(Central News Agency Information Service 20240424 11:40:13) The 51st International Sea, Land, and Air Unmanned Vehicles and Self-Driving System Industry Chain Exhibition (XPONENTIAL) 2024 will be held grandly at the San Diego Convention Center in the United States from April 23 to 25, County Chang Weng Zhangliang personally led the effort and, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, led the Asian Drone AI Innovation Application R&D Center (hereinafter referred to as SPACE CHIAYI) to attract manufacturers to the United States to participate in the exhibition, hoping to increase international visibility and create a national drone team (Drone Taiwan). ) and global supply chain cooperation opportunities.
“The most important thing about participating in this exhibition is to show the strength of Taiwan’s drones!” Weng Zhangliang said. On the other hand, we must make friends with the world and learn from the development models of other countries. This is the first time that Asia Innovation Center has participated in an international exhibition. SPACE CHIAYI is Taiwan’s leading base for promoting the drone industry. On August 13, 2022, President Tsai Ing-wen personally presided over the inauguration and announced that Chiayi will become the national drone team. So far, many domestic and foreign manufacturers have joined. The Asia Innovation Center is in In the past two years since its launch, it has become a centralized procurement center for all domestic and foreign drone manufacturers.
At the opening of the Taiwan pavilion on the morning of the 23rd, Jeff Du, commercial officer of the American Institute in Taiwan, and the organization that will host the exhibition next year, Mr. Tom Mitchell, North American general manager of Dusseldorf Messe in Germany, and Heather Lee, CEO of the well-known AUVSI International Unmanned Systems Organization Ms. April Chiang, assistant director of the Export Promotion Division of the Kansas Department of Commerce, and Kimberly Benson, CEO of UAS Center at SBD, which signed an MOU with the UAS Center yesterday, also made special appearances.
Taiwan has an advanced information and communications industry that can supply flight control chips, microprocessing chips, image processing chips, etc. needed for drones. According to the international “Business Intelligence Research Platform in the Drone Field”, Taiwan ranks in the “Drone Readiness Index” (DRI) ranks third in the world, second only to the United Kingdom and Australia. It is obvious that Taiwan has various advantages. Without the red supply chain atmosphere, it declares “Taiwan Can Help” to the world.
Jiang Zhenwei from the Economic Development Department said that the Taiwan pavilion of this exhibition gathered 15 companies to participate in the exhibition, including Matrix Aerospace, Thunder Tiger, Taiwan Hope Innovation, Xinlefei, Tianyuan, Zhifei, China Optoelectronics, Fulandeng, etc. Produce the most solid and advanced achievements; highlights on display at the venue include Long-duration VTOL fixed-wing UAVs such as Jingwei, Leihu’s TM-450 TETTRON micro UAV, TM-450 Hornet Hornet, Zhifei’s TU-30VG vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing UAV, Fulanden’s medium and large vertical take-off and landing UAV, motor and electronic speed controller, Tianyuan Sky Mini, Xinlefei’s high payload UAV A610, China Optoelectronics’ surveillance and reconnaissance series 2024 H1 UAV, Taiwan Hope Innovation TD100-DSG330 group flight display UAV and TD-TI-320 indoor inspection UAV, demonstrate to the world Taiwan’s UAV R&D capabilities and Technical level.
The Department of Economic Development pointed out that the XPONENTIAL exhibition this time participated in has a history of more than 40 years. It is the largest and most authoritative exhibition in the unmanned vehicle industry and has great business opportunities. This time, manufacturers stationed in Asia Innovation Center will participate in the exhibition. , hoping to communicate and cooperate with international drone-related industries, enter the international supply chain market, and become the best partner of the United States in Asia.
