Cortex AI is an open, modular autonomy platform for navigation and mapping. Credit: EmesentEmesent, an autonomous mapping company, has won a US$2 million grant from the Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program to develop and commercialize its Cortex AI platform. Cortex AI is the company’s autonomous intelligence system to map GPS-denied and hazardous environments, like underground mines and tunnels. The news follows a recent US$17 million funding package to increase production capacity for the company’s Hovermap ST-X, an autonomous drone designed to operate on Cortex AI. Cortex AI is the engine that makes this scale possible,” Kendoul added.