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Sorry if already posted, I see that Hao has been following and liking all of Kevin's work with Akida.
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bit on edge there mate. Doing what? Testing. That’s it. Testing and finding positive result. Maybe you should sell out (if you are holding) cause it seems owning BRN is making you nervous.
Its becoming very clear that IBM is after a decent slice of the increased US Defense AI $$$ push.
It is interesting how the design of Kevin's system including AKIDA mirrors what actually happens during conflict.
From the blog:
" The design mirrors how military hierarchy actually works. A squad leader does not forward every observation to their brigade. The squad synthesizes, decides what is relevant, and reports up the chain. Platoons and companies do the same. Each echelon receives the level of detail appropriate for its command and control responsibility rather than a raw dump of everything below it."
It is interesting how the design of Kevin's system including AKIDA mirrors what actually happens during conflict.
From the blog:
" The design mirrors how military hierarchy actually works. A squad leader does not forward every observation to their brigade. The squad synthesizes, decides what is relevant, and reports up the chain. Platoons and companies do the same. Each echelon receives the level of detail appropriate for its command and control responsibility rather than a raw dump of everything below it."
It appears Kevin has been working with AKIDA for a few months. We thought about 3 weeks?
It also appears his work with AKIDA has only just scratched the surface.
From comments scetion of latest post.
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Appreciate the kind words. Amazingly, I've only been working with Akida for a few months. I'm planning on a few things in the immediate future here: 1) Akida w/Symphony and the Prediction Markets--been slow boating historical data for a couple of weeks now, 2) Akida w/Symphony and IBM i/RPG, 3) Akida w/Symphony and World Monitor, 4) Akida w/Symphony Limit Order Book Diffusion models (hot Quant topic), and 5) Akida w/Symphony for satellite change detection. GPFS will also likely be involved with most of these as well. I'm also looking at Akida for network routing, stuff I've already tested but may apply in a different context. Lots to do!
My bold above.
It also appears his work with AKIDA has only just scratched the surface.
From comments scetion of latest post.
Kevin D. Johnson Author
Field CTO – HPC, AI, LLM & Quantum Computing | Principal HPC Cloud Technical Specialist at IBM | Symphony • GPFS • LSF14h
Appreciate the kind words. Amazingly, I've only been working with Akida for a few months. I'm planning on a few things in the immediate future here: 1) Akida w/Symphony and the Prediction Markets--been slow boating historical data for a couple of weeks now, 2) Akida w/Symphony and IBM i/RPG, 3) Akida w/Symphony and World Monitor, 4) Akida w/Symphony Limit Order Book Diffusion models (hot Quant topic), and 5) Akida w/Symphony for satellite change detection. GPFS will also likely be involved with most of these as well. I'm also looking at Akida for network routing, stuff I've already tested but may apply in a different context. Lots to do!
My bold above.
Given Kevin has revealed he has been working with AKIDA for several months and the sense of urgency about the US defense AI push would it be a surprise to see a partnership emerge between IBM and Brainchip in the next couple of months??
Especially if IBM want surety of chip supply.
Especially if IBM want surety of chip supply.
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News from our friends at OHB Hellas: Meet Hummingbird, their new small demonstrator, for which they used Akida “directly on the drone to perform real-time vehicle detection from RGB images, without any ground connection”!
OHB Hellas are translating their space onboard computing research to the UAV world: “We just flew neuromorphic AI on a small UAV - onboard, in real time, with very low power.”
“… an important step to explore technologies that can serve UAVs today and also satellite missions tomorrow.”
#uav #edgeai #neuromorphic #onboardcomputing #lowswap #aerospace #ohbhellas | OHB Hellas
We just flew neuromorphic AI on a small UAV — onboard, in real time, with very low power. At OHB Hellas, we try to bring our experience from space onboard computing also into the UAV world. Hummingbird is our new small demonstrator where we used Akida neuromorphic processor by BrainChip...www.linkedin.com
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In his comment, OHB Hellas CTO and Managing Director Mathieu Bernou names the three researchers from the Orbital High Performance Computing (Orbital-HPC) team (https://www.ohb-hellas.gr/activities/orbital-hpc/) who worked on Hummingbird:
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Niki Doulou: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niki-doulou-168944254/
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Giannis Panagiotopoulos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giannispanagiotopoulos/
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Evgenios Tsigkanos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgenios-tsigkanos/
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Checked out the LinkedIn profile of Stavros Messinis, whom OHB Hellas thanked for “the UAV platform and his invaluable support” in their post.
Turns out he founded and successfully ran an Athens-based UAV company called Smart Flying Machines from 2022 to 2024, which he then sold to Lambda Automata, now known as Delian Alliance Industries (taking their name from the Delian League, a 5th century BC anti-Persian defensive association of equal Greek city states under the hegemony of Athens, which gradually evolved into the Athenian Empire).
The mission of Delian Alliance Industries - with offices in Athens and London - is: “Deter.Detect.Defend. Autonomy for area denial and counter-drone” (www.delian.ai) and “Protect the West and its allies in an era of autonomous warfare.”
Introducing Delian Alliance Industries (formerly Lambda Automata). New name, same mission: Protect the West and its allies in an era of autonomous warfare. We take our name from the Delian… | Delian Alliance Industries
Introducing Delian Alliance Industries (formerly Lambda Automata). New name, same mission: Protect the West and its allies in an era of autonomous warfare. We take our name from the Delian League, one of the West's oldest military alliances. We do so at a time of geopolitical peril and...
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From September 2024 to July 2025, Stavros Messinis was an Innovation Consultant with INTERWEAVE. His bio, which can still be found on their website, provides some additional info compared to his LinkedIn profile, such as that Smart Flying Machines was “a defense-tech company developing an intelligent aerial surveillance system”:
Stavros Messinis - Interweave Agency
Stavros Messinis, originally from South Africa, studied Electronic Systems Design and built a strong foundation in technology. He moved to Greece in 1996 and began his career as an Information Systems Manager at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Athens. From 2000 to 2011, he served...interweaveagency.com
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In June 2025, Stavros Messinis co-founded ResilienceTech Venture Partners (RTVP) with John Doxaras. The company appears to have two websites: https://fieldbox.cc/ as well as https://rtvp.cc/home.
#fieldbox #dualuse #resilience #wash #energyaccess #modularinfrastructure #humanitariantech #defencetech #newventure | Stavros Messinis
Time to take it out of stealth mode - Announcing FieldBox. (https://fieldbox.cc) After years of working in innovation and transformation across sectors, and after time spent in crisis zones, disaster-hit areas, and consulting with frontline field officers, I’m excited to share our next venture...
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According to www.fieldbox.cc, the FieldBox business unit offers “modular container-based solutions designed for military and civilian operations across any terrain or climate”, including the option of a “UAV assembly, maintenance, and operations center for reconnaissance missions”.
ResilienceTech’s other website (www.rtvp.cc) advertises “Professional sales and comprehensive training programs for tactical first-person view systems and operations.”
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They appear to be very well networked with the Greek military:
#resiliencetech #defenceinnovation #fpv #electronicwarfare #interop #fieldrepair #trainingreadiness #parmenion2025 #hellenicarmedforces #resiliencetechventurepartners #resiliencetech… | ResilienceTech
RTVP Field Report: Parmenion 2025 – Xanthi Last week, ResilienceTech Venture Partners (RTVP) took part in Parmenion 2025, Greece’s largest annual military exercise in Xanthi, alongside Hellenic Army and Special Forces units and eight defense industry partners. Our team demonstrated the CZ1...
“Last week, ResilienceTech Venture Partners (RTVP) took part in Parmenion 2025, Greece’s largest annual military exercise in Xanthi, alongside Hellenic Army and Special Forces units and eight defense industry partners.
Our team demonstrated the CZ1 Argus Fiber-Optic FPV platform, completing six live missions under varied weather and electronic warfare (EW) conditions.
These sorties delivered valuable insights into how EW interference, terrain masking, and adverse weather affect low-latency video and vehicle control.
A key takeaway: interoperability—technological and procedural—remains essential. The flow of information and coordination between units, systems, and partners define operational tempo and decision quality.”
A few weeks ago, Stavros Messinis reposted a post by his business partner - ResilienceTech co-founder John Doxaras - in which he announced they were bringing the European Defense Tech Hackathon to Athens in February:
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European Defense Tech Hackathon – Athens · Luma | John Doxaras
When we started ResilienceTech with Stavros Messinis six months ago, we couldn’t have imagined the scale of the journey ahead. 🚀 Inspired by the harsh realities on the "unmanned Ukrainian frontlines", our vision of organizing modern military forces and armies with a startup mindset is being...
Stavros Messinis is listed as one of the organisers, alongside European Defense Tech Hub Co-Founder Benjamin Wolba and Mariia Onufriievych, a Ukrainian software engineer that recently joined EDTH in Berlin in a Sales & Operations role:
European Defense Tech Hackathon – Athens · Luma
Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 120+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on…luma.com
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Around the same time, Stavros Messinis posted about his rather spontaneous, yet very successful collaboration with the “super-talented OHB Hellas team and their exceptional leadership”, which ultimately led to today’s LinkedIn post I shared earlier:
Proud to share a small but meaningful milestone for our team today! What started as a collaboration suggestion on Tuesday turned into a successful airborne test today, Thursday - flying an… | Stavros Messinis
Proud to share a small but meaningful milestone for our team today! What started as a collaboration suggestion on Tuesday turned into a successful airborne test today, Thursday - flying an experimental neuromorphic image-classification device on one of our UAVs together with OHB Hellas, the...
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Sounds like both sides consider it a fruitful encounter indeed!
Shortly after, he also shared with his LinkedIn network that ResilienceTech had acquired another Greek company: Flybot (https://flybot.gr/en/about-us-2/):
Resilience Tech: Εξαγοράζει την ελληνική Flybot και αλλάζει το παιχνίδι στα drones - STARTUPPER | Stavros Messinis
LFG. Some important news to share. We acquired Flybot, one of Greece’s prime DJI service providers and a great example of true dual-use innovation in one of the most competitive domains today: drones and FPVs - serving both defense and civil protection. With Flybot joining the ResilienceTech...
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Yesterday, ResilienceTech posted:
Indigenous FPV Drone Software Stack Developed in Greece for Armed Forces | ResilienceTech posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Over the past months, a small team from ResilienceTech and Flybot has been deep in the weeds developing an indigenous flight control software stack for FPV drones - built in Greece. It will be augmented by an indigenous hardware stack in the coming weeks too. Beyond the specs and the...
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So it definitely appears worth keeping an eye on Stavros Messinis and ResilienceTech now that they have worked with OHB Hellas by jointly “flying an experimental neuromorphic image-classification device” (-> Akida onboard!) on one of their UAVs, which proved to be a win-win situation.
And it doesn’t seem far-fetched to imagine that Stavros Messinis as one of the organisers of the upcoming EDTH in Athens may have excitedly invited his new friends from OHB Hellas to join the hackathon next month…
Bingo!
OHB Hellas engineers Giannis Panagiotopoulos and Niki Doulou - both of whom were recently involved in creating the Hummingbird demonstrator, a small drone that combines a UAV platform provided by Stavros Messinis from Resilience Tech with Akida for image classification(“We just flew neuromorphic AI on a small UAV - onboard, in real time, with very low power.”) - gave a presentation on Neuromorphic Computing at the European Defense Hackathon in Athens on 27 February:
“… We thought about leveraging our experience and knowledge in space systems and the way that the data should be processed on a satellite that led us to think that a neuromorphic computer would fit perfectly on a drone…”
[The video goes on for about 7 more minutes.]
“… And I’m glad to say that maybe the next stage is for us to use an event-based camera in order to proceed with a more sophisticated solution about detecting with a drone something coming from [? unintelligible to me - the automatic transcript says “from the air”].”
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The OHB Hellas team at the European Defense Tech Hackathon Athens 2026:
Giannis Panagiotopoulos (Space ML Engineer), Niki Doulou (Embedded Software Engineer) and Kyriakos Mimikos (Space Systems Engineer & Business Development Officer).
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Currently under construction
:A new OHB Hellas webpage, dedicated to the recently developed Hummingbird demonstrator, which sprang from a very spontaneous collaboration between three of their Orbital High-Performance Computing (Orbital-HPC ) researchers and the team around Stavros Messinis from Resilience Tech six weeks ago
.When you google “OHB Hellas Hummingbird”, the first result that comes up is this:
However, this specific “Products and Services” subpage is not yet accessible.
From the text snippet visible on Google we can gather that OHB Hellas clearly marks Hummingbird as experimental*, so I expect the webpage to go live long before Hummingbird might become a commercial product one day, similarly to the OHB Hellas GIASaaS (Global Instant Satellite as a Service) concept website (https://giasaas.eu):
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-462394
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-476913
*Note the use of the term“vision”.
As for the reason why OHB Hellas have decided to keep their “vision for the future of embedded intelligence for drones” under wraps for the time being, we can only speculate.
Maybe the OHB Hellas Orbital HPC team are working on a refined version of Hummingbird before they will release more info? After all, it took the researchers from OHB Hellas and Resilience Tech merely two days to proceed from a collaboration suggestion to a successful airborne test with Akida performing image classification onboard the small UAV:
Proud to share a small but meaningful milestone for our team today! What started as a collaboration suggestion on Tuesday turned into a successful airborne test today, Thursday - flying an… | Stavros Messinis
Proud to share a small but meaningful milestone for our team today! What started as a collaboration suggestion on Tuesday turned into a successful airborne test today, Thursday - flying an experimental neuromorphic image-classification device on one of our UAVs together with OHB Hellas, the...
Another potential reason (although less likely IMO) for continuing to keep the Hummingbird webpage hidden from public view for some time longer:
At the European Defense Tech Hackathon in Athens last week, Giannis Panagiotopoulos from OHB Hellas told the audience during his presentation on neuromorphic computing that they were also looking into adding a neuromorphic camera in order to create a more sophisticated solution for their drone to perform image detecting tasks:
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