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Thanks To This Drone, Washing Buildings Just Got Easier: Andre Asher, CEO Lucid Drone Technology
In this Drone Radio Show Podcast, host Randy Goers talks with Andrew Asher, Founder and CEO of Lucid Drone Technologies. Lucid Drone is a North Carolina-based company that builds industrial spraying drones for labour-intensive tasks. The company’s goal is simple – provide customers with a safer, faster and smarter alternative to traditional spraying methods while reducing costs and adding top-line revenue.
Advanced Air Mobility and BVLOS Update
This Week’s Key Question “What’s the Latest Coming Out of the Commercial Drone Industry?” This Week’s Guest Lisa Ellman is Executive Director of the Commercial Drone Alliance, an independent non-profit organization led by key members of the commercial drone industry. The Alliance advocates for the commercial use of drones by reducing barriers to enable the technology.
Thanks To This Drone, Washing Buildings Just Got Easier
This Week’s Key Question “What’s Better Than Two Men on A High Scaffold?” This Week’s Guest Andrew Ashur is Founder and CEO of Lucid Drone Technologies, a North Carolina based company that builds industrial spraying drones for labor intensive tasks. The company’s goal is simple – provide customers with a safer, faster and smarter alternative to traditional spraying methods while reducing costs and adding top-line revenue.
See You At The Commercial UAV Expo
This Week’s Key Question “What’s on tap for this year’s Commercial UAV Expo?” This Week’s Guest Jeremiah Karpowicz is Editorial Director of the Commercial UAV News, a leading source of news, insight and analysis for the commercial drone market. The Commercial UAV News focuses on the use of drone technology in the heavy commercial sectors, such as surveying & mapping, civil infrastructure, power & utilities, mining, construction, emergency response and precision agriculture.
Mapping Volcanos With Drones
In this Drone Radio Show Podcast, host Randy Goers talks to David Adjiashvili, Founder and Vice-President of Products at Drone Harmony. Drone Harmony is a software as a service company that automates mission planning in the most challenging vertical inspection scenarios. Their software enables cost-effective deployment of drone technology in industries where existing technologies are unable to deliver. And it enables pilots with minimal training to collect high-quality, reproducible data.
Dinner And A Drone (Delivery)
This Week’s Key Question “When you’re craving dinner and in a hurry, who do you call?” This Week’s Guests Yariv Bash is the CEO and Co-founder of Flytrex, an on-demand drone delivery company . Flytrex provides a direct-to-consumer autonomous drone delivery service that lets retailers and quick-service restaurants cater to a wider customer base with faster, safer and more economical on-demand deliveries than ever before.
AI & Drone Powered Facade Inspections
This Week’s Key Question “How do you simplify material-failure detection?” This Week’s Guests Jonathan Ehrlich is COO of T2D2, a software-as-a-service company that that uses artificial intelligence to identify and assess damage and deterioration to buildings and structures. Before becoming COO, Jonathan served as the Director of Strategy, Corporate Development and Partnerships at ButterflyMX, a leader in real estate software technology.
Ten Minutes with Auterion's CEO, Lorenz Meier
This Week’s Key Question “If we had 10 minutes to spend with Auterion’s CEO, what would we learn?” This Week’s Guests From the floor of the AUVSI Xponential drone conference in Orlando, Florida, I speak with Lorenz Meier, CEO of Auterion. Auterion is the premier end-to-end operating system for commercial drones, based on open-standards, flexibility and choice. As many of you know, in 2008 Lorenz created and released the PX4 autonomous drone autopilot to the open source community.
Ethics and Drone A.I.
This Week’s Key Question “Do Autonomous Drones pose ethical questions?” This Week’s Guest Jenn Player is Director of Regulatory Affairs at Skydio, the leading American drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight. The company leverages breakthrough AI to create the world’s most intelligent flying machines for use by consumers, enterprises, and government customers.
Adding Value Through Innovation
This Week’s Key Question “How Does Drone Technology Deliver Value?” This Week’s Guest Tom Walker is founder and CEO of DroneUp, the the leading complete drone services provider, transforming businesses and government organizations with drone technology solutions.
Enabling Future BVLOS Operations
This Week’s Key Question “What’s involved in performing validation and testing of BVLOS and Safety protocols?” This Week’s Guest Andy Thurling is Chief Technology Officer of the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance. NUAIR, as its commonly known, is a New York-based nonprofit with a mission to safely integrate uncrewed aircraft systems into the national airspace, enabling scalable, economically viable commercial drone operations.
Getting Your Message Out
Dawn Zoldi is a retired Colonel from the United States Air Force. She is also a licensed attorney and the founder and CEO of P3 Tech Consulting. P3 Tech Consulting connects people who have a passion for advanced tech platforms with the plans, programs, policies and information they need to succeed.
Building a Better Flight Controller
This Week’s Key Question “What’s the latest in UAS Flight Controllers?” This Week’s Guests Kirill Shilov is Founder and CEO of Sky-Drones Technologies. Sky-Drones creates professional full stack UAV avionics solutions, such as flight control, ground control and communication systems as well as a cloud based management platform. The company helps its global customers build and operate drones for security and commercial applications.
Can a drone help build a better solar roof?
“When we can show to customers the benefit of having a clear picture of what’s taking place on their roofs, in a way where nobody else is doing that, and we can show them that we catch things, it sets us apart where the homeowner wants that now, because the other guy isn’t going tell them what’s on the roof and homeowners aren’t going to get on a dangerous roof.”
Protecting Cities from Drone Incursions
This Week’s Key Question “Is there a way to protect whole cities from drone incursions?” This Week’s Guest Aaditya Devarakonda (AD) is CEO of Dedrone, a world leader in protecting organizations frommalicious drones by securing the airspace using advanced hardware and software technology.As CEO of Dedrone, AD oversees the company’s global growth and continues to build on its reputation as the market leader in smart airspace security.
NestGen: Virtual Summit Focused on Drone Autonomy
This Week’s Key Question “Where can you go to get the latest on UAS autonomous operations?” This Week’s Guests Achal Negi is Head of Business Development for Flytbase What We Learn On February 22nd, Flytbase will present NestGen, the first, all on-line summit on drone automation. The event will bring together leaders in the UAS automation sector to share experiences and technologies.
A Low-Cost Drone-in-a-Box Option
his Week’s Key Question “What’s the latest in drone-in-a-box solutions? This Week’s Guests Achal Negi is head of business development for Flytebase and Curt Lary is lead engineer and CEO for Hextronics. Flytbase is a Silicon Valley company that has build the world’s first internet-of-drones platform to automate and scale drone operations. Hextronics is an engineering and manufacturing company that designs and produces scalable autonomous drone hardware solutions in a cost-effective manner.
Protecting Against Next Generation Drone Threats
This Week’s Key Question “How Can We Protect Against Drone Swarms and Other Next Generation Threats?” This Week’s Guests Ken Geyer is CEO and co-founder of Liteye Systems, Inc and Keven Gambold, CEO and co-founder of Unmanned Experts. Liteye Systems is a world leader and technology solutions manufacturer and integrator of military and commercial Counter UAS systems.
The Power of 3D Models to Communicate Data
THIs Week’s Key Question “How can using 3D model technology improve workflows of drone manufactures? This Week’s Guests Patricia Hume is CEO of Canvas GFX, a company that develops visual communication and collaboration solutions. Canvas GFX is trusted by leading brands from verticals in aerospace and defense, automotive, commercial and domestic appliance, energy, and education.
The Drone Industry in 2021 - DRS Guests Perspective
This Week’s Key Question “What was 2021 like for the Drone Industry?” This Week’s Guests The best way to answer this question is to hear from some of those who helped shaped the industry in 2021. I’ve compiled a string of audio clips from my guests that provides an great image of the past year.
The Highest Level of Aerial Autonomy
This Week’s Key Question “What does it mean to achieve the highest level of aerial Autonomy?” This Week’s Guest Nader Elm is CEO and Founder of EXYN Technologies. EXYN Technologies pioneers autonomous robot systems for complex, GPS-denied environments. The company’s full-stack solution enables flexible deployment of single or multi-robots that can intelligently navigate and dynamically adapt to complex environments in real time.
A Global Company’s Perspective on UAS Traffic Management:
This Week’s Key Question What is Evolving in the Global UAS Traffic Management Sector?” This Week’s Guest Amit Ganjoo is CEO and Founder of Anra Technologies, an Award Winning Drone Operations company based in Washington DC. The company’s award winning Platform is called SmartSkies™ is used by multiple commercial and government entities for running and managing commercial drone operations.
How is Noaa Using Drones?
How is Noaa Using Drones?
Forming Strategic Partnerships for C-UAS
This Week’s Key Question “How are companies responding to UAS threats worldwide?” This Week’s Guests Lucas Le Bell is CEO and Co-Founder of Cerbair, a counter company protects sensitive sites and events from dangerous drone activity. Michael Monnik is a cyber security consultant and founder of DroneSec a drone-security service that provides organizations with life-saving alerts and data on drone threats to their assets.
The Value of LIDAR
HIs Week’s Key Question “How can LIDAR provide value to organizations?” This Week’s Guests Lukas Fraser is a LiDAR Specialist at the Geospatial Group of NV5. NV5 is a provider of engineering and consulting services to public and private sector clients. With offices nationwide and abroad, NV5 helps clients plan, design, build, test, certify, and operate projects that improve the communities where we live and work. At NV5, Lukas creates engineering-grade 3D mapping products from LiDAR imagery.
Extending The Value of UAS With Hybrid Propulsion Systems
This Week’s Key Question “How can hybrid powered drones benefit enterprise operations?“ This Week’s Guests Bill Fredericks is CEO of Advanced Aircraft company. Advanced Aircraft Company, or AAC for short, designs long endurance hybrid electric UAS, targeting commercial and military markets. Advanced Aircraft Company’s design philosophy is simple: fast, innovative, and safe.
Delivering a Full-Stack UAS Solution
HIs Week’s Key Question “What are AgEagle’s plans to serve the Drone Industry?” This Week’s Guests Brandon Torres Declet is CEO of AgEagle, a leading provider of full-stack drone solutions for customers worldwide in the energy, construction, agriculture, and government verticals. The company designs and delivers best-in-class drones, sensors, and software that solve significant problems.
Drone Radio Show: Drones Over India - The Story of IdeaForge: Ankit Mehta, CEO on Apple Podcasts
36 min Is India the next hot spot for unmanned business? Ankit Mehta is Co-founder & CEO of ideaForge, India’s largest manufacturer of drones for defense, homeland security and industrial applications. Founded in 2007, the company has a consistent market share of over 90% in the Security & Surveillance segment. It is also the first company to indigenously develop and manufacture Vertical Take-off and Landing UAVs in India.
Using Drones to Measure Airport Landing Systems
This Week’s Key Question “Can a drone help to speed up the flight check of landing systems at airports?” This Week’s Guests Vitaly Munirov is CEO of Cursir, a Russian based company that produces innovative drone-based solutions for flight inspection of navigation and landing systems at airports. The company uses UAVs to calibrate, check and configure navigation aids at Russian airports resulting in huge cost savings to air traffic management organizations.
Using Multi-Drone Software to Scale Enterprise Drone Operations
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Part II: Trends Shaping the Drone Industry in 2021
This Week’s Key Question “What’s trends are driving the Drone Industry in 2021?” This Week’s Guests Michael Blades is Vice President of Aerospace, Defense and Security Americas Region for Frost and Sullivan. Based in San Antonio, Frost and Sullivan provides a comprehensive range of research services and state-of-the-art analytical tools to enable decision-makers to use marketing information in more innovative and meaningful ways.
Trends Shaping the Drone Industry in 2021
This Week’s Key Question “What’s trends are driving the Drone Industry in 2021?” This Week’s Guests Michael Blades is Vice President of Aerospace, Defense and Security Americas Region for Frost and Sullivan. Based in San Antonio, Frost and Sullivan provides a comprehensive range of research services and state-of-the-art analytical tools to enable decision-makers to use marketing information in more innovative and meaningful ways.
The Benefits of an Open Source Drone Ecosystem
This Week’s Key Question “Can an Open-Source Ecosystem Provide Enhanced Drone Solutions?” This Week’s Guests Romeo Durscher is Vice President of Public Safety at Auterion, the premier end-to-end operating systems for commercial drones, based on open-standards, flexibility and choices. In 2011, co-founder Lorenz Meier created PX4, the world’s most widely used open-source flight controller for drones and other unmanned vehicles. Today, it is the core of Auterion’soperating systems.
Romeo Durscher, Auterion on Apple Podcasts
37 min Can an Open-Source Ecosystem Provide Enhanced Drone Solutions? Romeo Durscher is Vice President of Public Safety at Auterion, the premier end-to-end operating systems for commercial drones, based on open-standards, flexibility and choices. In 2011, co-founder Lorenz Meier created PX4, the world’s most widely used open-source flight controller for drones and other unmanned vehicles. Today, it is the core of Auterion’s operating systems.
How Power Companies Use Drones to Reduce the Risk of Wildfires
This Week’s Key Question “Can Drones Keep Power Companies Safe From Wildfires?” This Week’s Guests Chris Beaufait serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for Sharper Shape — the market leader in delivering transformative inspection solutions for the utility industry. Chris is a proven business leader with extensive global experience and joined Sharper Shape from his role as Chief Operating Officer of Sarcos Robotics.
From Drone Crasher to Drone Pilot
THis Week’s Key Question “Ever wonder if you could be a drone racing pilot?” This Week’s Guests Susan Smith is an FPV drone racing pilot from San Diego. She is a member of the Safety Third Racing Club and the team pilot for NewBeeDrone, a company that is dedicated to supporting newcomers to the FPV drone racing world. Susan picked up drone a few years ago, and after a few months of crashing and thrashing, she found her groove and today she is one of the top female drone racing pilots in the world.
Bringing Down A Rogue Drone With One Shot
This Week’s Key Question “How many tries does it take to bring down a rogue drone?” This Week’s Guests Sharone Aloni is vice-president of research and development of Smart Shooter, a world-class designer, developer, and manufacturer of innovative fire control systems. What We Learn The company’s SMASH Fire Control system significantly increases the accuracy and lethality of small arms and provides end-users with a “One Shot – One Hit” capability across multiple mission areas.
Are you ready for the Boston Drone Film Festival?
HIs Week’s Key Question “What do we need to know about attending the Boston Drone Film Festival?” This Week’s Guests Jovan Tanasijevic and Jamie Wiener are with the Boston Drone Film Festival. Jovan is founder of the festival and director at Above Summit, a production studio specializing in drone cinematography. Jamie is the Festival Director. The Boston Drone Film Festival celebrates the creative pursuit of international drone cinematographic and drone photographers from around the world.
A Glimpse Into Terra Drone
THIs Week’s Key Question “What Are Terra Drone’s Plans for Inspections & UTM?” This Week’s Guests Teppei Seki is Chief Operating Officer at Terra Drone, a leading commercial drone services company with headquarters in Japan and presence in more than 20 countries. Terra Drones provides innovative drone solutions like aerial surveys, infrastructure inspection, thermal mapping, UAV data processing for a wide variety of industries.
Stopping a Rogue Drone is As Easy as 1-2-3
Opening by Amari: Oh, there’s nothing like drone racing. It is high speed is like high-intensity every single heat. Every single time I’ll go to different places and I’ll see people flipping through the TV and whatever drone racing’s on it. It always makes them stop. Even if they have no idea what it is like, what the heck is this Intro: You’re listening to the drum radio show podcast, the show about drones and the people. He used them for business fun and research hosted by Randy goers.
How can small U.S. drone manufactures compete on the world stage?
HIs Week’s Key Question “Can small U.S. drone manufactures compete on the world stage?” This Week’s Guests George Matus is CEO and founder of Teal Drones, a U.S. manufacturer of specialty drones for the commercial and military sector. Based in Salt Lake City, Teal is focused on pioneering new uses for drone systems beyond the “flying camera” applications so often seen in use today.
Dragonflies and drones
THis Week’s Key Question “What Do Dragonflies Have to do With Drones?” This Week’s Guests Alex Caccia is a serial entrepreneur, with start-ups in hardware, software and sports equipment. He is also the CEO of Animal Dynamics, a spinout company from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. The company designs super-efficient systems inspired by the deep study of evolutionary biomechanics and based on the movements of high-performance animals.
Drones and the Geospatial Ecosystem
THis Week’s Key Question “What do you get when you cross the built environment with geospatial technologies?” This Week’s Guests For that question we head to Portland, Maine to speak with Jeremiah Karpawicz, Editorial Director and Lee Corkhill, Group Events Director for Diversified Communications. Diversified Communications is a leading international media company with a portfolio of face-to-face exhibitions and conferences, online communities, and digital and print publications.
How Drones Are Preserving Free TV Broadcast Frequency
This Week’s Key Question “Can Drone help in averting a TV Frequency Famine?” This Week’s Guest Phil Larsen is Vice President of the QForce, the Airborne Division of Q communications. QComm is a professional engineering company that assists TV Stations in converting analog to digital operations, ensuring compliance with transmission regulations governing signal strength and reach. This is all part of the FCC “Repack” program.
betting on the Drone Racing League
Opening by Amari: Oh, there’s nothing like drone racing. It is high speed is like high-intensity every single heat. Every single time I’ll go to different places and I’ll see people flipping through the TV and whatever drone racing’s on it. It always makes them stop. Even if they have no idea what it is like, what the heck is this Intro: You’re listening to the drum radio show podcast, the show about drones and the people. He used them for business fun and research hosted by Randy goers.
Using Solar Energy To Power a Drone Network
HIs Week’s Key Question “Can clean energy power our drones? This Week’s Guests Desmond Wheatley is CEO of BEAM Global, a CleanTech leader that produces innovative, sustainable technology for electric vehicle charging, outdoor media, and energy security. It does this without the construction, disruption, risks and costs of grid-tied solutions.
Do States and Cities have Role in Managing Low Altitude Airspace?
HIs Week’s Key Question “Should States and Cities get more involved in managing low altitude airspace? This Week’s Guests Brent Skorup is senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas—bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems.
Jet Quad - A Jet Powered Drone
HIs Week’s Key Question “Is a jet powered drone the future of medical supply delivery? This Week’s Guests Alexander Taits is CEO & Founder of Fusion Flight, a manufacturer of the Jet Quad, the world’s smallest and most powerful jet-powered drone with vertical take-off and landing capabilities. It is like an unmanned, scaled-down version of the Harrier Jump-Jet. With its high speed capability, the company aims to be the leader of autonomous UAV medical delivery.
Vantis - A Drone Highway In the Sky
HIs Week’s Key Question “Are we close to seeing drone highways in the skies?” This Week’s Guests Nicholas Flom, Executive Director for the Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site. The North Plans UAS Test Site was designated by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct critical research into the certification and operational requirements necessary to safely integrate UAS into the national airspace system.
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