Did You Bring the Batteries?

Curt Lary from Hextronics talks about the universal drone-in-the-box. Having nailed the core requirements of a nest (the box), including enclosure, HVAC, opening and closing, charging, infrastructure, and command and control uplink, he could then configure it for a wide variety of drones. Scalability and cost-effectiveness are the key benefits, and the system is configurable for a wide range of UAVs.

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Curt Lary - CEO and Lead Engineer, Hextronics

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In this episode of Did You Bring the Batteries, we welcome Edwin Sanchez from Votix, the groundbreaking platform changing the world of drone automation. Votix is a hardware-agnostic solution that delivers comprehensive drone automation, orchestration and remote operation capabilities. Our discussion covers effective strategies for managing integrated systems, live streaming flight videos to anyone, anywhere, remotely operating drones, risk reduction, and more. 

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Edwin Sanchez - CTO, Votix

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Josh Ogden of AVSS joins us in this episode to discuss urban drone operations and the advancements and challenges surrounding their integration into our cities.

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Josh Ogden - Co-founder and CEO, Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions

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In this episode, we launch the RMUS Autonomy Lab. To mark this special occasion, we speak with two of our Lab partners, Johann Beukes (Levatas) and Scott Nokleby (Ontario Tech University), about drone autonomy and AI applications.

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Johann Beukes - Levatas, Chief AI Officer
Scott Nokleby - Ontario Tech University, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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This week the team looks at remotely operated vehicles used for inspection in dark, dirty, dangerous places humans don't want to go. That's right, underwater inspection. Our guest is Sam Macdonald whose curiosity about what lay beneath the waves of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay led her to co-found Deep Trekker, a global leader in submersible ROVs, utility vehicles and pipe crawlers.

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Sam Macdonald - President, Deep Trekker

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In the decade since writing the first SFOC to fly a drone in about 2012, Michael Cohen has been keeping pace with the rapidly evolving UAS industry, transforming Qii.AI into an artificial intelligence development company that takes building inspection to another level.

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This episode's cast includes:

Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Michael Cohen - CEO, Qii.AI

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A legend in the aviation world, Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways and the show Ice Pilots NWT, joins us this week to discuss UASs from the point of view of manned-craft aviators. Mikey talks about operating modern UASs around an airport, the realities of automating cargo flights, and the many unexpected ways drones have changed the world.

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This episode's cast includes:

Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
Mikey McBryan - General Manager, Buffalo Airways

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In this episode of Did you Bring the Batteries?  we discuss Fire AI and how this program can be used to help track forest fires quicker and more accurately by deploying drones; however, not until we discuss jumping out of perfectly good planes over raging fires, flying BVLOS in restricted airspace, and the way drones in general can help manage the unpredictability of forest fire season.

Before we delve into Fire AI, we give you all the details, and our thoughts, on the recently released Mavic 3 Enterprise and Mavic 3 Thermal.

We also had a quick on-air podcast planning session and decided our end-of-year event will be the second installment of the Blue sUAS round-up. Listen to the 2021 Blue sUAS round-up in two parts The Great Blue sUAS Test (Part 1) and The Great Blue sUAS Test (Part 2), along with the rest of our back catalogue.

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This episode's cast includes:

Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
Robert Atwood - Co-Creator of Fire AI, Hummingbird Drones Inc.

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Kevin and Fraser recap the best things they saw at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, including Ascent AeroSystems's new nano-sized coaxial drone, big drones that fold up and fit into backpacks, rugged drones coming out of India, the upcoming DJI dock, using video to capture datasets, Parrot tactical mapping, and the other noteworthy things we got our hands on at the show.

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This episode's cast includes:

Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS

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This week the team is joined by drone media mogul Dawn Zoldi. The Dawn of the drone industry gives our team some tips on how to grow a media empire, what the next big drone trends are, who to keep an eye on, which companies will have the biggest impact on the industry in the short term, and what can be done to control drone traffic when drones become as popular as cars. We also give our thoughts on DJI's new quadcopter the DJI Avata. 

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This episode's cast includes:

Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
Dawn Zoldi - CEO, P3 Tech Consulting

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