Finally revealing the results of all the hard work the
@warerobotics
team has put in. We've come a long way over the last 5 mo's since our pre-seed (led by
@BloombergBeta
). Peep the video we produced w/
@cevalogistics
and see how our warehouse automation system works! 🤖
@joguinovart
@interesting_aIl
Yes I asked them all to contact their parents so I could get signed waivers, then met all five sets of their parents at different metro stations across Tokyo during my trip. It was exhausting but so glad I did the right thing!
Congratulations to the entire
@SkydioHQ
team on the most impressive drone to launch in years—especially to everyone in manufacturing and supply chain. The unsung heros making this possible.
A startup just posted this Chief-of-Staff (CoS) role with these responsibilities. If you actually fit these then you really, truly, honestly should just start your own company because at this point you're essentially the CEO.
A startup just posted this Chief-of-Staff (CoS) role with these responsibilities. If you actually fit these then you really, truly, honestly should just start your own company because at this point you're essentially the CEO.
Personal news: Announcing
@warerobotics
! Ware is predicated on one simple fact: warehouses should always know where everything is. Mega appreciation for
@minney_cat
+
@BloombergBeta
for recognizing the potential & jumping on this early round 🤗 More here:
Skydio 2 launches — congrats team
@SkydioHQ
!
• 4k60HDR camera
• 23 min flight time
• 50% quieter (it's true)
• 3-axis gimbal
• Now has a physical controller
• Jetson TX2 onboard
• Way "smarter" than DJI Mavic 2
🚁
@culturaltutor
Every single furniture store is currently the exact same taupe/grey/white drab so that homes have become a singular monotone expression of mediocrity that exist purely to please the ‘gram
$131K of net-new bookings just today at
@warerobotics
. I usually keep quiet about all our startup wins but the world needs to know. This tech is real & is delivering actual value to warehouses. Indoor Drones + IoT + CV + Cloud/Edge = just what the supply chain doc ordered 📦
One of the coolest—yet fairly mundane—things in drone software I've seen in the past few months. Quick video demo of
@AirMapIO
's new
@DroneDeploy
integration to submit LAANC requests to
@FAANews
. Very smooth experience showcasing value of technology partnerships. 🛫
It's ludicrous realizing the world's largest brands don't even know how much inventory they have in their own warehouses. In the past 2 decades, facility sizes have grown rapidly but processes have remained stagnant, creating massive gaps. This is what we're solving
@warerobotics
My first event for
@DronesPodcast
was a huge success. Lots of networking, great panelists (
@mooberryj
,
@romeoch
,
@jonomillin
), and attendees with huge passion for the drone industry. Hope to see you at the next one!
Always an inspiring start to the morning coming into our R&D facility seeing the drones resting from their autonomous flights the night before
@warerobotics
Grateful to our fantastic partners,
@SkydioHQ
, trusting us to build a new, industry-defining supply chain product on their platform, Skydio 2. Combining the world's smartest drone with Ware's cutting-edge AI has been a match made in warehouse-heaven 💘
𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴! Looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join us
@warerobotics
in SF. Work at the intersection of flying robots & machine learning for a $1.9 trillion industry. Unique oppty to get in early + make a giant impact. Hit me up! 🚁📦
So close to the 100th episode, I can taste it 👅
Enjoy this one, all about Skydio 2, with none other than
@adampbry
— one of the many geniuses behind
@SkydioHQ
. Also a few namedrops of my own startup,
@warerobotics
, a Skydio partner 🤝
Today,
@DroneDeploy
released their free, semi-annual commercial drone trends report, announcing over 30MM acres of drone data processed since 2015. The platform has also amassed the world's largest drone data repository of 100,000,000+ aerial images
So
@Uber
Elevate revealed how they will fulfill
@UberEats
drone deliveries. Approach is fundamentally different than
@Wing
🚁🥫
@Wing
drones:
* Fly from central hub to restaurant
* Hover & lower winch for resto employee to attach food
* Fly to your home & drop directly—no human
Absolutely cannot wait to see how DJI responds. In the past, they systematically destroyed 3DR & GoPro as they were big threats. Skydio represents an even bigger threat: pricing (cheaper than Mavic), enterprise SDK, smarter than any drone before it, and the crash warranty is 🔥
2013: $5.5k & dozens of hrs researching, buying components globally, programming flight controller + gimbal firmware, many more hrs soldering, enlisting dad's help (NASA engineer), & even installing an "unplanned landing in water" floatation device. Still not as good as 1st Mavic
Some inspiring new Skyport concept designs from
@Uber
Elevate's architectural partners were revealed today at The Uber Elevate Summit 🚁 Some are retrofits of existing infrastructure, others are new construction. Digging the
@BeckGroup
Dallas parking garage retrofit.
Big big big 🏘️🚁
Eagle View has been clamoring for drone tech for years to automate roof inspections (at least since 2015/16). They probably talked to every drone company out there about this and
@SkydioHQ
is the one who could finally deliver.
We are thrilled to announce a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership with
@EagleViewTech
resulting in the largest commercial drone deployment ever!
@SkydioHQ
is disrupting residential roof inspection forever with the power autonomous drones!
#SKYDIO
This data shows why we had such success at
@DroneDeploy
— giving away powerful software for free to hobbyists, letting them experiment & see what's possible commercially. Business use cases permeated into their day jobs. Taking a similar approach at
@warerobotics
for warehousing.
Many industry veterans have countless stories of drone hobbyists using their personal drone for work. We've found that 68% of all drone programs were founded through such unofficial means. We explore the data here -
An action-packed ‘22 kick-off w/ The Ware Force @ HQ last week. This year will be an inflection point for our tech & warehousing as we know it.
P.S. we’re hiring for several roles—come bring diversity to the team & help transform this trillion $ industry!
@warerobotics
Thanks
@adampbry
, I'm excited as well 😉. Been w/ lots of drones in my day so a few 1st impressions on
@SkydioHQ
's R1:
— magnetic battery is a revelation
— flawless firmware update on Android (more than I can say about any/every DJI product)
— prop fasteners are perfection
Something incredible just happened. Never been done before and we got to watch it streamed live. Years in the making across multiple companies, shoving aerial robotics solutions forward—with just a tinge of whiplash. Any guesses? 🤔
This is the beauty of the
@DroneDeploy
App Market ecosystem at work. Integrations with partners like
@ScopitoApS
equate to huge value for end users in nearly any industry using drones today 👏
See how the integration between
@ScopitoApS
+
@DroneDeploy
helped Enhanced Visual use their drones to save 50% of time on inspection imagery analysis 🔎 in this great case study:
2013: what near state-of-the-art drone tech looked like. $5.5k & 40+ hrs of labor. Soldering, programming, sourcing/cobbling together components. Very DIY.
One of most impactful changes today is ubiquity of onboard compute in off-the-shelf platforms (DJI/Skydio) & SDKs/APIs.
It's been pleasantly surprising to be fundraising for the first time and getting such quick responses from VCs on meetings/intros. Not sure if that's a product of years of efficiency on their part (likely) or a reflection of what we're building at
@warerobotics
(🤞).
We're looking for an Autonomy Software Engineer (robotics) at
@warerobotics
🤖
Join us and make drones fly autonomously inside warehouses as we digitize the $8.1 trillion global logistics industry.
The Active Response Gravity Offload System, or ARGOS, demonstrates what it’s like to move in 1/6th the gravity that we’re used to on Earth. This is great practice for astronauts as we prepare to return to the Moon!
#Moon2Mars
#NASASocial
Our startup's name is Ware (
@warerobotics
). A 4-letter, quadruple-entendre:
• 'Ware'houses (our customers)
• "_Ware_ is my inventory?" -asks our customer
• Hard'ware' (drones—our platform for capturing data)
• Soft'ware' (how we provide the answer to customer Q above)
😅
This warehouse was built in 7 mos. Inside it's gorgeous. Facilities like these are popping up everywhere at unprecedented rates. Although they're modern, the work that soon gets done inside (like counting inventory) is manual & stuck in the past. We're fixing this
@warerobotics
.
The Global Warehousing Robotics market is expected to grow at 12% CAGR to $9.5B by 2027. Seems low.
We're seeing incredible interest
@warerobotics
from global orgs wanting to integrate automation into their facilities—driven by the extreme growth of E-comm + labor shortages.
This is mind-boggling. I'm doing a pitch event for startups to present to potential logistics/warehousing/supply chain customers and nearly every startup is wasting 25% of their 4 total min of presentation time on their tech company backgrounds & the accelerators they went to🤯
One of my fave COVID success stories (besides Ware): guy in my neighborhood in SF had to leave his job at a coffee shop. Started roasting beans in his garage down the street during pandemic, selling to passerbys. Now just saw him being carried on the shelf in Luke's grocery.