SiMa.ai and ARK Electronics Partner to Accelerate Intelligent, Autonomous Drones

Production-ready joint solution to speed development and deployment of affordable, high-performance drones for UAS, industrial, and agriculture

SAN JOSE, Calif. and SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SiMa.ai, a leader in Physical AI, and ARK Electronics, a designer and manufacturer of high-quality, made-in-the-USA drone and robotics electronics, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of next-generation autonomous drones. The companies are launching the ARK-SiMa.ai Modalix MLSoC Bundles – production-ready, affordable, high-performance solutions designed to simplify the development of intelligent drones for commercial and defense markets.

The SiMa.ai Physical AI platform combines hardware and software in one purpose-built offering: the Modalix System-on-Module (SoM), built on the Modalix MLSoC, and Palette Neat, an agentic development environment that compresses AI development from months to days. By pairing SiMa.ai's platform with ARK Electronics technology drones and robotics expertise, the partnership delivers a uniquely complete Physical AI foundation, priced for mass-market commercial, industrial, agriculture, and defense deployment at scale.

"The drone market is at an inflection point, and winning programs will be built on platforms that pair globally trusted hardware with best-in-class AI compute," said Durga Peddireddy, VP of Strategic Business Development and Partnerships, SiMa.ai. "With ARK Electronics, we are delivering the ecosystem a complete US-made, affordable solution for intelligent autonomy without compromising on performance or trust."

"Autonomous intelligence is the next frontier for drones across defense, agriculture, and commercial applications," said Alex Klimaj, CEO, ARK Electronics. "By building and validating this joint solution on SiMa.ai's Physical AI platform, we give our customers a purpose-built Physical AI foundation, with exceptional performance per watt and familiar form factors, so they can develop faster and deploy at scale."

The Modalix SoM is form-factor compatible with the industry's leading GPU-based edge platform. For the drone and robotics ecosystem, this compatibility accelerates development, de-risks design, and shortens time-to-market, while gaining higher performance, lower power, and lower cost in a best-in-class SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) foundation. ARK Electronics is central to delivering this benefit, having built, validated, and brought the joint solutions to the drone ecosystem.

Availability

The ARK-SiMa.ai Modalix MLSoC Bundles are available today to qualified drone OEMs and system integrators at: https://go.sima.ai/ark-bundles.

About ARK Electronics

ARK Electronics is a provider of mission-critical, made-in-the-USA drone and robotics electronics, including NDAA-compliant, Blue UAS-listed flight controllers, GPS modules, sensors, and embedded computers for defense, commercial, and research applications. A Dronecode Foundation member and ArduPilot partner, ARK Electronics is committed to open standards and trusted, domestically manufactured hardware. Learn more at www.arkelectron.com.

About SiMa.ai

SiMa.ai is a leader in Physical AI, delivering a purpose-built, software-centric platform that brings best-in-class performance, power efficiency, and ease of use to Physical AI applications. The company is focused on scaling Physical AI across robotics, automotive, drones, industrial automation, aerospace and defense, smart vision, and healthcare. Learn more at www.sima.ai.

Media Contacts

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