Building USA-made drones; helping eng teams perform.
Interim Head of Engineering at @Material_HM
former CTO @earthgrid_io; Amazon Robotics, Drones, and more.
We're working with a partner with over 4000 pilots. They need highly integrated job dispatching and highly integrated deliverable uploading (photos, videos, lidar data).
Here's a demo of us hitting their jobs API, downloading a set of jobs, performing detailed routing, and executing the missions.
A couple of high points:
- This is our 100% custom Controller application (which runs on our real and custom hardware!)
- We're just getting started, there's a lot more work and polish needed, but this is 100x better than alternatives on the market
- We've got LOIs signed, in progress, and several customers BEGGING for these features.
- This is a live API demo (with simulated aircraft)
We can pause in the middle of a mission, return home, change batteries, swap SD cards, and continue the mission (!!!!). Anyone who has operated drones at scale knows this is a major pain currently with US open source-based drones!
- This is just the starting point. It's only going to get better from here as we vertically integrate across everything.
- V1 drone test flights and sales coming soon.
- MADE IN AMERICA.
We're building features customers actually need and want.
Join us on the journey!
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