Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) manufacturers are beginning to realize that such a multi-purpose product requires a more open development platform – as well as expanding their own customer base, it expands the opportunities for drone implementation within the IoT. Chinese drone vendor DJI is the most recent to open up, unveiling its Manifold hardware developer board running Ubuntu 14.04 and powered by an Nvidia Tegra K1, in collaboration with Canonical, the company that pushes the Ubuntu Linux distro. The Manifold module fits into the Matrice 100 drone, and will allow developers to experiment with adding components to a capable UAV platform. DJI says the Manifold has obvious AI applications in machine learning and computer vision, but say that the amount…