Perceptron releases Mk1.5, a 35B embodied AI model driving drones, robots and glasses
Perceptron has released Mk1.5, a 35B-parameter embodied AI model positioned as the "intelligence layer" for embodied agents. Its core selling point is cross-hardware generality: the same model can fly drones, control quadruped robots, and power smart glasses and phones without per-platform retraining, with request completion speed up to 4.7x faster.
Confirmed
- Mk1.5 is a 35B embodied agent model; the company claims up to 4.7x faster request completion
- It supports drones, quadruped robots, smart glasses and phones, plus object tracking, web search, visual reasoning and autonomous sub-agent dispatching, all without platform-specific retraining; the new version adds native audio, video target tracking and tool use, including web search, page reading and spawning sub-agents
- On drones, the flight controller's control interface is exposed as a tool, letting Mk1.5 watch live camera feeds, reason about next actions and execute maneuvers for short-range tasks; the team says it starts with constrained, practical use cases such as home inspection, construction-site mapping and search-and-rescue, emphasizing responsible rollout
Why it matters
- According to @codestar, the team originally aimed to build a world-class image/video VLM, but after adding tool-calling and mixing in traditional LLM-style data such as web search, they unexpectedly found strong cross-task generalization — a single model acting as a universal intelligence layer across embodied hardware. If this path holds, it could substantially cut the adaptation cost of deploying embodied AI across hardware platforms.
2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-26 · 6 related posts
Primary sources
- Perceptron releases Mk1.5, one model to fly drones and control robots — AkshatS07 · 2026-09-25
- Perceptron launches Mk1.5, one embodied AI model for drones, quadrupeds and smart glasses — code_star · 2026-09-26
- Perceptron's Mk1.5 Drone Flies Autonomously by Exposing Flight Controls as Agent Tools — zacharynado · 2026-09-26
- Perceptron releases Mk1.5, a 35B embodied-agent model with up to 4.7x faster task completion — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-09-26