip configurations, GPS-free navigation and mission-specific perception workloads — in one of the highest-volume edge-AI markets,” Dr Pevcic said.
“With proprietary airframes and sensing sitting alongside the company’s silicon, edge-AI IP and autonomy algorithms, Nanoveu is placed to own every layer of the stack required to ship validated reference designs into defence, critical-infrastructure security and industrial inspection.”
Dr Pevcic said the acquisition will also bring underlying engineering capability to design and build next generation purpose-built drones for identified target verticals.
“This acquisition is a strategic step for the company as it continues to build out solutions for major drone markets,” he said.
“The 22nm and 16nm ECS-DoT System-on-Chip (SoC), combined with Spinoff’s aerial robotics expertise will provide optionality for the company to engineer its SoC technology into the drone from the outset.
“In doing so, sensor placement, power envelope and control-loop latency can be designed around ECS-DoT, unlocking better on-device intelligence and flight responsiveness.”
Dr Pevcic said with the acquisition, the company will hold every foundational layer required to design and field its own proprietary drone platforms from the ground up across mission profiles ranging from persistent ISR overwatch to battlefield-grade tactical platforms.
NVU is up 7.94% to 6.8¢ . Mkt cap $68.06M.
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