Learn about the future of drones and their impact - part III

UPDATE:

Ori Aphek who is the founder of Dronomy will share how Dronoomy is building autonomous drones. Dronomy is a new venture intending to revolutionize the way people and businesses use drones. Today, using drones requires skill, which prevent many of the use cases to materialize. Autonomy is key to unlock many of the commercial and consumer applications which avoid the use of drones today. Most commercial and consumer use cases for drones are outdoors, in altitudes of tens of feet, and flight speeds which result in stopping range of tens of feet. Obstacles such as buildings, trees and powerlines must be avoided. The obstacle detection range of technologies such as eBumpers (PanoptesUAV) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cr1kDBv3gY) and RealSense (Intel) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuXp_mnDH6w) is 10-20 feet – to short for outdoor applications. Based on its long-range obstacle detection technology, Dronomy is developing fully autonomous, cloud connected software for drones. Dronomy-enabled drones will choose their path autonomously, according to the mission requirement, while avoiding obstacles. The user will be able to focus on its mission - photography (stills or video), waypoints navigation or self-auto-tracking for sports, while the drone flies itself.

Still on the agenda:

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are inherently different from manned aircraft. Introducing UAS into the US's airspace is challenging for both the FAA and aviation community, because the U.S. has the busiest, most complex airspace in the world. The FAA is taking an incremental approach to safe UAS integration. What does this mean for the start up community? Will regulation open up opportunities for start ups or push them to work in other geographies?

This evening we will try to digest the (little) known so far about the FAA's new guidelines for flying UAS's.

As previous times, those start ups working on drones will be invited to share and tell what they are working on.

Ideas or comments? Drop a message.

Cheers,

Benjamin