Mr. Gabriel Rene reports

VERSES EXPANDS AUTONOMOUS DRONE GOVERNANCE INFRASTRUCTURE POWERED BY KOSM TO MILAN, ITALY

Verses AI Inc. has successfully completed its urban air mobility (UAM) demonstrations in Milan, Italy.

As part of Flying Forward 2020 (FF2020), a European Commission-funded special research and innovation project developing urban air mobility infrastructure, and in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Technologies in Health and Well-being of the San Raffaele Hospital (OSR), which is the technological research unit that co-ordinates the activities of the FF2020 living lab in Milan, Verses successfully deployed multiple autonomous drones to deliver medicine in the campus and monitor its perimeter against intruders. Utilizing Verses' real-time mobility portal, powered by the company's operating system for artificial intelligence, KOSM, hospital staff were able to autonomously deliver medicine across campus, and monitor against trespassers on premises.

OSR's demonstrators aim to include an urban air mobility prototype in the hospital's critical infrastructure for delivery, security and maintenance, providing video in support of surveillance and other services located at the hospital. During the demonstrations, the mandated security officers and maintenance appointees can request the drone service to monitor critical areas, while pharmacists can send airlifted medicine to patients in peripheral areas of the campus. These operations are in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and guard the privacy of users. As a result, the system will enable remote human configuration of the most-effective system to: (i) improve the efficiency and timeliness of health services; (ii) expedite maintenance interventions; and (iii) accelerate detection of physical intrusions, thus acting as a deterrent to malicious attacks.

San Raffaele Hospital showcased how drone services can be safely integrated in a hospital environment to conduct autonomous operations for delivering valuable resources and maintaining physical safety on premises. The success of these demonstrations paves the way for implementing even more complex use cases, such as transporting biomedical material among a multitude of clinics, laboratories and facilities at the country level.

"This was an exciting project for Verses, and we appreciate the collaboration with OSR on deploying autonomous drone management for the hospital," said Gabriel Rene, founder and chief executive officer of Verses. "This marks the third of five major demonstrations across European cities before the commercialization phase, which aims to fulfill the long-term vision of the European Commission to enable a 21st-century urban air mobility infrastructure across all of Europe. These autonomous drone activities demonstrate the unique capabilities of KOSM as the basis for this infrastructure."

Verses will continue working with autonomous drone flights operating beyond the visual line of sight through Flying Forward 2020, a collaborative research project comprising 12 global multidisciplinary partners focused on developing a new urban air mobility ecosystem within the geospatial data infrastructure of cities throughout the European Union. The fourth and fifth demonstrations in Oulu (Finland) and Tartu (Estonia) are anticipated to take place in the third quarter of 2023.

About Verses AI Inc.

Verses is a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation artificial intelligence. Modelled after natural systems and the design principles of the human brain and the human experience, Verses' flagship offering, GIA, is an intelligent assistant for everyone, powered by KOSMOS, a network operating system enabling distributed intelligence. Built on open standards, KOSM transforms disparate data into knowledge models that foster trustworthy collaboration between humans, machines and artificial intelligence, across digital and physical domains. Imagine a smarter world that elevates human potential through innovations inspired by nature.

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