Voice-Activated Software Guides Drones Hands Free
4/15/2025
By Joanna Ye
LEESBURG, Virginia — Software company Primordial Labs has developed a human-machine interface called Anura that allows warfighters to operate drones through speech commands.
The objective of Anura is “not so much making the machine more human, but making the mechanism of interaction with the machine more human,” said Primordial Labs’ CEO and co-founder Lee Ritholtz during a demonstration of the technology.
Anura streamlines control of uncrewed systems by processing the operator’s natural language inputs and determining their intent to execute the objective. The interface’s use of natural language means it does not require any memorization of keywords or phrases, making the interaction between the user and the drone more intuitive, he said.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2025/4/15/voice-activated-software-guides-drones-hands-free
