Recent context: ARK's Modalix bundle puts flight control and 50-TOPS-class edge AI on one carrier
ARK Electronics introduced a Jetson PAB V3 bundle pairing its ARKV6X flight controller with SiMa.ai's Modalix system-on-module. ARK and specialist reporting list 50 TOPS of AI performance at under 10 W for the compute module, while the assembled stack with heatsink and flight controller weighs 196.5 g without an optional SSD.
Mon, 28 Sep 2026
Integrating flight control and inference hardware into one mechanical and electrical stack can simplify autonomy prototypes, but it also concentrates interface and thermal constraints in one assembly.
Read the integration notes before designing the harness. ARK says flight-controller I/O is exposed through 40-pin Pico-Clasp connectors, and the Modalix configuration does not provide every interface available on an NVIDIA Jetson setup.