Disrupting The Drone Landscape
CEO India|February 2018

The Airobotics automated platform aims to revolutionise the airspace game with an end-to-end base-station and drone solution that automatically launches and lands flying missions with the click of a button

Disrupting The Drone Landscape
As a completely automatic and operated aerial system, Airobotics empowers industrial companies to leverage the power of drones without the need for skilled and expensive drone operators. Airobotics’ platform enables customers to run missions autonomously to monitor, inspect, survey, and secure large industrial facilities and other strategic sites. Airobotics has secured $28.5 million in combined A and B round funding. Round A was led by BlueRun Ventures, followed by a Round B of investments led by CRV. In addition, Airobotics has received investments from Israel Chief Scientists and Silicon Valley’s UpWest Labs, as well as Noam Bardin, the CEO of Waze, and Richard Wooldridge, Google ATAP’s COO.

Airobotics delivers an automatic drone platform capable of executing a nearly infinite number of missions for its operators. By taking the drone pilot and operator out of the equation, Airobotics removes the most expensive and hard to find component of industrial drone operations. The system is comprised of three major components:

OPTIMUS

This one’s a large, high capacity drone capable of flying 30-minute missions while carrying a one-kilogram mission specific payload.

Precise Control: Optimus employs premium military grade avionics for flight performance and reliability.

Payload and Battery Module: Optimus’s payloads and batteries are automatically exchanged with the robotic swapping mechanism, enabling a diversity of payloads and mission types.

Real-Time Video Delivery: Optimus streams video from the drone, providing customers with real-time aerial insight into critical events and increasing their situational awareness.

AIRBASE

Airbase is a completely automated base station from which the Optimus drone launches and lands on its own, without any human intervention.

This story is from the February 2018 edition of CEO India.

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