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XTEND, a world leader in human-guided autonomous drone systems, and Spleenlab, a pioneer in AI-based flight software and autonomous navigation, are proud to announce a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the performance and mission capabilities of XTEND’s smart platforms.

We’re excited to announce that Spleenlab will be exhibiting at DSEI UK 2025, one of the world’s leading defense and security events, taking place from September 9–12, 2025 at Excel London.

Spleenlab’s approach is to break down the vision of fully autonomous flight into its sub-steps and fully automate these individual processes using AI-based applications. One of the most critical phases of autonomous flight is landing, where a large number of variable factors play a role.

Dezember 11, 2023 10:43 am On Thursday, 7 December, our annual Christmas party took place at #Spleenlab. This year we visited the Christmas market in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, to enjoy the legendary mulled wine and a few sweets.

At IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich, we had our partnership PR event with Apex.AI. Our Co-CEO & CTO Dr. Stefan Milz presented together with Serkan Arslan, Senior VP Global Business of Apex.AI the launch of VISIONAIRY® Online Calibration on Apex.Grace™. 

As the world of automotive technology progresses toward a future of partially and highly automated vehicles, ensuring the utmost safety in these advanced systems becomes paramount. A key factor in achieving this level of safety is the accurate calibration of the sensor suites that power these vehicles‘ perception capabilities. Introduction: The Need for Robust Perception In modern vehicles with many sensors such as cameras, lidars, and radars, redundancy is the foundation f

Juli 3, 2023 1:23 pm The Planning Office of the German Armed Forces has awarded Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Quantum-Systems GmbH and Spleenlab GmbH with a research endeavorto demonstrate and analyze the AI building blocks required for swarms of tactical UAS in a real-world scenario. The project, titled KITU 2 (Künstliche Intelligenz für taktische UAS; Artificial Intelligence for tactical UAS), is funded by the German Ministry of Defence. The focus of the study is on the e

Spleenlab the AI-based VISIONAIRY® Perception onboard software company, and DroneUp, a leading autonomous drone delivery provider, have announced testing of new precise landing technology. Initial testing consists of the Safe Precise Landing Software, which is an important building block for safe and autonomous delivery and landing by drone. This collaboration started approximately one year ago and has included onsite testing and integration into the DroneUp fleet.

1) What is your academic career like? What did you do before Spleenlab? My academic career includes a Master’s degree in Engineering Computer Science from TU Ilmenau with specialization in Cognitive Systems and Robotics. Before joining Spleenlab, I worked at Easterngraphics where I was involved in image classification, search engine development, backend and frontend development, and synthetic data generation.

Sensors in vehicles are permanently calibrated from the factory and can become misaligned over time. With our AI-based VISIONAIRY® Online Calibration Software, we can detect this offset and permanently recalibrate the sensors in real time while driving, ensuring consistently high functionality & safety of all assistance systems.

How can fully automated locomotion be enabled in a cost-effective and safe manner while minimizing the use for sensor technology and the effort for data labeling? A new and groundbreaking approach is monocular depth estimation, which in combination with a deep learning approach can enable exactly this.

In our latest interview, Ashwanth Ravi, Software Engineer – Robotics, talks about his educational background, his passions and work at Spleenlab. He describes how AI software can play a fundamental role in the future of autonomous flying and driving vehicles and what could be possible in the next years.

1) What is Windrove’s work like in Hamburg? What is its significance for the drone location in Germany and Europe? Our daily work actually consists a lot of connecting people from the drone economy with each other. In the Hamburg metropolitan region alone, for example, there are many innovation projects that deal with U-Space, vertiports, automation or defense, so that an exchange among each other is always fruitful. As a network, we are a neutral contact for the community a

An important factor for safer autonomous travel is minimising the risks that can lead to accidents. One major risk is the loss of satellite-based positioning signals (GNSS signal). Especially indoors and when flying out of sight and in rough terrain, a loss of connection can be fatal. In the best case, a homecoming function is activated, but an uncontrolled crash is also a likely scenario...

Today we’re introducing a new format. We present our coworkers in short interview stories to give an insight into our company Spleenlab GmbH, starting with Dr. Ralf Seidler, a Senior Software Engineer based in our office in Jena.

Collision avoidance in the air, during landing, safe automated inspections of critical infrastructure, detection and tracking of objects for automated flight maneuvers, obstacle detection, assessment of risks in the air and on the ground with the help of AI and machine learning, are now a reality. That’s because Spleenlab and its groundbreaking VISIONAIRY® software are now part of Auterion’s ecosystem...

DLR’s Johann Dauer discusses AI in drones, BVLOS flight, certification challenges, and the role of KI4Flight in advancing autonomous aviation in Germany.

1) For years, you have been one of the leading experts on aerospace in Germany and beyond. Drones, air cabs, automated and pilotless flight systems. The world of flight is on the move. What has changed the most in the last 5 years from your point of view? The most significant change in the flight world has definitely been the many creative ideas about air cabs. But also the intensive search for business fields for the civil use of drones has really shaken up the scene. One c